that president johnson gave the university of michigan. it was this bold era of hopes of the power of the states and the power sector could in the midst of this, october 1964 that actor who left ge theater and death valley days gives a speech for barry goldwater which is quite fact based. ronald reagan s speech is almost numbingly about acts and reality. it was a different view ken zi and johnson and fdr in truman but it was a reality base. in many ways american conservatives is in light from reality. the left could be at some point but they re not at the moment.
be seeing the harris/biden ticket together. they are set to deliver remarks in biden s hometown in delaware. harris will then have just a week to prepare for the democratic convention, but she has been laying the groundwork for this for her entire career. tonight, sources close to harris say they are overcome with emotion. one telling us, now, onto the hard part. david? mary bruce leading us off tonight. mary, thank you. and as we reported, even before today s nomination, senator kamala harris already achieved a number of historic milestones. tonight, her childhood, what shaped her, what set her on this path. abc s linsey davis on that part of the story. reporter: kamala harris was born in oakland, california, in october 1964. the daughter of immigrants, her dad from jamaica, her mother from india. it was her mother who she credits for her determination. our mother was fierce in her beliefon your acti yr words. our mother also, you know, she was all of five feet tall, but if yo
one week before american voters went to the polls in november 1964 to choose between lbj and barry gold water. you and i have a ran day view with destiny. preserve for our children the last best hope of man on earth or sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. even if you disagree with the political philosophy, even if you disagree with the case he laid out in that speech, it s funny, going back and listening to it now, i forgotten how snarkky and snide it was. it gets talked about like it was reagan receiving wisdom on stone tablets. he was up there throwing shame and insults. regardless of what you think of reagan, regardless of what you think of that speech itself. that speech from october 1964, it will always be seen as one of the classics in modern american
october 1964, he said that the paranoid style in the view of the person who feels paranoid, it is a global conspiracy, it is they re about to come after you personally, directly into your home, they have access to means you don t have, they control the press, they re the smooth sophisticates. you re describing the masons. there you go. i ve been saying, we ve got to worry about the masons. have you seen that big building in old town? it was mad and fevered as this conversation. except the difference now is the money. the difference is the ability to raise the money on it. yeah. and then, of course, and it is very much part of our history and our character. but now it s become a political tool in a way that is much more effective. i won t argue with anyone from louisiana about money and politics. good. however, however that s wise. it is true that, you know, we saw in the last election money doesn t always buy the result
became so iconic, the reason he gave that speech in september 19d 64, because in october 1964 police tried to arrest people for handing out civil rights pamphlets on the berkeley campus. those arrests led to this. see what s in the center of that? it s not a stage. a kid who the police were trying to arrest for handing out civil rights pamphlets is in that police car which is what s in the middle there. the police car is what mario savio is standing on. that s hundreds, no, thousands, of other people surrounding the police car, not letting the police take that kid away to be arrested. that kid was in that car for nearly two days. had he not been arrested, he would have just been a kid on sprawl plaza giving out civil rights pamphlets. because you arrested him, those became 30 years later the mario savio steps. that plaza became home to berkeley s free speech monument. it became not just some one kid s free speech effort, it became the free speech movement