Senator Eugene McCarthy's speech at the 1960 DNC

Our first live recording! Aaron Devine shared this at Imagined Therefore Limitless #3 - Oratory.

An excerpt from Aaron's introduction: "Eugene McCarthy was a senator from Minnesota and a poet, and he gave this speech at the 1960 Democratic Convention... One of the reasons that I chose it is that, if you listen to it, it sounds really relevant to today and today's time. And a couple of the earlier speeches that we heard - it's the same thing.

I think that speaks to how the ideas are there. The ideas have been there fomenting and simmering in our consciousness nationally for a long time and change really lags behind. But the thinkers are there. So I'm very hopeful and excited about this new President we have tomorrow, and how he's going to carry the ideas of Martin Luther King, who we celebrate today, forward to another step after one generation has passed. But I also recognize that the change that he's bringing is going to take a very long time. But I'm hopeful that the ideas are being voiced now. It seems important to me to voice these ideas. "