walter brennan kissed my mother. anybody remember walter brennan? excellent. >> it is odd to think of walter brennan kissing your mom. kind of an old man. >> he is developing a speech. group of southern california business men go to reagan and his brother neil, and at executive in california. they say to reagan we want to put this on television to help goldwater so they put up the money and it was broadcast on nbc and it was an enormous hit that raised millions of dollars for the goldwater campaign and the republican national committee and goldwater loses in a historic landslide but david broder wrote for the washington post, one ray of sunlight in a dismal campaign was reagan's speech, goldwater's defeat was devastating for the republican party, the republicans are in the minority in the house and the senate and very few statehouses, few governorships and the republican party is functionally dead. it doesn't have a coherent philosophy. reagan now is embarking, traveling to california and says the group of business men come to him and we want you to

walter brennan kissed my mother. [laughter] does anybody remember walter brennan? >> sure. >> okay, the real mccoy. excellent. >> it's odd to think of the walter brennan in my mind kissing your mom -- [laughter] kind of an old man. your mo [laughter] >> but so anyway, he's developing this speech, and finally a group of southern, wealthy southern california businessmen go to reagan and his brother neil, because neil was an ad executive in southern california, and they say to reagan we want to put this speech on television to help goldwater. so they put up the money, and it was broadcast on nbc, and it was an enormous hit. raised millions of dollars for the goldwater campaign and the republican national committee. and, of course, goldwater losesi in a historic landslide, but david broder wrote for "the washington post," our old friend, that the ray of sunlight in an otherwise dismal campaign was reagan's speech. and, of course, goldwater's defeat is devastating for the republican party. i mean, there's -- the republicans are in the minority in the house, they're vast