Goldwater Reported to Have Alzheimer’s

Former Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, the blunt-speaking, conservative Republican icon, is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a published report. Goldwater, 88, who made a spirited run for the presidency in 1964, also has had five “tiny strokes” since he was hospitalized last September with a major stroke, the Tribune newspaper in Phoenix reported. The story, written by Goldwater biographer and friend Jack Casserly, was based on Casserly’s visit to Goldwater and his wife, Susan, at the couple’s Paradise Valley, Ariz., home early last month.