Ronald Reagan Speech - 1964 Republican National Convention

[ChicagoConservative27]

Glad i found this. This speech could be given today. Enjoy!

[ChicagoConservative27]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt1fYSAChxs

[raybbr]

Better quality and a transcript (click the pic):

Ronald Reagan A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech")

[randomhero97]

Bookmarked, thanks. Wow, I didn’t realize the socialist influence was that great 44 years ago.

[Vision]

Up until the 50’s the three major parties were the GOP, Dems, and Socialists.

[Vision]

“This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite, in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”
- Reagan October 27, 1964

[M203M4]

Thanks for that link with the text. I had heard the audio, but never read the speech before. That speech is still the embodiment of everything the Republican party should be.

[Mike Fieschko]

"The Speech" was not given at the convention.

It was pre-recorded and broadcast on television a week or so before the election.

Transcript at the Reagan Library's page Rendezvous with Destiny.

(I'm old enough to remember the convention, campaign and speech.)

IIRC, the Goldwater campaign didn't pay for the television time. They didn't want it broadcast.

[randomhero97]

So I take it that the Socialist party just integrated with the Dems?

[FreedomProtector]

Thanks for posting.

[Vision]

They had to go somewhere.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Sorry about that. I thought it was at the convention.

[TornadoAlley3]

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