Gipper's Greatest Hits: Ronald Reagan Announces his Candidacy for President of the United States - November 1979

On November 13, 1979, the US economy was slipping into recession as gas lines formed around the country. Rather than inspiring and leading, President Carter warned of "malaise" and nagged us to put on a sweater. 

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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Gipper's Greatest Hits: Reagan's Impromptu Speech at the 1976 Republican Convention

"Throughout the auditorium, there was a palpable sense 

amongst the delegates that we'd nominated the wrong guy"

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Gipper's Greatest Hits: Reagan Deals with Sam Donaldson...

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Gipper's Greatest Hits: Ronald Reagan Independence Day Speech - 1986

President Ronald Reagan's Address to the Nation

New York City - Independence Day 1986

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

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Gipper's Greatest Hits: Reagan Bombs Libya, April 14th, 1986

"...for us to ignore -by inaction- the slaughter of American citizens and American soldiers ... is simply 

not in the American tradition.

When our citizens are abused or attacked -anywhere in the world- on the direct orders of a hostile regime, we will respond so long as I am in this Oval Office.

Self-defense is not only our right... it is our duty."

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Gipper's Greatest Hits: 'Morning in America'

Reagan re-election campaign's famed 1984 TV commercial...

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Gipper's Greatest Hits: Ronald Reagan Tells Soviet Jokes

These are really pretty good... 

 

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Gipper's Greatest Hits: Reagan Bombs Libya, April 14th, 1986

"...for us to ignore -by inaction- the slaughter of American citizens and American soldiers ... is simply 

not in the American tradition.

When our citizens are abused or attacked -anywhere in the world- on the direct orders of a hostile regime, we will respond so long as I am in this Oval Office.

Self-defense is not just our right... it's our duty."

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Gipper's Greatest Hits: Ronald Reagan's 1989 Farewell Address to the Nation

"A shining city on a hill..."

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Gipper's Greatest Hits: 1980 Reagan - Carter Presidential Debate

October 28, 1980 - Cleveland, Ohio

"There you go again..."

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Gipper's Greatest Hits: Reagan on How to Handle Hecklers

It had been a long day in the California heat... 

end of the campaign trail...troubles with the lighting and sound... 
and ole Dutch just wasn't in the mood for any crap: 

Only thing is... MSNBC has it dated as "1980"... but what's with the 1984 "America is Reagan Country" poster on the lecturn? 

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Ronald Reagan: "Evil Empire" Speech - 1983

Speaking to the National Association of Evangelicals

Orlando, Florida - March 8, 1983

REAGAN 100: Ronald Reagan's Famed Speech "A Time For Choosing"

With Gov Sarah Palin set to deliver the keynote speech at the much-anticipated Reagan 100 celebration at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, CA, there is much interest in the theme chosen for the event: A Time for Choosing, the pro-Goldwater oratory that launched Ronald Reagan's political career on the 1964 TV program Rendevzous with Destiny... and raised $8M in the waning days of Barry Goldwater's campaign.

I here present the famed Reagan speech in it's entirety, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA...

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Gipper's Greatest Hits: Reagan Crushes the Air Traffic Controllers' Union Like an Insect

"We cannot compare labor-management relations 
in the private sector with government..."

In August 1981, President Ronald Reagan faced down an audacious countrywide air traffic controllers strike that threatened to paralyze the nation's transportation system.

But the walkout violated a regulation prohibiting government unions from striking, so declaring the situation a federal emergency -per 1947 Taft Hartley Act- the President held a press conference in the White House Rose Garden to issue an ultimatum...

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