On the one hand he sounded exactly like mitt romney, if you closed your eyes and listened what he was saying, but then he had this sort of grassroots appeal where he talked about his parents struggles, and then he made a pretty strong argument for government intervention in terms of student loans and medicare. he talked about his family. exactly. getting lifted up by their bootstraps largely with assistance of government programs. i think one of the lessons you know, the gop this last campaign was very much win one for the gipper. it was about this demographic that reagan was able to win on. what they didn t learn was the lessons that bush should have taught them from 2004. it wasn t just about latinos. she got 44% of the latino vote. he also did very well among african-americans in key states. ohio, virginia, florida. if you talked to republicans now, they sort of see that african-americans are a lost cause in terms of republicans. they do talk about latinos, but i do think
In the world over again. this very conservative of california was going to be the republican party nominee. he had a marvelous smile a-wonderful way of speaking. people liked him very, very much. in 1988 everybody knew that george h.w. bush was going to be the nominee of the republican party. read my lips. reagan spoke at the convention it was very interesting because he evoked the memory of one of his great moments in the american movie. go out there and win one for the gipper. he was there for four-days. it is going to be on television. people will have an opportunity to partake of the political process. let s bring back chris wallace and brit hume. gentlemen, welcome back. as i mentioned 35 conventions we
In the world over again. this very conservative of california was going to be the republican party nominee. he had a marvelous smile a-wonderful way of speaking. people liked him very, very much. in 1988 everybody knew that george h.w. bush was going to be the nominee of the republican party. read my lips. reagan spoke at the convention it was very interesting because he evoked the memory of one of his great moments in the american movie. go out there and win one for the gipper. he was there for four-days. it is going to be on television. people will have an opportunity to partake of the political process. let s bring back chris wallace and brit hume. gentlemen, welcome back. as i mentioned 35 conventions we
In the world over again. this very conservative of california was going to be the republican party nominee. he had a marvelous smile a-wonderful way of speaking. people liked him very, very much. in 1988 everybody knew that george h.w. bush was going to be the nominee of the republican party. read my lips. reagan spoke at the convention it was very interesting because he evoked the memory of one of his great moments in the american movie. go out there and win one for the gipper. he was there for four-days. it is going to be on television. people will have an opportunity to partake of the political process. let s bring back chris wallace and brit hume. gentlemen, welcome back. as i mentioned 35 conventions we
American movies. go out there and win one for the gipper. [cheers and applause] it s four days, it s going to be on television. people will have an opportunity to partake of the political process. martha: very interesting to look back, isn t it? we d like to thank marvin calb, and edward r. murrow for that special report he brought us there. between the two of them they have more than 60 years of experience covering politics, now our very own chris wallace and brit hume share with us their earliest memories reporting on conventions, the republican national convention first, take a a look. 1964 my first convention, i was 16 years old. i got my job at cbs news on pure merit. [laughter] at the convention. maybe i got a little help.