From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Wednesday, July 17th.

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 100 years.

Calvin Coolidge in 1924, Herbert Hoover in 1932, Wendell Willkie 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 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,

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