In his bid for president, Reagan asked voters, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" He won convincingly and the GOP seized control of the Senate for the first ...
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View full speech here: http://millercenter.org/scripps/digit...Reagan focuses on the economy and ending inflation, while lessening the influence and growth of big government. He returns to passages in his 1967 inaugural speech for California 's governorship.
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So, as we begin, let us take inventory. We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which sho...
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Senator Hatfield, Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. President, Vice President Bush, Vice President Mondale, Senator Baker, Speaker O’Neill, Reverend Moomaw, and my fellow citizens. To a few of us here today this is a solemn and most momentous occasion, and yet in the history of our nation it is a commonpla...
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On the eve of our struggle for independence a man who might have been one of the greatest among the Founding Fathers, Dr. Joseph Warren, president of the Massachusetts Congress, said to his fellow Americans, "Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of . . . On you depend the fortunes o...
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Heavily criticized for his economic programs and federal deregulation, Reagan was vulnerable when he ran for reelection. But the Gipper won in a landslide, carrying every state ...
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George H.W. Bush ran for president on Ronald Reagan's coattails, but also tried to distance himself from what some saw as his predecessor's harsh social policies. Here, in his i...
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