Barry Goldwater

===Retirement===
Goldwater said later that the close result in 1980 convinced him not to run again.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuxC6Ft92I | title = YouTube | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101104112917/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuxC6Ft92I| archive-date = November 4, 2010}}</ref> He retired in 1987, serving as Chair of the Senate Intelligence and [[United States Senate Committee on Armed Services|Armed Services Committees]] in his final term. Despite his reputation as a firebrand in the 1960s, by the end of his career, he was considered a stabilizing influence in the Senate, one of the most respected members of either major party. Although Goldwater remained staunchly anti-communist and "[[War hawk|hawkish]]" on military issues, he was a key supporter of the fight for ratification of the [[Panama Canal Treaty]] in the 1970s, which would give control of the canal zone to the Republic of [[Panama]]. His most important legislative achievement may have been the [[Goldwater–Nichols Act]], which reorganized the U.S. military's senior-command structure.