It's My Party (2001)
“I found myself launching into a little peroration. “Ronald Reagan’s beliefs were as simple, unchanging, and American as the flat plain of the Midwest where he grew up. He placed his faith in a loving God, in the goodness of the country, and in the wisdom of the people. He applied those beliefs to the great challenges of his day. In doing so he became the largest and most magnificent American of the second half of the twentieth century.”
If any of my friends see the program, I suppose they’l...l take it for granted that I was overstating the case for public consumption—they’ve certainly never heard me talk that way over lunch on the Stanford campus or at dinner parties in Palo Alto, where we always lace our conversation with a knowing dose of cynicism.
The odd thing is, I meant every word.
In AD 578, the monk John Moschos left the desert monastery of St. Theodosius, set upon a hill or low mount near Bethlehem, to travel the Byzantine world.MoreLess
If any of my friends see the program, I suppose they’l...l take it for granted that I was overstating the case for public consumption—they’ve certainly never heard me talk that way over lunch on the Stanford campus or at dinner parties in Palo Alto, where we always lace our conversation with a knowing dose of cynicism.
The odd thing is, I meant every word.
In AD 578, the monk John Moschos left the desert monastery of St. Theodosius, set upon a hill or low mount near Bethlehem, to travel the Byzantine world.MoreLess
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