Posted on 06/01/2005 3:09:54 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Does anybody know where I can find a video clip of Reagan's speech closing the 1976 Republican Convention. I'm reading "Reagan's Revolution" and the author keeps referring to that speech as the turning point for the conservative movement. Yet I can't find it anywhere online!
Char
Excellent book!
"Hey! I am rugged and sturdy too!
When Hillary isn't beating me up, throwing ashtrays at my head, or scratching my face with her long nails....
"Hey! I am rugged and sturdy too!
When Hillary isn't beating me up, throwing ashtrays at my head, or scratching my face with her long nails....
I haven't seen the clip available for free anywhere, but you can purchase it from C-SPAN:
http://www.c-spanstore.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&cPath=6_13&products_id=74134-1
I particularly enjoyed the stories about the KGB agents who accompanied Gorbachev and how they had never known anything other than a uniform Communist system. Barletta tells us that some of the agents were even fascinated by simple things like a gas pump and a department store.
I hope future generations will never know what we went through, as Cold Warriors. To stare down an empire that created people who couldn't understand the freedom to create simple things like we know, today.
A nation that couldn't comprehend something like a Sam's or a Costco, where food is available in such bulk and mass.
To be lied to on an hourly basis about everything on TV or radio or in print.
But I think that last one has almost arrived...
Nice post. There ought to be a Reagan thread every day.
You sure you don't mean this one from 1964: A Time for Choosing
Mr President was, is, always will be the MAN!
I cannot believe it is nearly a year since his passing.
Trajan88
Another Good Reagan Book BUMP!
We will never see his like again. How blessed we were to have been alive with him.
Well spoken! How much I do miss and love that man...
pings
Me too - I get teary-eyed whenever I see his picture. I loved President Reagan.
Have you tried Reagan's presidential library online?
Years ago in Washington state I read about a couple of young home-schooled brothers who travelled to the Soviet Union just as it was crumbling. They saw long lines where people would wait for hours to purchase a loaf of bread and asked why them they didn't bake their own bread.... it never even occurred to them that they could.
These young American boys (still in their teens) taught dozens of Russians how to bake their own bread at home rather than stand out in the nasty weather for hours.
To think that nowadays posters dare to put the current little banty rooster in the same category as this once in a century leader is distressing.
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