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"A Time for Choosing", also known as "The Speech", was a speech presented during the 1964 U.S. presidential election campaign by future president Ronald Reagan on behalf of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. "A Time for Choosing" launched Reagan into national prominence in politics.
Reagan preparing for his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office, 1989. Reagan's effectiveness as a public speaker earned him the moniker, "Great Communicator." ." Former Reagan speechwriter Ken Khachigian wrote, "What made him the Great Communicator was Ronald Reagan's determination and ability to educate his audience, to bring his ideas to life by using illustrations and word ...
Full text and audio MP3 of the speech at AmericanRhetoric.com; Full video of President Reagan delivering the speech at the Brandenburg Gate, courtesy of the Reagan Foundation. Ronald Reagan Signed and Inscribed Photograph at the Berlin Wall Archived January 14, 2015, at the Wayback Machine Shapell Manuscript Foundation
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine is a 1961 LP featuring the actor and future U.S. president Ronald Reagan.In this ten-minute recording, Reagan "criticized Social Security for supplanting private savings and warned that subsidized medicine would curtail Americans' freedom" and that "pretty soon your son won't decide when he's in school, where he will go or what he will do ...
In 1961, Reagan adapted his speeches into another speech to criticize Medicare. [88] In his view, its legislation would have meant "the end of individual freedom in the United States". [ 89 ] In 1962, Reagan was dropped by GE, [ 90 ] and he formally registered as a Republican .
After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor. And now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance of freedom.
It was Reagan's second State of the Union Address and his third speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Tip O'Neill, accompanied by George H. W. Bush, the vice president. The speech lasted approximately 46 minutes [1] and contained 5554 words. [2]
[2] During his speech, President Reagan outlined his plan for economic recovery, calling for large cuts to taxes and federal spending. [1] Some observers described it at the time as the most comprehensive economic proposal since President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his New Deal program in March 1933. [ 3 ]