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President Ronald Reagan celebrates with win of George H.W. Bush to become president-elect.  Reagan gives a speech in the Rose Garden and tells an untold story about the Gipper.

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Reagan Celebrates Bush Win in Rose Garden 1988 appeared first on Witnify.

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See President Ronald Reagan’s acceptance speech on election night 1980, after he beat the incumbent President Jimmy Carter. In it, he referenced his conversation with Carter and the smooth transition of power.

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Ronald Reagan announces his run for Governor of California on January 4th, 1966.  The famous actor, who had formerly been the President of the Screen Actors Guild, ran for Governor and won.  He went on to become a two-term President of the United States.  Reagan was sworn in as Governor on January 2nd 1967.

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Ronald Reagan Announces Run for Governor appeared first on Witnify.

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On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a speech in support of Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater that launched Reagan’s political career. The speech became known as “A Time for Choosing.” This video shows a clip from the speech in which Reagan discusses the Democrat’s attitude towards the Soviet Union, saying: “But every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face. That their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand, the ultimatum, and what then?”

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Ronald Reagan Steps Into The Political Spotlight appeared first on Witnify.

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From the Nixon tapes, then California Governor Ronald Reagan calls President Nixon to give his support during the height of the Watergate Scandal. Nixon had just given a televised address to the nation announcing that Haldeman and Erlichman had been let go, and that John Dean had been fired. It was the most gut-wrenching decision of the Nixon presidency–save Nixon’s own resignation the following year. Nixon allegedly got drunk after the speech and proceeded to make a series of emotional phone calls. On this call, it sounds as though Nixon has calmed down a bit, but is still out of it. “This too shall pass,” says Reagan.

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Reagan Gives Call of Support to Nixon During Watergate appeared first on Witnify.

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American news anchor Sam Donaldson and his cameraman Hank Brown recall being by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981 outside the Washington Hilton Hotel where John Hinckley, Jr. tried to assassinate him. They discuss the events that led up to the shooting. Shelly Fielman and Charlie Wilson, other cameramen at the scene, all remember the sudden chaos of that day.

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John Hinckley’s assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan was on March 30, 1981 and Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity. 30 years later, Ronald Reagan Jr., son of the former president, speaks in 2011 on his concerns over Hinckley’s recent increases in freedoms as a psychiatric patient. He believes Hinckley should not be left unsupervised when he leaves the hospital and questions whether Hinckley has been rehabilitated enough to join the outside world.

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“I feel very young…”

Watch Jodie Foster’s press conference on April 2, 1981 following John Hinckley’s assasination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.  Hinckley, who began stalking Foster at Yale University shortly after she appeared in the 1976 film “Taxi Driver.” He claimed that his attempt on Reagan’s life was a ploy to impress the 17-year-old movie star. On June 21, 1982, Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was instead confined to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital.

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Jodie Foster on Her Ties to Reagan Assassination Attempt appeared first on Witnify.

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A significant moment in Cold War history: U.S. President Ronald Reagan on June 12, 1987 issued a challenge to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall, which the Communist state of East Germany erected in 1961 as a barrier between West Berlin and the socialist state of East Germany. Reagan’s challenge was for Gorbachev to dismantle the wall as a marker of his stated commitment to increase transparency and freedom in the Eastern Bloc and to urge an end to the arms race with the Soviets.

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In an interview with Larry King, former president and first lady, Gerald and Betty Ford, lament the death of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. Betty Ford expresses empathy for her fellow former first lady, and describes Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s love story as “one of the greatest love stories of all time.” When prompted, she also briefly goes into her experience of feeling terror for her husband due to the assassination attempts made on Gerald Ford’s life during his time as President.

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Gerald and Betty Ford’s PostMortem Commemoration of Reagan appeared first on Witnify.