REAGAN, Ronald. Draft speech typescript, WITH EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS AND EMENDATIONS IN REAGAN'S HAND, Cleveland Ohio, 30 May 1980. 6 pages, 4to. Reagan's corrections in blue ink, a few additional corrections by another hand in black ink . In a cloth slipcase.
REAGAN, Ronald. Draft speech typescript, WITH EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS AND EMENDATIONS IN REAGAN'S HAND, Cleveland Ohio, 30 May 1980. 6 pages, 4to. Reagan's corrections in blue ink, a few additional corrections by another hand in black ink . In a cloth slipcase. "ALL WE NEED TO DO IS GET THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY" A brilliant example of the sharp, clear message that won Reagan both the GOP nomination and the presidency in 1980. He asks the Cleveland voters to support him in the upcoming June 3 Republican primary, but his target in this speech is the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter, whom Reagan never mentions by name. "Recently in Columbus, Ohio there were two of us making a speech at the same time, but not in the same place, and we sure weren't saying the same things." He attacks Carter for spiraling inflation, for increased unemployment, and restrictive energy policies--a message that would have powerful resonance among the "Reagan Democracts" and others suffering in the declining "rust-belt" economy of the Midwest. "We have an abundance of energy in this country, more oil and gas than we have ever used before, and all we need to do is get the government out of the way and turn the industry loose in the marketplace." He ridicules Carter's energy saving plans of asking Americans "to keep turning the thermostat up or down whichever makes us miserable." He ends with an aggressive attack on Carter's foreign policy: "He tells us that we have to sign the SALT II treaty because no one will like us if we don't. That's why he told us we have to give away the Panama Canal...I think it's time for us to tell him, we don't care whether they like us or not, they're going to respect us again." A notable absence in the speech is any reference to the ongoing hostage crisis in Iran. Reagan kept silent on this issue so as to not politicize any diplomatic efforts by the administration. He did not need to say anything. The public's frustration with the Carter administration's handling of the crisis was among the most important issues in swinging the electorate behind Reagan for his landslide victory in November. A fascinating document from one of the most important presidential campaigns in the 20th century, one that saw a clean break from the New Deal liberalism that had dominated the political scene since FDR.
REAGAN, Ronald. Draft speech typescript, WITH EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS AND EMENDATIONS IN REAGAN'S HAND, Cleveland Ohio, 30 May 1980. 6 pages, 4to. Reagan's corrections in blue ink, a few additional corrections by another hand in black ink . In a cloth slipcase.
REAGAN, Ronald. Draft speech typescript, WITH EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS AND EMENDATIONS IN REAGAN'S HAND, Cleveland Ohio, 30 May 1980. 6 pages, 4to. Reagan's corrections in blue ink, a few additional corrections by another hand in black ink . In a cloth slipcase. "ALL WE NEED TO DO IS GET THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY" A brilliant example of the sharp, clear message that won Reagan both the GOP nomination and the presidency in 1980. He asks the Cleveland voters to support him in the upcoming June 3 Republican primary, but his target in this speech is the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter, whom Reagan never mentions by name. "Recently in Columbus, Ohio there were two of us making a speech at the same time, but not in the same place, and we sure weren't saying the same things." He attacks Carter for spiraling inflation, for increased unemployment, and restrictive energy policies--a message that would have powerful resonance among the "Reagan Democracts" and others suffering in the declining "rust-belt" economy of the Midwest. "We have an abundance of energy in this country, more oil and gas than we have ever used before, and all we need to do is get the government out of the way and turn the industry loose in the marketplace." He ridicules Carter's energy saving plans of asking Americans "to keep turning the thermostat up or down whichever makes us miserable." He ends with an aggressive attack on Carter's foreign policy: "He tells us that we have to sign the SALT II treaty because no one will like us if we don't. That's why he told us we have to give away the Panama Canal...I think it's time for us to tell him, we don't care whether they like us or not, they're going to respect us again." A notable absence in the speech is any reference to the ongoing hostage crisis in Iran. Reagan kept silent on this issue so as to not politicize any diplomatic efforts by the administration. He did not need to say anything. The public's frustration with the Carter administration's handling of the crisis was among the most important issues in swinging the electorate behind Reagan for his landslide victory in November. A fascinating document from one of the most important presidential campaigns in the 20th century, one that saw a clean break from the New Deal liberalism that had dominated the political scene since FDR.
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