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Like leaders before him, reagan changed the story of cool in his time. but the leadership always swings bag and forth. where it will come from next, was anybody's guess. ♪
Country ready for a change. >> everybody's just kinds of tired. they are tired of the war in vietnam. they are tired of economic difficulties. they are tired of generational conflicts. they are tired of the culture changing. often camming from the margins of society. >> many yearned for a simpler time, a time of strength, of values, of heros. >> what will you doing in here? >> now, that's a silly question. >> reagan was what americans wanted when they were tired of cool or fearful of cool. he was sort of the antedote to the political manifestation of cool, which was the counter culture movemen...
$154 million contract with los angeles leaving the cavaliersco president trump's pick to the supreme court is warning she'll oppose any nominee who demonstrates hostility to the roe v. wade decision that legalized abortion. now back to "the story of cool." ♪ new kind of cool emerged in 1960s america, the counter culture cool. it was a time of empowerment. people who may never considered speaking out found a voice and put it to use. the coolness of protest, leaders spoke with avengeance. >> they can't keep up with me! i knew a man so fast, slow motion cameras tape it to speed. >> he's my fa...
Song sung by frank sinatra, there's people appealing to him on television -- >> candidates need no introduction. the republican candidate, vice president richard m. nixon, and the democratic can debt, senator john f. kennedy. >> there's richard nixon on television looking fairly unkempt. >> our medical care for the age is much better handled than it is at the present time. >> at least compared to the physically cool and strategically cool younger guy. >> research has shown that if you watch the debate, you thought kennedy won. if you listened, you thought nixon won. the projection of cool, tha...
>> what king represented was a very polished and buttoned up type of black cool, and what the black panthers represented was a different kind of a static cool. this was a cool that had more to do with celebrating the urban esthetic. >> cute. i was very young at the time. i say around 14, 15, and that's where i really got started getting my first awakening as to what was going on politically. i became the first female recruit to walk and i asked to join. n newton and bobby decided we need something to distinguish us between everybody else and that's when the letter jackets came, wearing the ber...