the erie -- the eerie similarity is with the 2004 democratic convention when someone convinced john kerry to invite a state senator. barack obama was a state senator running for senator. he presented his keynote address. he was so unimportant that the major networks which still had , news conference during the convention all the time then, the major networks did not cover obama. 18 minutes later on cnn, they were saying, there is a future president of the united states. the eerie similarity is, one speech brought them to the national attention. reagan had grown up -- come of age as an adult as an fdr democrat. he loved president roosevelt. fdr, in a way, you can hear fdr in his words throughout his life. although shifted toward a small government perspective. the optimistic vision of the american dream. it sounded like president roosevelt was always present in reagan. when reagan married nancy, nancy's father was a far right conservative. when reagan started giving speeches for ge and was on the radio, he was really on -- i am not sure we would say it is the right wing of the movement today, but it was then. then,