We eventually get to Berkeley-where the Free Speech Movement and associated radicalisms had completely broken down academic discipline-but before that, we have a never-the-twain-shall-meet discussion of which views might and which might not, under the tenets of academic freedom, disqualify a scholar from being hired by a university.

Richard Nixon assays his 1968 electoral prospects, the 1964 fragmentation of the Republican Party, the perceived failure of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society program, and the looming threat of third party candidates such as George Wallace.

Senator Mark Hatfield explains why he opposed Barry Goldwater's nomination in the 1964 Republican primary. He suggests the country evolve towards a parliamentary system and that politicians should be delegates ever beholden to voters.