In a gimlet eye, Ted Kennedy reflects back on the halcyon days of the Goldwater Presidency.

Update: Jonah Goldberg helpfully clarifies the issue for the good senator:

Note: in this universe Goldwater was never President, alas. And in the parallel universe where he was, Sam Alito would still have been 14 years old at the time.

Another Update: Tim Blair points to a recent op-ed in which Kennedy "described Mao’s collected thoughts as '"the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung’s Communist Manifesto"'.

Well, I suppose power could grow out of the barrel of a fine doublewood-aged single-malt Scotch...