As the late conservative icon Barry Goldwater once put it: "The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."

Not long ago Peter Ferrara, a senior policy adviser at the Institute for Policy Innovation, seemed on the verge of becoming a conservative icon.

The book carries endorsements from the conservative icons Margaret Thatcher and Milton Friedman, as well as from Bill Bradley, last year's unfashionably liberal presidential contender.

(Meanwhile, one of the town's few conservative icons, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is finding out that governing California is a lot harder than it looked on "Benson.")

Senator Jesse Helms, below, North Carolina's conservative icon, called for $500 million to fight the global AIDS pandemic.

Barry Goldwater lost 44 states to President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 yet remains a conservative icon.

A moderate, he succeeded conservative icon Tom McClintock in the Ventura County based 37th district (formerly the 36th).

Phyllis Schlafy, one of the conservative icons who pop up in these programs, reports, "This country had a Government that was crawling with Communists."

He became a leading member of the pro-war element within the labor movement in the United States, speaking on platforms with such conservative icons as Nicholas Murray Butler.

A conservative icon, he ranks highly in public opinion polls of U.S. Presidents and is credited for generating an ideological renaissance on the American political right.