Just nine days earlier, our citizens had been kidnapped and held hostage by Muslim radicals in Iran. Unsettingly, the Soviet Union had already gained practical military superiority on Carter's watch as well.
But on that day a principled, brave man with towering leadership ability -as true a patriot as this country's ever seen- offered Americans the promise of a better way...
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