It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series,

100 years of 100 things.

And on this Republican Convention Week, it's thing number four, 100 years of 100 things. And on this Republican Convention Week, it's thing number four,

100 years of Republican convention speeches. And we're going to have a particular take on this

that I'll explain in a second, but just to look back, on Monday, we did 100 years of the American

right, and we played clips of some of the presidential nominees in the early

part of the last hundred years. Calvin Coolidge in 1924, Herbert Hoover in 1932, Wendell

Wilkie in 1940. You can go back and listen to Monday's segment on our website if you like,

and if you missed it. For today's segment, we'll focus on Republican convention speeches from the

1960s through recent times, and we're going to do this mostly with this take. Convention speeches

in years the Republican candidate for president lost, but that set up a future victory,

like for the next time around. So we'll open by overlapping with Monday's

show with one sound bite in common. We played this on Monday. We're going to play it again.

The most famous line uttered by the 1964 Republican candidate, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater,

who lost in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson that year.

Here's the line with some extended applause in the middle of it removed for time.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.

And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater in 1964.

And with us now for this episode of 100 Years of 100 Things is presidential historian

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