Reagan’s January 4 announcement speech set a dual tone. He warned darkly of oppressive liberal government, “neurotic vulgarities” on the college campus, and disorder from thinly disguised minorities—“Our city streets are jungle paths after dark”—balanced by flourishes of hopeful disposition. “Our problems are many,” he said, “but our capacity for solving them is limitless.” On Meet the Press, to a barrage of skeptical questions about how he could hope to escape a landslide defeat running on discredited Goldwater positions, Reagan patiently replied, “I think by simply telling the truth,” and he brushed off suggestions of political stigma from his opposition to civil rights: “I am just incapable of prejudice.”