walter brennan kissed my mother. anybody remember walter brennan? excellent. >> it is odd to think of walter brennan kissing your mom. kind >> anybody is developing the speech and finally a group of wealthy southern california business men go to reagan and his brother reagan and they say to reagan do you want to put the picture up? they put up the money it was an enormous hit for the goldwater campaign. of course he loses in a historic landscape but david broeter wrote for the washington post, the once ray of sunlight was reagan's speech. and goldwater's defeat is devastating to the republican party. the republicans are in the minority in the house and the senate and they have very few statehouses and very few governorships. in many ways the republican party is functionally dead. it doesn't have a cohere policy. the same group says we want you to run for the senate and he said no, i don't want to run for congress and they said what about governor? that piqued his interest. he started going around with local business and civic groups and other organi