frustrated. the book is called "before the storm" by rick pearlstein. >> thank you for all of you being here and the producer of the documentary on barry goldwater. >> and the american life. >> thank you all of you for being here with us. we want to live yeave you some e words of barry of the interviews we did with him in 1985. i don't think i have ever told politicians coming into washington, your reelection is not done yet or mistake or break the united states. do the best job you can do. that's what you are here for, to defend the constitutions for all

enemies and foreign domestics and be honest. that's all i tell them. >> how about the republican party leaders today? >> well, i think we have good leadership today. politics go in a circle. you will find the liberals and the conservatives, now, they'll run the place and running out of ideas and running out of people then the other party or even the republican party becomes the liberal party will take over. politics in america, going around in circles, i think that's great.

. we'll have more of the life and legacy of barry goldwater in a moment. coming up, a look of barry goldwater impact on america's conservation program starting in the 1950s. american history tv and primetime continues thursday night with a look of the life and legacy of 1968 presidential candidate hubert humphrey. it will be followed by the democratic nomination acceptance speech and our rewind of our

footage of the 1968 presidential campaign. barry goldwater accepted his party nomination at the 1964 national convention in san francisco. in his speech, there is the senator outlining his commitment to conservative values. senator goldwater lost to president johnson in the 1964 general election, winning only six states and earning less than 39% of the popular vote. this speech is just over 40 minutes and our coverage is from nbc news.

>> thank you. [ applause ]

i am very humbling -- my

running mate, wonderful republican who has served us so well for so long. >> bill and his wife stephanie. [ applause ] mr. hubert who's always watching. [ applause ] to my own wife, my family,

and to all of my fellow republicans here in america across the history of nation. from this moment, united and determined, we'll go forward together, dedicated and undeniab undeniable greatness of the whole man. together. together, we'll win. [ cheers ] [ applause ] i accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. [ applause ] i accept, too, the responsibility that goes with it. i seek for your continued help and guidance.

my fellow republicans are too great for any man to feel worthy of it. our tasks would be too great for any man. did he not have with him the hearts and the hands of this great republican party. i promise you tonight that every fiber of my being is concentrated to our cause that nothing shall be lacking from the struggle that can be brought to it by enthusiasm, by devotion and plain, hard work. [ applause ] in this world, no person, no party can guarantee anything. but, what we can do -- and what we shall do is to deserve victory and victory will be

ours. the good lord raise this mighty republicans republic to be our home for the brave and flourish the land of the free. not to plunge before the bullying of communism. [ applause ] now, my fellow americans, the tide has been running against freedom, our people have followed false profits, we must and we shall return to proven ways. not because they are old but

because they are true. [ applause [ applause ] we must and we shall set the tides running again in the cause of freedom. [ applause ] and, this party with every action, every word and every breath and heartbeat has baa single resolve and that's freedom. [ applause ] freedom made orderly for this nation by our constitutional of government. freedom under government of the

law of nature and end of nature's god. freedom balance so that order lacking liberty will not become the slavery of the prison shelf. balance so that liberty, lacking order will not become the license of the mob and of the jungle. [ applause ] now we americans understand the deal. we have earned it. we have lived for it. and, we have died for it. this nation and its people are freedom's model in a searching world. we can be freedom's missionar s missionaries. ladies and gentlemen, first, we must renew freedom's vision in our own hearts and in our own

homes. [ applause ] during the feudal year of the administration we shall replace has -- [ applause ] has distorted and lost that vision. it has talked and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom but it has failed and failed and failed in the works of freedom. [ applause ] now the wall of shame in berlin, failures block the sander's shame of the bay of pigs.

payers infest the jungle of vietnam. failures haunt the houses of our one straight alliances and under mine the greatest work ever erected by our free nation, the nato community. [ applause ] failures proclaim lost leadership, obscure purpose, weakening will and the risk of insig in citing our enemies to new aggression and successes. because of this administration, we are divided and we are a nation become, we have lost the case of diversity and the seniors of activities.

we are plotting along, rules without responsibility and regimentation without recourse. [ applause ] rather than useful jobs in our country, our people have been offer offered bureaucratic network. they have been given spec spect, and yes, even they have been given scandals. >> tonight there is violence in our streets and corruptions of our highest officers and aim lessness among our youths and anxiety among our elders and

there is a virtual despair among many. examples of morality should be set the opposite as seen. small men seeking great power have too often and long turn even the highest levels of public surface and to mere personal opportunity. [ applause [ applause ] now, certainly, simple honesty is not too much to demand in government. we find it in most, republicans demanded from everyone. [ applause ] they demanded from everyone no

matter how exalted or protected his position maybe. [ applause ] the growing menace in our country tonight to personal safety to life, to live and property and homes and churches and on the playgrounds and places of business particularly in our great cities is the mounting concerns or should be of every thoughtful citizens in the united states. [ applause ] security from domestic violence, no less than foreign aggression is the most elementary and fundamental purposes of the government. a government that cannot fulfill this purpose is one that cannot

long command the loyalty of its citizens. [ applause ] history shows us and demonstrates that nothing, nothing prepares the way for tyranny more than the failures of public officials from keeping the streets safe from bullies. [ applause ] now, we republicans see all these as more, much more of the result of political differences or mere fuistakes. we are seeing this as nature and destiny. [ applause ]

those who seek to live your lives to take your liberties and return for leaving you, those who elevate the states and down gra grade the citizens must see ultimately the world that can be substitute for deviividing will. and this nation -- [ applause ] this nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion and on the acceptance of god as the author of freedom. [ applause ] now those who seek absolute

power even though they seek to do what is good are simply demanding the rights of our version of heaven and earth. and let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most tyrannies. [ applause ] absolute power does corrupt. those who seek it must be suspects and uphold. equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the

emancipation. it leads to conformity and decemberi desperatism. [ applause ] all republicans, it is a cause of republicanism to resist concentration of power, private or public which -- [ applause ] which enforce such conformity and inflicts such desperatism. it is a cause of republicanism to ensure that power remains in hands the of the people.

[ applause ] and so help us god, that is exactly what a republican press president will do with the help of the republican congress. [ applause ] it is further the cause of republicans of the tyranny of man over man and a world at large. it is our cause to dispel of thinking and of a delusion of a world that's conflict that somehow mysteriously resolves itself in a world of harmony. if we don't rock the boat or irritate the forces of aggression and this is hard work. [ applause ]

it is further the cause of republicanism to remind ourselves and the world that only the strong can remain free, that only the strong can keep the peace. [ applause ] now, i need to remind you or my fellow americans, regardless of party, that republicans had shouldered this responsibility and marched in this cause before. it was republican leadership under eisenhower that kept the

peace and passed a i lolong to administration of the mighty defense ever known. and i need to remind you that it was the strength and the believable will of the eisenhower ye eisenhower's years that kept the peace and using our strengths. in lebanon and by showing it courageously at all times. [ applause ] it was during those republican years that the thrust of communism imperialism was -- it was during those years that this world moves closer, not to war

but closer to peace of any other times in the last three decades. [ applause ] i ne that's during the democratic years of our strength to deter war had distill. it is been during the democratic years that we have weekly stumbled in conflicts and timothy refusing to draw our own lines and telling our own people of our full participation and tragically ledding our finist men die on battlefields on mark

by purpose or pride of victory. [ applause ] yesterday it was korea, tonight it is vietnam -- make no bones s of this. don't try to sweep it under the rug. we are at war in vietnam. [ applause ] yet, the president who's the commandeering chief of our forces refuses to say, refuses to say whether or not the objective over there is victory. and, his secretary of defense continues to mislead and misinform the american people and enough has gone by.

[ applause ] i need to remind you that it is during the democratic years that a billion person were cast in captivity and they are cynically sealed. today of our beloved country, we have an administration which seems to be eager to deal with communism and every coin. from gold to weak and confidence and even human freedom itself. [ applause ] now the republican cause demands

that we brand communism as the principle and disturbance of peace of the world today. [ applause ] indeed, we should brand it as the only significant disturber of the peace. >> we must make clear that until gold is absolutely renounced and its relations with all inaugurations tempered. communism and the government controls our enemy of any man on earth who wants to be free. [ applause ] now, we hear in america can take

the peace only if we remain vigilant and only if we remain strong. only if we keep our eyes opened and keep our guard up can we prevent war. [ applause ] i want to make this abundantly clear, i don't intend to let peace or freedom be torn y our grasp because of lack of strengths or lack of will and that i promise you americans. [ applause ] i believe that we must look beyond the defense of freedom today to its ex tentension tomo.

i believe that the communism which votes and it will bury us and instead give way to the forces of freedom. [ applause ] i can see in the distance and yet recognizable future, the out lines of a world worthy of our dedication, our every risk, our every effort, our every sacrifice along the way. yes? a world will redeem suffering of those who will be liberated from tyranny. i can see and i suggest all thoughtful man must contemplate the flowering and the whole of your unify and free, trade in openly across this border, communicating openly across the

world. [ applause ] >> this is a gold far, far more meaningful than a moon shine. [ applause ] it is a truly inspiring goal for all three men to set for themselves during latter half of the toth the 21st century. >> joined by straight ocean highway to the united states, what a destiny. what a destiny can be ours to stand as a great central pillar, linking europe and americas and the vital people of cultures of

the pacifics. i can see a day from all america and north and south will linked of the mighty system. a system where the understanding of the past who'll be submerge one by one in a rising tie of prosperity and independence. we know that there is misunderstanding of centuries are not to be wiped away in a day. it is wiped away in an hour. >> we pledge that human sympathy. of what our neighbor to the south calls of attitude. noless than enlighten self interest would be our guide. [ applause ] i can see atlantic civilization

galvanizing and emerging everywhere. i know that freedom is not the fruit of ef soil. i know that our own freedom was achieved but centuries and by efforts of braves and why is men. i know the road to freedom is a long and kmchallenging road. i know some men may walk away from it. that some men resisting challenge except for if security of governmental fra terni organi -- i pledge of the america that i envisioned years ahead will teach and cultivation so that all nation will be encouraged

in -- my fellow republicans, we do no man's service by hiding freedom under a bushel of humility. i seek an america proud of its past, proud of its ways, proud of its dreams, and determined actively to proclaim them. our example to the world must like charity begin at home.

our vision of a good and decent future, there must be room. otherwise, our vision is blind t at the out state. nurtures incentives and opportunities for the creative and the productive point [ applause ] we must know the howhole good i the product of any single contribution. i cherish today when our

children once again will restore as heroes. the start of men and women who unafraid and undawned for the truth. subdue and make our natural environment and producing the engines of production and science and technology. [ applause ] this nation who has created people have enhanced this entire span of history should strive on the greatness of all those th g things as we as individual citizens can and should do. during republican years, this again will be a nation of men and women of families proud of

their roles, jealous of their speedometers a responsibilities. a nation who all they can will be self reliant. [ applause ] we republicans see in our constitutional forum of government the great framework that assures the orderly but dynamic fulfillment of the whole man. we see the whole man as the great reason for instituting orderly government in the first place. we see in private property and an economy based upon fostering private property. the one way to make government a durable ally ie rather than its

determined enmanyemynemy. [ applause ] >> we see in the sainty of private property, the only durable foundation for constitutional government in a free society. [ applause ] and, beyond that, we see cherish diversities of ways and thoughts and motives and accomplishments. we don't seek to live anyone's life. we only seek to secure his rights. guaranteed him opportunities. [ applause ] >> guaranteed him opportunities to strive to government performing only those needed and constitutionally sanctioned

tasks which cannot otherwise, be performed. [ applause ] we republicans seeking a government of responsibilities of maintaining a stable monetary and physical climate and encouraging a free and a competitive economy and enforcing laws and orders. [ applause ] thus, do we seek inve-- are we republicans defining government's roles where it is

needed at many, many levels. preferably, the one closest to the people involved. [ applause ] our towns and our cities and our counties and states, then our original compacts and only then the national government. [ applause ] that's latter ability built so that we must have balance between the branches of government and every level. [ applause ]

balance, diversity, creative difference, these are the elements of the republican equations. republicans agree republicans agree and disagrees on many, many applications. we have never disagree on the basic fundamental issues of why you and i are republicans. [ applause [ applause ] this is a party. this is a republican party, a party for free man. not for blind followers or conformists. [ applause ] in fact, in 1858, abraham

lincoln said this was a republican party tonight. i quote him because he probably said it during the last week or so. it was composed of hostile elements, end of the quote, 1958. yet all of these elements adpgrd on one paramount objective of slavery and place it in the course of extinction. today as then, no urgency -- and more broadly than then, task of enlarging freedom at home and safe guarding it from the forces of tyranny abroad is big enough to challenge all of our resources and requiring all of our strengths.

[ applause ] anyone who joins us in all sincerity, we welcome you. [ applause ] >> those -- [ applause ] >> those who do not care for our cause, we don't expect to enter our ranks in any case. [ applause ] and, let our republicanism so focused and so dedicated not be made fuzzy and of stupid labels. [ applause ] i would remind you that

extremism and the defense of liberty is no vice. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> thank you, thank you. let me remind you also, that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no urge.