country are being organized and spearheaded by the incredible, brilliant, intelligent, pass at studenionasrkland. so this play feels like a nice background song. >> i want to take you back, though. both of you, you will have heard this for the first time, to the reagan administration where larry speaks who was reagan's press conference man about this burgeoning crisis beginning to be noticed in society. and this reporter is not just an o ordained ordained episc opal ian priest. >> aids is an epidemic, 600 cases. a third of them die. it it's known as gay plague. it is. it's a pretty serious thing. one in three that get it die. i wonder if the president is aware of it. >> i don't have it. do you? >> you don't have it, i'm relieved to hear that. >> tony, you must have remembered that, right? what sort of memories, what sort of flash backs? >> well, i mean, the immediate response is rage, which is what many of us were feeling at the time. the callousness and the indifference of the reagan administration in the -- for the entirety of his administration. finally by 1987, he mentioned it in a spe