Ronald Reagan
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Good evening. I am here tonight to announce my intention to seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States.
I am sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints depending on where we have lived and what we have done. For me it has been as a boy growing up in several small towns in Illinois. As a young man in Iowa trying to get a start in the years of the great depression and later in California for most of my adult life.
I have seen America from the stadium press box as a sportscaster, as an actor, officer of my labor union, soldier, officeholder and as both Democrat and Republican. I have lived in an America where those who often had too little to eat outnumbered those who had enough. There have been four wars in my lifetime and I have seen our country face financial ruin in depression. I have also seen the great strength of this nation as it pulled itself up from that ruin to become the dominant force in the world.
To me our country is a living, breathing presence, unimpressed by what others say is impossible, proud of its own success, generous, yes and naive, sometimes wrong, never mean and always impatient to provide a better life for its people in a framework of a basic fairness and freedom.Ronald Reagan
announcement for Presidential Candidacy
11/13/1979
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