My Thoughts
A long time ago, 1964, I was in my senior year in high school and it was an election year. The Republican nominee, Barry Goldwater was running against the incumbent Democrat Lyndon Johnson, who would go on to win a second term in a landslide. As I now recall, there were three Republicans in my home town, only one was old enough and eligible to vote: the owner of our newspaper along with myself and a fellow classmate, neither eighteen at the time; the voting age was then twenty-one. Recent events caused me to recall a speech by a then up and coming former Democrat, turned Republican from California, Ronald Reagan.