The Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956 was an Act of Congress passed to improve mental health care in the United States territory of Alaska. Initially bipartisan and uncontroversial, it became
First page of Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act.
Alaska Delegate (and later Senator) Bob Bartlett, the author of the original Alaska Mental Health Bill
Barry Goldwater
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Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's no
Goldwater in 1960
Goldwater as a major general in the United States Air Force, c. 1967
Goldwater's campaign portrait in the 1952 U.S. Senate campaign
Goldwater's informal press conference on August 7, 1974, following a meeting between Goldwater, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, U.S. House Minority Leader John Jacob Rhodes, and President Richard Nixon to discuss the Watergate scandal and impeachment process. The following evening, on August 8, 1974, President Nixon announced his resignation in a nationally televised address.