CNN The Sixties December 20, 2014 05:46:00
The birchers and leftover ku klux klan and all these other groups that were beyond the pale. >> the head of the ku klux klan came out in do you accept their support? >> we don't want the backing of the ku klux klan. >> that's a different kind of extremist, and my father would have none of it. >> a thoughtful address by ronald reagan. >> thank you. i have spent most of my life as a democrat. i recently have seen fit to follow another course. >> ronald reagan was an actor, but it was in 1964 that suddenly he explodes onto the national scene as a political figure because he gives the speech.