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But it was in 1964 that suddenly he explodes on to the national scene as a political figure because he gives the speech. >> in this vote harvesting time they use terms like "the great society," or as we were told a few days ago by the president, we must accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people. barry goldwater has faith that you and i have the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions. >> the campaign was always run optimistically. and when ronald r...

So this is the week when the democrats will try to put their best foot forward when the convention kicks off tomorrow. hoping to outshine donald trump and the republicans in cleveland, some critics slamming their convention. the former mayor of philadelphia, michael nutter,

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Building nuclear weapons, more importantly, missiles to launch them at the united states. we were flying a spy plane over the soviet union called a u-2. >> im bill fox. united press editor in new york. a single engine u.s. air force plane with one man aboard went missing today not far from the soviet border in the rugged mountains in southeastern turkey. >> to a stunned and startled audience, khrushchev announced that an american u-2 spy plane was shot down over the soviet union. >> khrushchev m...

And then they got the teletype saying that for the first and only time a speech of an american president covered a complete page of pravda, the party newspaper. >> khrushchev decided to change his world policy. the strategy of creating tension all around the american empire was dropped. and he said to his colleagues, you know what? lets give him the test ban treaty. >> the united states, the soviet union and great britain promise to end all nuclear test explosions in the atmosphere, outer space ...

Anti-communism and more the social elements. >> we who are republicans have been handed a unique challenge ourselves and a responsibility to offer something that the people of this country are crying out for. they are crying out for leadership. >> i saw him make a speech in 1964 for goldwater. i said, theres the man that should be running for president. >> he has the same type of feeling with the people that john kennedy had, i think. >> reagan did a very brief run for president in 1968, but it ...

For folk singers. >> all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. ♪ >> folk music gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. popular songs should be sung because we dont do anything about say the bomb, you know. the whole situation come to an end. >> theres got to be an alternative to whatever ways of life are offered to them, you know? i mean, democrat, republican. and i would like to offer some kind of alternative, somehow, you know? >> folk revival scene ...

So, estelle griswold, who was the president of planned parenthood in connecticut, decided she was going to challenge this, and she began handing out birth control, knowing full well that she would probably be arrested, which she was. >> on the 24th of november, we issued two warrants, one against estelle griswold and the other against dr. c. lee buxton in violation of the contraceptive statute. >> the case changed everything. >> i think its very evidence that the law is unenforceable. i think if...

Our nation is bereaved. the whole world is poorer because of his loss, but we can all be better americans because john fitzgerald kennedy has passed our way. because he has been our chosen leader at a time in history when his character, his vision and his quiet courage have enabled him to chart a course for us, a safe course for us through the shoals of treacherous seas that encompass the world. and now that he is relieved of the almost superhuman burden we

>> if there is one public governmental personal universally respected for his integrity is the chief justice of the supreme court, earl warren. if theres one person in congress that everyone respects its richard russell of georgia. he has to get them both on the commission. there is, however, a problem. russell is a segregationist through and through and despises warren for the decisions that hes made on the court. >> johnson thought if they can agree on a verdict, that ought to be satisfying 90...