Remarks of Sen. Gold­wa­ter on the Lim­ited Test Ban Treaty before the U.S. Sen­ate, Sep­tem­ber 19, 1963. Mr. Pres­i­dent, after review­ing the remarks made in this Cham­ber, and the tes­ti­mony regard­ing the pro­posed lim­ited nuclear test ban treaty, I am impressed by three arguments–one in its favor, two in oppo­si­tion. In favor of it, after all is said and done, is a hope, usu­ally described as a faint glim­mer, that this may be the first step toward eas­ing ten­sion in the world. It is dif­fi­cult, if not impos­si­ble, to argue with a hope. It is an emo­tional thing; and in its soft and gen­tle glow, [ . . . ]

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