"Like Savio's orations that fall at Berkeley, Reagan's address was an impassioned dissent against what he saw as a complacent, if not morally corrupt, status quo. Like Savio, Reagan attacked bureaucracy, elitism, and the loss of individual freedom. But while Savio's dissent stemmed from civil rights, Reagan's was based on what he saw as government intrusion on the free market."
Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, Seth Rosenfeld in California looks at Mario Savio, Clark Kerr, and Ronald Reagan in the fall of 1964.
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