Bob Roberts
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:07:02
with a mom in a starched dress
and a dad in a seersucker suit?

:07:06
- You're speaking of my upbringing?
- Yes.

:07:08
I came to speak about the issues
but I will indulge your personality search.

:07:13
I was born and raised lower middle-class
:07:15
right outside the city of brotherly love,
Philadelphia.

:07:19
My father was a fry cook, my mother
a peacenik. I had no brothers or sisters.

:07:24
Make your judgements if you must.
:07:26
He was a model student.
:07:28
So full of life and energy.
:07:32
Some of the other kids didn't like him
very much. But I did. Very much.

:07:37
Increasing restlessness and trouble
with authority figures and classmates

:07:41
create problems for Bob in high school,
and by his senior year his grades have fallen.

:07:46
[Bob] I know what it's like to be without
a home. I was homeless when I was 17.

:07:51
I didn't ramble, I didn't roam.
No boxcars or park benches.

:07:56
No panhandling for me.
:07:58
I went straight to work,
earned enough money on my own

:08:02
to enrol myself in a school of my choice,
a school I wanted.

:08:06
That's not quite true.
Bobby enrolled himself in military college

:08:10
by forging my signature on a cheque of mine.
:08:13
[Father] He was happy there. He said
he needed discipline, more structure in his life.

:08:18
He felt we offered too much freedom.
:08:21
And do you know what? He was right.
:08:24
I was trying to instil different values in him
than the ones he has now.

:08:29
Let's just leave it at that.
:08:31
The '60s are, let's face it,
a dark stain on American history.

:08:35
At no other time has lawlessness
and immorality been so widespread.

:08:39
You're speaking of Watergate
and our invasion of Cambodia.

:08:43
No. No, I'm not. I see. I'm speaking of you,
:08:47
of lawlessness and immorality
with regard to drug use and sexual practice.

:08:50
- Excuse me?
- Disregard in the press

:08:53
for the sacred institutions that have
made this country what it is today.

:08:57
Is social protest disregard
for our laws and institutions?


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