their potential mischief. here comes barry goldwater, again, only more so and at this stage another such debacle could sink the gop so deep it might never recover. even seven weeks after he was elected, david broeder of the washington post wrote the first phase of the presidency is becoming clear. to what extent is reagan running the show and to what extent are preparing to govern in his name? a guy who was considered ill-equipped to be president of the united states and chicago sun-times said would destroy the republican party for a generation. in fact, provide, we just don t know what the voters are going to say. no, absolutely. you wrote whole book about this. james restin wrote the day after the 64 election that the goldwater loss buried conservatism for a generation. four years later you have richard nixon winning and reagan
[ robert ] we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom.com today and make your business dream a reality. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. we re just learning there are reports out of chicago, the chicago police department has made 175 arrests in grant park. grant park is where they have set up the chicago version of occupy wall street. saw some photos of it last night with tent and so forth. we usually check out big weekend editorials and op-eds and today we wanted to focus on the dedication of the national memorial to martin luther king so here s what we found, contemporaneous accounts. james restin, august 28th, 1963, coverage of the jobs and justice mlk march on washington and i offer this as an antidote to the clips we played before, someone in the moment at that time getting what they are saying. this is restin writing. i have a dream, he cried, again
and again and each time the dream was a promise out of our ancient articles of faith. phrases from the constitution, lines from the great anthem of the nation, guarantees from the bill of rights, all ending with a vision that they might one day all come true. he was full of the symbolism of lincoln and gandhi and the cadences of the bible, militant and sad and he sent the crowd away feeling that the long journal he been worthwhile. what a great piece of reporting, james restin, like he really nailed it, and i wanted to read that specifically because the flip side of the kind of hostile press role that we saw in that montage is that there is no question that at a certain point the northern white establishment press particularly, which had unprecedented kind of monopoly of the public s attention in the 1960s came to see what the true nature of southern segregation was, and that coverage really changed perceptions, wouldn t you say, bob? i absolutely agree with that. what i think is dif