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75-16-A7

2026-04-25T20:28:46Z

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=== Transcript ===
Someday it might be worthwhile to find out how images are created, and even more worthwhile to learn how false images come into being. I'll be right back.

All of us have grown up accepting, with little question, certain images as accurate portraits of public figures, some living some dead. Seldom if ever do we ask if the images are true to the original. Even less do we question how the images were created. This is probably more true of presidents in our country because of the intense spotlight which centers on their every move. I'd like to talk about two presidents and their images.

One was Calvin Coolidge, the dry unexciting New Englander who's more often than not remembered as a lackluster almost laughable figure who just happened to live in the White House for a while. The other is Dwight David Eisenhower, remembered with affection, warmth and respect for his great military accomplishments in World War II but for many his image as a president is that of a genial golf player who didn't stir things up much and who, in the main, presided over a country that rowed at anchor for eight years. The late John Kennedy who followed him actually campaigned on a slogan of, "Get the Country Moving Again." Are these two images true or false? Well I'll list a few facts and then you can decide for yourself.

Calvin Coolidge, the man H.L. Mencken said had been weaned on a pickle, was he a do-nothing president in one of those lulls in our nation's history? If so, we should have such lulls today. There was better than full employment, jobs were competing for workers. The cost of living went down 2.3%. The federal budget was actually reduced and some of the national debt accumulated in World War I was paid off. During Silent Cal's presidency, the number of automobiles owned by Americans tripled and a great new industry, radio, went from 60 million dollars in sales to 842 million. They laughed when Calvin Coolidge said, "The business of America is business" but we had true peace and prosperity. Those things were promised so often but given so seldom.

Then the Eisenhower years, the era of the fifties when we're supposed to believe that an entire college generation had stagnated, probably because they didn't burn down the library. Well Ike ended a war in Korea that had killed tens of thousands of our young men, and for the rest of his eight years no young Americans were being shot at anywhere in the world. He also halted, dead in its tracks, the advance of communism. Big government didn't get any bigger and a citizen could go for an evening stroll in the park without getting bopped over the head. Wages went up steadily but prices remained the same. Steak was 85 cents a pound and a gallon of gas was only 29 cents. You could be well dressed in a fifty dollar suit and nine dollar shoes. The work day and the work week grew shorter and our taxes were reduced. Suddenly more kids were going to college, more families were buying homes, never had a nation's wealth been so widely distributed and we were so strong that no one in the world even thought about challenging us.

Well as I say you can make up your own mind about the image versus the man, but maybe we ought to go back and see what they did that we aren't doing.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.

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<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>08/01/[[Radio1975|1975]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-252</TD></TR>
<TD>Audio</TD><TD>Yes</TD></TR>
<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>[[yt:jp_F4lUblKA|Uploaded by Me]]</TD></TR>
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75-08-A2

2026-04-05T14:42:31Z

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=== Transcript ===
For about 135 years there's always been a ship in the United States Navy with the name USS Ingraham. Let's hope there always will be. I'll be right back.

I'm still in London and still enjoying that special look at America one gets when one's far away from home. Yesterday I spoke of our constitution, the contract between us and our government, making it plain that government exists only through our voluntary sufferance. We agree to take whatever collective action is necessary if even one of us is unjustly denied his constitutional rights, wherever in the world he may be. Some suggest it's foolish to risk the safety of the majority to rescue one or a dozen or even a few hundred. If we buy that we sell out the rights of all of us. Perhaps we should follow the example set for us 135 years ago when our nation was young, so young it wasn't taken very seriously by the great powers of Europe.

It seems a young Hungarian revolutionary who had participated in an attempt to free his country from the rule of the Austrian emperor had fled to America to escape execution. He took out his first naturalization papers and became an importer by trade. His business took him to a seaport on the Mediterranean there happened to be in the harbor a large Austrian warship, and as fate would have it Koszta, that was his name, was recognized, kidnapped, and taken aboard the warship. Koszta's manservant had been told what our flag looked like. Pacing up and down the waterfront he saw an American flag, it flew from the mast of a tiny war sloop. He went aboard and told his story to the commanding officer Captain Ingraham. Together they went to the American consul, when the consul learned that Koszta had only taken out his first papers and hadn't yet been sworn in as a citizen of the United States he decided he was relieved of any responsibility for the man.

Captain Ingraham had a different idea; he went aboard the Austrian warship and demanded to see the prisoner. The Austrian admiral, somewhat amused by all this, had Koszta brought on deck. Captain Ingraham asked Koszta one question, "Do you seek the protection of the American flag?" he said. "Yes." Koszta replied. Going ashore the captain told the consul what he had done and what he intended to do. Meanwhile two more Austrian warships had entered the harbor. Captain Ingraham sent a message to the Austrian admiral to the effect that any attempt to leave with our citizen would be resisted with appropriate force. He indicated he would expect a reply by four o'clock that afternoon. As the hour neared he ordered the guns rolled into the sally ports, one tiny sloop against three men of war. Still no response. So he ordered the gunners to prepare to light the fuses and then the lookout shouted, "They're lowering a boat." and thus Koszta was delivered to the American ship.

Captain Ingraham then went below and wrote his letter of resignation to the United States Navy. In it he said "I did what I thought my oath required but if I have embarrassed my government I hereby resign from the navy." His resignation was rejected on the floor of the senate with these words, "this battle that was never fought may turn out to be the most important battle in our nation's history" and that's why there's been a USS Ingraham in our navy ever since. I hope there always will be.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.

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===Added Notes===
* Used on the Citizen Reagan Podcast
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Ingraham Duncan Ingraham] (''Wikipedia'')
* [https://www.afsa.org/sites/default/files/fsj-1953-07-july_0.pdf Quarter Deck Diplomacy] (''Foreign Service Journal, July 1953, pg 18'')
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Radio1977

2026-04-01T15:40:00Z

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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-6|National Review]]
| 76-11-6
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-134
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-7|Chile I]]
| 76-11-7
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-135
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-8|Chile II]]
| 76-11-8
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-136
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-9|Chile III]]
| 76-11-9
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-137
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-10|Labor]]
| 76-11-10
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-245
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-11|Murphy's Law]]
| 76-11-11
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-139
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-12|Day Care Centers]]
| 76-11-12
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-377
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-13|Charity]]
| 76-11-13
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| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-9
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:8
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-14|Argo Merchant]]
| 76-11-14
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-15|Government By the People]]
| 76-11-15
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A1|Redwoods]]
| <SPAN ID="76-12">76-12</SPAN>-A1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-140
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:9
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A2|Capital Punishment]]
| 76-12-A2
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-142
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A3|Electoral College]]
| 76-12-A3
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| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-242
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:9
| Yes
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A4|Panama]]
| 76-12-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-143
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A5|Brezhnev]]
| 76-12-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-212
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:6
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A6|Gasohol]]
| 76-12-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A7|Coal Car]]
| 76-12-A7
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B1|Human Rights]]
| 76-12-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-165
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B2|Jamaica]]
| 76-12-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-145
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B3|Recycled Theater]]
| 76-12-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B4|Environment]]
| 76-12-B4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-326
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:10
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B5|Education and Religion]]
| 76-12-B5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-359
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:11
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B6|Miranda]]
| 76-12-B6
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-146
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:13
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B7|Student Letter]]
| 76-12-B7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-148
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:7
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B8|Arson]]
| 76-12-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-149
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A1|FBI]]
| <SPAN ID="76-13">76-13</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A2|A Renewable Source]]
| 76-13-A2
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-150
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A3|Rhodesia]]
| 76-13-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-152
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A4|Lawnmowers]]
| 76-13-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-153
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A5|Cuba and Africa]]
| 76-13-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-183
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A6|Kidco]]
| 76-13-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-155
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A7|Keng Piao]]
| 76-13-A7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-35
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:14
| Yes
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B1|Punishment]]
| 76-13-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-399
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B2|Drugs and the FDA]]
| 76-13-B2
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-297
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:15
| Yes
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B3|Lord Chalfont]]
| 76-13-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-156
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B4|Recycled Streamliner]]
| 76-13-B4
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B5|Strategy I]]
| 76-13-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-110
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B6|Strategy II]]
| 76-13-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-111
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B7|Bill Niehouse]]
| 76-13-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-157
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B8|Postcard Registration]]
| 76-13-B8
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A1|Korea]]
| <SPAN ID="76-14">76-14</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-66
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A2|FBI]]
| 76-14-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-159
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A3|Voting]]
| 76-14-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-241
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A4|Public Servants]]
| 76-14-A4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-298
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:12
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A5|Cuba - Trouble in Paradise]]
| 76-14-A5
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A6|National Review]]
| 76-14-A6
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A7|Cambodia I]]
| 76-14-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-36
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B1|Cambodia II]]
| 76-14-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-38
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B2|Cambodia III]]
| 76-14-B2
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-40
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:16
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B3|Soviet Workers]]
| 76-14-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-146
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B4|Who Government Costs Money]]
| 76-14-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-160
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B5|Marijuana]]
| 76-14-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-162
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B6|Government Spending]]
| 76-14-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-256
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B7|Inflation]]
| 76-14-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-163
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B8|Russians]]
| 76-14-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-33
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A1|Privacy Bureau]]
| <SPAN ID="76-15">76-15</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A2|Vietnam]]
| 76-15-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-165
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A3|Oil I]]
| 76-15-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-318
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A4|Oil II]]
| 76-15-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-166
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A5|Cuba]]
| 76-15-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-156
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A6|Episcopal Controversy]]
| 76-15-A6
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
| Yes
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A7|Intelligence]]
| 76-15-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-124
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B1|OSHA]]
| 76-15-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-288
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B2|DNA research]]
| 76-15-B2
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B3|Indexing]]
| 76-15-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-272
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B4|Force Account Work]]
| 76-15-B4
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B5|Common Sense Bureaucrats]]
| 76-15-B5
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B6|Economic Fairy Tales]]
| 76-15-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-168
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B7|Health Costs]]
| 76-15-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-169
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B8|Names]]
| 76-15-B8
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-171
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:17
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A1|Private Property]]
| <SPAN ID="76-16">76-16</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-172
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A2|The Hatch Act]]
| 76-16-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-173
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A3|South Africa]]
| 76-16-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-185
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A4|Food Stamps]]
| 76-16-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-393
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A5|Man's Castle]]
| 76-16-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-291
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:18
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A6|Jamaica]]
| 76-16-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-196
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A7|Endangered Species]]
| 76-16-A7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-329
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:1
| Yes (with Blackout)
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B1|Socialized Medicine]]
| 76-16-B1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-366
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:2
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B2|The Principal's Principles]]
| 76-16-B2
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B3|Property Rights]]
| 76-16-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-167
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B4|Cambodia]]
| 76-16-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-175
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B5|Bulletins]]
| 76-16-B5
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B6|Spending]]
| 76-16-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-176
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B7|Government Cost]]
| 76-16-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-178
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B8|Quiz]]
| 76-16-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-179
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A1|Food Stamps]]
| <SPAN ID="76-17">76-17</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A2|Neutron Bomb I]]
| 76-17-A2
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A3|Neutron Bomb II]]
| 76-17-A3
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A4|Ukraine]]
| 76-17-A4
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A5|Tax Shift]]
| 76-17-A5
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A6|Drunk Driving]]
| 76-17-A6
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A7|Korea I]]
| 76-17-A7
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A8|Korea II]]
| 76-17-A8
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B1|Korea III]]
| 76-17-B1
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B2|Laxalt]]
| 76-17-B2
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B3|Human Rights]]
| 76-17-B3
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B4|Snail Darter]]
| 76-17-B4
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B5|Busing]]
| 76-17-B5
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B6|NEA]]
| 76-17-B6
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B7|Porpoises and Tuna]]
| 76-17-B7
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B8|Small Business]]
| 76-17-B8
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A1|Panama]]
| <SPAN ID="76-18">76-18</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-198
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A2|Cover Up]]
| 76-18-A2
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A3|Justice Department]]
| 76-18-A3
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A4|Unemployment]]
| 76-18-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-266
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A5|Medical Care]]
| 76-18-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-181
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A6|World Research]]
| 76-18-A6
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A7|TRIS]]
| 76-18-A7
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B1|Montage]]
| 76-18-B1
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B2|Dream World]]
| 76-18-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-182
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B3|Tom Hayden]]
| 76-18-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-183
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B4|Business]]
| 76-18-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-185
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B5|Inflation]]
| 76-18-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-186
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B6|Korea]]
| 76-18-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-41
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B7|Rhodesia]]
| 76-18-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-188
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B8|Foreign Aid]]
| 76-18-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-168
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A1|L.A. Times (Panama Canal)]]
| <SPAN ID="76-19">76-19</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-199
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A2|Panama Canal I]]
| 76-19-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-201
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A3|Panama Canal II]]
| 76-19-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-202
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A4|The Bible]]
| 76-19-A4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-409
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:2
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A5|Kettering]]
| 76-19-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-309, [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-92
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:3
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A6|Government Costs]]
| 76-19-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-189
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A7|Cuba I]]
| 76-19-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-191
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B1|Cuba II]]
| 76-19-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-192
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B2|Youth Employment]]
| 76-19-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-303
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B3|The Olympics]]
| 76-19-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-214
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B4|Government Can Cost Less I]]
| 76-19-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-193
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B5|Government Can Cost Less II]]
| 76-19-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-195
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B6|Pensions]]
| 76-19-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-373
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B7|Blackout]]
| 76-19-B7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-196
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:4
| Yes (with Endangered Species)
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B8|Furbish Lousewart (Lousewort)]]
| 76-19-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-197
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A1|Pot]]
| <SPAN ID="77-20">77-20</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-199
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A2|Rhodesia]]
| 77-20-A2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A3|Carter Welfare Reform #1]]
| 77-20-A3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A4|Carter Welfare Reform #2]]
| 77-20-A4
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A5|The Stalinoids]]
| 77-20-A5
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A6|Hospital Costs]]
| 77-20-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-200
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A7|Mozambique]]
| 77-20-A7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-186
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B1|Olympics]]
| 77-20-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-201
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B2|Tax Limitation]]
| 77-20-B2
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-202
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-1:7
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B3|Air Bags]]
| 77-20-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-204
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B4|Camps]]
| 77-20-B4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-205
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:8
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B5|The Military]]
| 77-20-B5
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-69
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B6|Property Rights (California Redwoods Parks)]]
| 77-20-B6
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-340
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B7|Congressional Committees]]
| 77-20-B7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-126
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B8|The Myth of the Medicare Millionaires]]
| 77-20-B8
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A1|Energy]]
| <SPAN ID="77-21">77-21</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-206
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A2|Carter Welfare Reform]]
| 77-21-A2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A3|Treaties]]
| 77-21-A3
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-51
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A4|Panama I]]
| 77-21-A4
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-204
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A5|Panama II]]
| 77-21-A5
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-205
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A6|Panama III]]
| 77-21-A6
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-208
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A7|Steel]]
| 77-21-A7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-209
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B1|Land]]
| 77-21-B1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B2|Taxes]]
| 77-21-B2
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-274
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B3|Energy I]]
| 77-21-B3
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-212
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B4|Energy II]]
| 77-21-B4
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-213
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B5|Equal Time]]
| 77-21-B5
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-214
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B6|Items]]
| 77-21-B6
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B7|Investigative Agencies]]
| 77-21-B7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-216
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-1:8
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B8|Drugs]]
| 77-21-B8
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A1|SALT]]
| <SPAN ID="77-22">77-22</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-75
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A2|Pushers]]
| 77-22-A2
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-217
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A3|Kearney]]
| 77-22-A3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A4|Alaska]]
| 77-22-A4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-336
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:9
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A5|Good News]]
| 77-22-A5
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-83
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A6|Youth and Crime]]
| 77-22-A6
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-218
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A7|Free Enterprise]]
| 77-22-A7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-220
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B1|Aid to Vietnam]]
| 77-22-B1
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-221
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B2|The Individual]]
| 77-22-B2
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-222
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:10
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B3|Taxation]]
| 77-22-B3
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-223
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B4|Energy]]
| 77-22-B4
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-225
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B5|Restitution]]
| 77-22-B5
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-226
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B6|Freedom]]
| 77-22-B6
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-227, [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-96
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:11
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B7|An Angry Man I]]
| 77-22-B7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-229
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B8|An Angry Man II]]
| 77-22-B8
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-230
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A1|Superintendent's Dilemma]]
| <span id="77-23">77-23</span>-A1
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A2|Capitalism/Socialism]]
| 77-23-A2
| EP4
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A3|Socialism]]
| 77-23-A3
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A4|Inflation and the Property Tax I]]
| 77-23-A4
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A5|Inflation and the Property Tax II]]
| 77-23-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A6|Public Employees]]
| 77-23-A6
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A7|Red Hen]]
| 77-23-A7
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B1|President Coolidge]]
| 77-23-B1
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B2|Education]]
| 77-23-B2
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B3|Christmas]]
| 77-23-B3
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B4|Bread Machine and Janeway]]
| 77-23-B4
| ???
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B5|The Incredible Bread Machine]]
| 77-23-B5
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B6|People Power]]
| 77-23-B6
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B7|Button Button]]
| 77-23-B7
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B8|America's Strength]]
| 77-23-B8
| EP4
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A1|Snail Darters]]
| <SPAN ID="77-24">77-24</SPAN>-A1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-231
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-1:10
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A2|Nicaragua I]]
| 77-24-A2
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A3|Nicaragua II]]
| 77-24-A3
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A4|Visas]]
| 77-24-A4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-232
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A5|National Security]]
| 77-24-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-233
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-1:11
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A6|National Health Insurance I]]
| 77-24-A6
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-235
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A7|National Health Insurance II]]
| 77-24-A7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-236
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B1|Social Security]]
| 77-24-B1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-370
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:12
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B2|Martin Luther King]]
| 77-24-B2
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-385
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B3|Coffee]]
| 77-24-B3
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B4|Automobiles]]
| 77-24-B4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-237
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B5|NEA]]
| 77-24-B5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-351
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B6|Kidco]]
| 77-24-B6
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B7|Apples]]
| 77-24-B7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-301
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B8|Herman Kahn, Futurist]]
| 77-24-B8
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|}

77-21-A1

2026-04-01T15:34:54Z

Reagan admin:

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= Energy =

<TABLE BORDER="0"><TR><TD WIDTH="60%" ROWSPAN="2">
=== Transcript ===
Cover up is the name of the game in Washington and right now the game is energy
and how to cover up how much of it we have. I’ll be right back.

The House of Representatives rammed through the President's energy plan pretty
much as ordered after listening to the frightening stories
the White House told of dark nights to come. They
almost gave us the day and hour at which the tanks would run dry. You wanted
to ask if that was Eastern Pacific time?

By the time the Senate took the matter up a little more common
sense was prevailing and with good reason. The doom criers in the Senate
filibustered, cots were brought in for the all night sessions and finally the weary
Solons came up with a compromise. It isn’t as good as it could be but at
least it's a program for gradual de-regulation of the price on natural gas.

Of course this now has to go to a joint conference committee to reconcile
the differences between the House and Senate versions so more compromise is
likely.

But one thing was demonstrated—the value of the cumbersome, slow moving
pace of the legislative process. It gives time for even the best hidden facts to
come out. Just think if we had acted on the White House declaration that we’d
be running out of fuel before the turn of the century—now only 22 years
and a few months away.

As the days went by we learned of a report by the Executive branches own
Energy and Research Development Administration, which was so optimistic about
future supplies the Whitehouse sat on
the report to protect it’s own credibility. The ERDA staff responsible for the
report was hastily reassigned to other duties and their chief
wound up walking a beat in flatbush. One of the optimistic utterances of the
now muzzled group was that at $2.50 a 1000 cubic ft. instead of Mr. Carter's
$1.75 the nation would be awash in natural gas.

With that hole in the script covered the House went forward with the Pres-
idents plan. But Whoops! Dr. Vincent McKelvey, Director of the U.S. Geological
Survey a career scientist with U.S.G.S. for 20 yrs. was making a speech in
Boston. He mentioned a 4000 yr. supply of geologically pressured gas in the Gulf of
Mexico, also a large amount of oil still to be found in the U.S. The Doctor is an
expert on geology but a rank amateur on politics.

The White House quickly covered with a C.I.A. report (you remember C.I.A.)
that the Russians would run out of oil by 1985 and start buying it from the
Arabs. Dr. McKelvey sincerely interested in helping out said “No the Rus-
sians” are floating on a sea of oil.”

Dr. McKelvey is no longer Director of the U.S. Geological Survey. He’s in an
obscure office down the hall someplace. In 98 years the agency has only had
9 directors. They are appointed by nominated by the National Academy of Sciences
and Presidents have always accepted them and not fired them.<SUP>1</SUP>

Dr. Joseph Barneo of Israel who was the U.N. Director of Natural Resources says
present estimates of recoverable oil are only 1% of what is there. The other
99% can be recovered by the law of supply and demand. In 1942 our estimate
of crude oil reserves was 600 billion barrels. By 1970 the estimate was 4 trillion
Russian Scientists now place it at 12 Trillion.

The law of supply and demand still works. We don't need an a new energy
department we only need deregulation.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
</TD>
<TD WIDTH="10%" ROWSPAN="2"> </TD>
<TD VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT="250">
=== Details ===
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="80%">
<TR><TD WIDTH="150">Batch Number</TD><TD WIDTH="150">{{PAGENAME}}</TD></TR>
<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>10/18/[[Radio1977|1977]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV-206]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Audio</TD><TD></TD></TR>
<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD VALIGN="TOP">
===Added Notes===
''from the book'':
<OL STYLE="font-size: 80%">
<LI>On September 6, 1977, Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus announced that Vincent K. McKelvey would be replaced by the end of the year.
</OL>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

77-21-A1

2026-04-01T15:34:41Z

Reagan admin:

77-21-A1

2026-04-01T15:33:24Z

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= Energy =

<TABLE BORDER="0"><TR><TD WIDTH="60%" ROWSPAN="2">
=== Transcript ===
Cover up is the name of the game in Washington and right now the game is energy
and how to cover up how much of it we have. I’ll be right back.

The House of Representatives rammed through the President's energy plan pretty
much as ordered after listening to the frightening stories
the White House told of dark nights to come. They
almost gave us the day and hour at which the tanks would run dry. You wanted
to ask if that was Eastern Pacific time?

By the time the Senate took the matter up a little more common
sense was prevailing and with good reason. The doom criers in the Senate
filibustered, cots were brought in for the all night sessions and finally the weary
Solons came up with a compromise. It isn’t as good as it could be but at
least it's a program for gradual de-regulation of the price on natural gas.

Of course this now has to go to a joint conference committee to reconcile
the differences between the House and Senate versions so more compromise is
likely.

But one thing was demonstrated—the value of the cumbersome, slow moving
pace of the legislative process. It gives time for even the best hidden facts to
come out. Just think if we had acted on the White House declaration that we’d
be running out of fuel before the turn of the century—now only 22 years
and a few months away.

As the days went by we learned of a report by the Executive branches own
Energy and Research Development Administration, which was so optimistic about
future supplies the Whitehouse sat on
the report to protect it’s own credibility. The ERDA staff responsible for the
report was hastily reassigned to other duties and their chief
wound up walking a beat in flatbush. One of the optimistic utterances of the
now muzzled group was that at $2.50 a 1000 cubic ft. instead of Mr. Carter's
$1.75 the nation would be awash in natural gas.

With that hole in the script covered the House went forward with the Pres-
idents plan. But Whoops! Dr. Vincent McKelvey, Director of the U.S. Geological
Survey a career scientist with U.S.G.S. for 20 yrs. was making a speech in
Boston. He mentioned a 4000 yr. supply of geologically pressured gas in the Gulf of
Mexico, also a large amount of oil still to be found in the U.S. The Doctor is an
expert on geology but a rank amateur on politics.

The White House quickly covered with a C.I.A. report (you remember C.I.A.)
that the Russians would run out of oil by 1985 and start buying it from the
Arabs. Dr. McKelvey sincerely interested in helping out said “No the Rus-
sians” are floating on a sea of oil.”

Dr. McKelvey is no longer Director of the U.S. Geological Survey. He’s in an
obscure office down the hall someplace. In 98 years the agency has only had
9 directors. They are appointed by nominated by the National Academy of Sciences
and Presidents have always accepted them and not fired them.<SUP>1</SUP>

Dr. Joseph Barneo of Israel who was the U.N. Director of Natural Resources says
present estimates of recoverable oil are only 1% of what is there. The other
99% can be recovered by the law of supply and demand. In 1942 our estimate
of crude oil reserves was 600 billion barrels. By 1970 the estimate was 4 trillion
Russian Scientists now place it at 12 Trillion.

The law of supply and demand still works. We don't need an a new energy
department we only need deregulation.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
</TD>
<TD WIDTH="10%" ROWSPAN="2"> </TD>
<TD VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT="250">
=== Details ===
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="80%">
<TR><TD WIDTH="150">Batch Number</TD><TD WIDTH="150">{{PAGENAME}}</TD></TR>
<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>10/18/[[Radio1977|1977]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV-206]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Audio</TD><TD></TD></TR>
<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD VALIGN="TOP">
===Added Notes===
* On September 6, 1977, Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus announced that Vincent K.
McKelvey would be replaced by the end of the year.
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

77-20-B3

2026-04-01T15:14:44Z

Reagan admin:

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= Air Bags =

<TABLE BORDER="0"><TR><TD WIDTH="60%" ROWSPAN="2">
=== Transcript ===
Now and then we read something about air-bags in automobiles to, quote
“protect our lives”—unquote, but do we know we’re about to be stuck with
them? I’ll be right back.

About 95% of our automobiles are equipped with seatbelts and we’d all be
better off if we used them. Their ability to protect us and even to spare us
painful bruises in minor, bumper denting accidents is a proven fact.

It could be we’re going to wish we had used them even if we never have an
accident. The Department of Transportation in Washington which succeeded in having
them installed in cars in the first place is pretty upset with us because we don't
automatically hook them up every time we step on the starter.

They did a lot of fussing about making it compulsory for us to wear them
but couldn’t figure a way to put an inspector in every car to make sure we did.
You’ll remember one of their efforts was that inter-lock seatbelt device that
rang buzzers and wouldn’t let you start the car until the belt was hooked up. It
only took Congress about two weekends back in the home district finding out
how mad we all were to get that changed.

But now the Department of Transportation has figured a way to save us in spite of
ourselves. It is the air bag. And they’ve passed a regulation that we have to
have them one whether we want them it or not.

At first glance it looks like a pretty good way to save lives in head on collisions
and incidentally that’s the only time they work. If you are traveling 22
miles an hour or faster and you plough into something head on or nearly so
the bag located beneath the dash instantly inflates and you find yourself plunging
into a soft balloon instead of a hard windshield so far so good. and
maybe even worth the $2,000 or so it will cost you over the life of your car.

They add about 200 to $300 to the price of the car when you buy it and
another 3 to $600 every time it inflates and has to be refilled. Now that’s still a
fair price if it saved your life. But it’s pretty expensive if it just happened to pop
open by mistake and about 7½ out of 100 do that. Then of course there might
be additional costs if it did that accidental popping while you were navigating
a curve at about 55 miles an hour. I understand they are experimenting to
see if they can make them so they don't extend above eye level. That of course
would be a simpler problem if we were all the same height.

Of course you wouldn’t have to bother with the seatbelt. Which is too
bad, because the seatbelt protects you f in a side collision or a roll over, even
a rear ender and the air bag doesn’t. Incidentally almost half of all accidents are
that kind. Very simply the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, has found
seatbelts are 5½ times better than air bags at saving lives and 2½ times better at
preventing injuries.

One thing I haven’t checked out is information I’ve received that the air in
the air bag isn’t air. It’s a highly toxic gas.<SUP>1</SUP> If true it’s something else
to be considered.

Isn’t this whole idea another thing that should be left to us and the free market.
If any of us would like to install such a devise in the family car shouldn’t that
be our decision to make? By what right does a government agency force us to buy
something for our own protection at considerable cost? It really is none of
their darn business.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
</TD>
<TD WIDTH="10%" ROWSPAN="2"> </TD>
<TD VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT="250">
=== Details ===
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="80%">
<TR><TD WIDTH="150">Batch Number</TD><TD WIDTH="150">{{PAGENAME}}</TD></TR>
<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>09/27/[[Radio1977|1977]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV-204]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Audio</TD><TD></TD></TR>
<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD VALIGN="TOP">
===Added Notes===
''from the book'':
<OL STYLE="font-size: 80%">
<LI>Air bags’ contents consist of two chemicals, which react at impact, creating nitrogen gas that then inflates the bag. One of these chemicals, sodium azide, is a highly toxic gas and is potentially fatal. See the Centers for Disease Control at www.cdc.gov and “A New Safety Look in Chemicals,” ''BusinessWeek'', June 5, 1978.
</OL>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

77-20-B3

2026-04-01T15:13:29Z

Reagan admin:

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= Air Bags =

<TABLE BORDER="0"><TR><TD WIDTH="60%" ROWSPAN="2">
=== Transcript ===
Now and then we read something about air-bags in automobiles to, quote
“protect our lives”—unquote, but do we know we’re about to be stuck with
them? I’ll be right back.

About 95% of our automobiles are equipped with seatbelts and we’d all be
better off if we used them. Their ability to protect us and even to spare us
painful bruises in minor, bumper denting accidents is a proven fact.

It could be we’re going to wish we had used them even if we never have an
accident. The Department of Transportation in Washington which succeeded in having
them installed in cars in the first place is pretty upset with us because we don't
automatically hook them up every time we step on the starter.

They did a lot of fussing about making it compulsory for us to wear them
but couldn’t figure a way to put an inspector in every car to make sure we did.
You’ll remember one of their efforts was that inter-lock seatbelt device that
rang buzzers and wouldn’t let you start the car until the belt was hooked up. It
only took Congress about two weekends back in the home district finding out
how mad we all were to get that changed.

But now the Department of Transportation has figured a way to save us in spite of
ourselves. It is the air bag. And they’ve passed a regulation that we have to
have them one whether we want them it or not.

At first glance it looks like a pretty good way to save lives in head on collisions
and incidentally that’s the only time they work. If you are traveling 22
miles an hour or faster and you plough into something head on or nearly so
the bag located beneath the dash instantly inflates and you find yourself plunging
into a soft balloon instead of a hard windshield so far so good. and
maybe even worth the $2,000 or so it will cost you over the life of your car.

They add about 200 to $300 to the price of the car when you buy it and
another 3 to $600 every time it inflates and has to be refilled. Now that’s still a
fair price if it saved your life. But it’s pretty expensive if it just happened to pop
open by mistake and about 7½ out of 100 do that. Then of course there might
be additional costs if it did that accidental popping while you were navigating
a curve at about 55 miles an hour. I understand they are experimenting to
see if they can make them so they don't extend above eye level. That of course
would be a simpler problem if we were all the same height.

Of course you wouldn’t have to bother with the seatbelt. Which is too
bad, because the seatbelt protects you f in a side collision or a roll over, even
a rear ender and the air bag doesn’t. Incidentally almost half of all accidents are
that kind. Very simply the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, has found
seatbelts are 5½ times better than air bags at saving lives and 2½ times better at
preventing injuries.

One thing I haven’t checked out is information I’ve received that the air in
the air bag isn’t air. It’s a highly toxic gas.<SUP>1</SUP> If true it’s something else
to be considered.

Isn’t this whole idea another thing that should be left to us and the free market.
If any of us would like to install such a devise in the family car shouldn’t that
be our decision to make? By what right does a government agency force us to buy
something for our own protection at considerable cost? It really is none of
their darn business.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
</TD>
<TD WIDTH="10%" ROWSPAN="2"> </TD>
<TD VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT="250">
=== Details ===
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="80%">
<TR><TD WIDTH="150">Batch Number</TD><TD WIDTH="150">{{PAGENAME}}</TD></TR>
<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>09/27/[[Radio1977|1977]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV-204]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Audio</TD><TD></TD></TR>
<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD VALIGN="TOP">
===Added Notes===
* Air bags’ contents consist of two chemicals, which react at impact, creating nitrogen gas that
then inflates the bag. One of these chemicals, sodium azide, is a highly toxic gas and is potentially
fatal. See the Centers for Disease Control at www.cdc.gov and “A New Safety Look in Chemicals,” ''BusinessWeek'', June 5, 1978.
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

77-20-B1

2026-04-01T14:32:28Z

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= Olympics =

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=== Transcript ===
As 1980 edges closer I’m sure many of us will find our thoughts turning to
Moscow and the Olympic games. I’ll be right back.

Some time ago on one of these broadcasts I told how the Soviet Union through
some several of it’s spiritual unofficial allies—you might in the absence of
formal ties call them ideological soul mates—was working to shut Israel out of
the 1980 Olympics. At the time I indicated a little unhappiness with the
International Olympic Committees tendency to waffle a bit when a stand on
principle is called for.

The committee was established from the beginning to be above politics,
absolutely independent of any and all governments, supreme authority and sole owner of
the Olympic games. Membership on the committee is pretty exclusive,
new members can be appointed only by recommendation of established members
of the committee.

Each new committee member takes a solemn oath to keep himself free
“from all political, sectarian or commercial influence.” Now that pledge didn’t
cause any problems in an earlier day but in the world as it is now obviously no
citizen of a totalitarian country could take such an oath. And yet the roster
shows the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Cuba and East
Germany represented on the committee by full fledged members in good
standing. Can it be we’re wrong and totalitarians will permit a certain freedom
in the name of sport?

No, it seems the International Olympic Committee solves this problem as it has so
many others. The oath was waived for these members. The late Avery
Brundage President of the Olympics for 20 years<SUP>1</SUP> said that “unfortunately there are
large sections of the world today where the form of government precludes full
independence of it’s citizens.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn puts it a little more bluntly.

But in 1969 it was also ruled that such non-independent members could
never total more than 10% of the membership. And last June in observance of
that quota the committee, turned down recommendations from Eastern block Iron
Curtain countries—the “People's Democratic Republic of Korea (that’s North Korea)
included. Now that sounds better—or it did until the committee decided to
boost it’s membership by accepting citizens from such bastions of freedom as
Mali, Mongolia and Libya.

It is not known whether they were asked to take the oath of independence.
Possibly they weren’t since the individuals chosen are members Presidents of
their national Olympic committees & are therefore fully accountable to their
govts. And those govts, are not exactly our idea of a Republic or a Democracy.

In Mali the power all of it, is vested in the Revolutionary Military
Council. In Mongolia it is the Communist party and in Libya it is Colonel
Qaddafi<SUP>2</SUP> the absolute Dictator.

One thing is certain, they are all solid allies of the Kremlin and will
be helpful in seeing that the 1980 Olympics in Moscow are successful, as
success is defined by the Kremlin.

I’ve always suspected the Russian Athletes do as well as they do because
they think there are real bullets in the starters gun. If there were I won-
der if the International Committee would protest.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
</TD>
<TD WIDTH="10%" ROWSPAN="2"> </TD>
<TD VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT="250">
=== Details ===
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="80%">
<TR><TD WIDTH="150">Batch Number</TD><TD WIDTH="150">{{PAGENAME}}</TD></TR>
<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>09/27/[[Radio1977|1977]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV-201]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Audio</TD><TD></TD></TR>
<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD VALIGN="TOP">
===Added Notes===
''from the book'':
<OL STYLE="font-size: 80%">
<LI>Avery Brundage was president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972.
<LI>Muammar Qaddafi.
</OL>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

77-20-B1

2026-04-01T14:29:49Z

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= Olympics =

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=== Transcript ===
As 1980 edges closer I’m sure many of us will find our thoughts turning to
Moscow and the Olympic games. I’ll be right back.

Some time ago on one of these broadcasts I told how the Soviet Union through
some several of it’s spiritual unofficial allies—you might in the absence of
formal ties call them ideological soul mates—was working to shut Israel out of
the 1980 Olympics. At the time I indicated a little unhappiness with the
International Olympic Committees tendency to waffle a bit when a stand on
principle is called for.

The committee was established from the beginning to be above politics,
absolutely independent of any and all governments, supreme authority and sole owner of
the Olympic games. Membership on the committee is pretty exclusive,
new members can be appointed only by recommendation of established members
of the committee.

Each new committee member takes a solemn oath to keep himself free
“from all political, sectarian or commercial influence.” Now that pledge didn’t
cause any problems in an earlier day but in the world as it is now obviously no
citizen of a totalitarian country could take such an oath. And yet the roster
shows the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Cuba and East
Germany represented on the committee by full fledged members in good
standing. Can it be we’re wrong and totalitarians will permit a certain freedom
in the name of sport?

No, it seems the International Olympic Committee solves this problem as it has so
many others. The oath was waived for these members. The late Avery
Brundage President of the Olympics for 20 years<SUP>1</SUP> said that “unfortunately there are
large sections of the world today where the form of government precludes full
independence of it’s citizens.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn puts it a little more bluntly.

But in 1969 it was also ruled that such non-independent members could
never total more than 10% of the membership. And last June in observance of
that quota the committee, turned down recommendations from Eastern block Iron
Curtain countries—the “People's Democratic Republic of Korea (that’s North Korea)
included. Now that sounds better—or it did until the committee decided to
boost it’s membership by accepting citizens from such bastions of freedom as
Mali, Mongolia and Libya.

It is not known whether they were asked to take the oath of independence.
Possibly they weren’t since the individuals chosen are members Presidents of
their national Olympic committees & are therefore fully accountable to their
govts. And those govts, are not exactly our idea of a Republic or a Democracy.

In Mali the power all of it, is vested in the Revolutionary Military
Council. In Mongolia it is the Communist party and in Libya it is Col.
Qaddafi<SUP>2</SUP> the absolute Dictator.

One thing is certain, they are all solid allies of the Kremlin and will
be helpful in seeing that the 1980 Olympics in Moscow are successful, as
success is defined by the Kremlin.

I’ve always suspected the Russian Athletes do as well as they do because
they think there are real bullets in the starters gun. If there were I won-
der if the International Committee would protest.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
</TD>
<TD WIDTH="10%" ROWSPAN="2"> </TD>
<TD VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT="250">
=== Details ===
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="80%">
<TR><TD WIDTH="150">Batch Number</TD><TD WIDTH="150">{{PAGENAME}}</TD></TR>
<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>09/27/[[Radio1977|1977]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV-201]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Audio</TD><TD></TD></TR>
<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD VALIGN="TOP">
===Added Notes===
* Avery Brundage was president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972.
* Muammar Qaddafi.
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

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<SPAN style="width: 240px" STYLE="font-size: 120%">Name</div>
!
<SPAN style="width: 60px>Batch/ Record Number</div>
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<SPAN style="width: 60px>Podcast</div>
!
<SPAN style="width: 65px>Audio Available</div>
!
<SPAN style="width: 70px>Transcript</div>
!
<SPAN style="width: 70px>Book - page</div>
!
<SPAN style="width: 70px>Audiobook (Disk:Track)</div>
!
<SPAN style="width: 60px>Youtube</div>
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-A1|Strategic Stockpiles]]
| <SPAN ID="76-08">76-08</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-A2|Farewell Speeches]]
| 76-08-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-64
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-A3|Campaign Law Violated?]]
| 76-08-A3
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-A4|Panama]]
| 76-08-A4
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-A5|Television]]
| 76-08-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-68
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:5
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-A6|Korea]]
| 76-08-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-107
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-A7|People Power]]
| 76-08-A7
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-B1|Tax Limit]]
| 76-08-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-98
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-B2|Televisions and Profits]]
| 76-08-B2
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-B3|Health Care]]
| 76-08-B3
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-B4|Rapid Transit]]
| 76-08-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-307
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-B5|Junk Food]]
| 76-08-B5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:6
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-B6|Building Codes]]
| 76-08-B6
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-B7|OSHA]]
| 76-08-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-109
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-08-B8|More About OHSA]]
| 76-08-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-110
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-A1|The Real China?]]
| <SPAN ID="76-09">76-09</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-111
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-A2|Capital Gains]]
| 76-09-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-113
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-A3|More About Taxes]]
| 76-09-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-271
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-A4|Postcard Registration]]
| 76-09-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-244
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-A5|Poverty]]
| 76-09-A5
| ???
| Not Yet
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-391
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-A6|Amnesty]]
| 76-09-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-114, [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-53
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-A7|Foundations]]
| 76-09-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-116
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-B1|Conservation]]
| 76-09-B1
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-B2|China]]
| 76-09-B2
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-B3|Tom Wolfe's New Book]]
| 76-09-B3
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-B4|Torrijos, Human Rights and Money Lenders]]
| 76-09-B4
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-B5|IBM]]
| 76-09-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-118
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-B6|Congress]]
| 76-09-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-119
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-B7|Civil Service]]
| 76-09-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-237
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-09-B8|Rhodesia]]
| 76-09-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-179
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-A1|Minimum Wage]]
| <SPAN ID="76-10">76-10</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-121
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-A2|Taxes I]]
| 76-10-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-122
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-A3|Taxes II]]
| 76-10-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-123
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-A4|Taxes III]]
| 76-10-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-281
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-A5|Agriculture Day]]
| 76-10-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-A6|Update on Cuba]]
| 76-10-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-A7|Cuba II]]
| 76-10-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-125
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-B1|England]]
| 76-10-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-B2|Seabrook]]
| 76-10-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-127
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-B3|Germany]]
| 76-10-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-B4|Added Inflation]]
| 76-10-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-128
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-B5|Census]]
| 76-10-B5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-239
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:7
| Yes
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-B6|Sports and Religion]]
| 76-10-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-130, [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-23
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-B7|Amtrak]]
| 76-10-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-10-B8|Free Press and Property Rights]]
| 76-10-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-003-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-1|Economic Plan]]
| <SPAN ID="76-11">76-11</SPAN>-1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-131
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-2|Equal Rights Amendment]]
| 76-11-2
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-3|Taxes]]
| 76-11-3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-133
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-4|Intelligence]]
| 76-11-4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-117
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-5|Saccharin]]
| 76-11-5
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-6|National Review]]
| 76-11-6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-134
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-7|Chile I]]
| 76-11-7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-135
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-8|Chile II]]
| 76-11-8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-136
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-9|Chile III]]
| 76-11-9
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-137
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-10|Labor]]
| 76-11-10
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-245
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-11|Murphy's Law]]
| 76-11-11
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-139
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-12|Day Care Centers]]
| 76-11-12
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-377
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-13|Charity]]
| 76-11-13
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-9
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:8
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-14|Argo Merchant]]
| 76-11-14
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-11-15|Government By the People]]
| 76-11-15
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A1|Redwoods]]
| <SPAN ID="76-12">76-12</SPAN>-A1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-140
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:9
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A2|Capital Punishment]]
| 76-12-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-142
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A3|Electoral College]]
| 76-12-A3
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-242
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:9
| Yes
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A4|Panama]]
| 76-12-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-143
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A5|Brezhnev]]
| 76-12-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-212
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:6
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A6|Gasohol]]
| 76-12-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-A7|Coal Car]]
| 76-12-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B1|Human Rights]]
| 76-12-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-165
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B2|Jamaica]]
| 76-12-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-145
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B3|Recycled Theater]]
| 76-12-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B4|Environment]]
| 76-12-B4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-326
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:10
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B5|Education and Religion]]
| 76-12-B5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-359
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:11
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B6|Miranda]]
| 76-12-B6
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-146
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:13
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B7|Student Letter]]
| 76-12-B7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-148
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:7
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-12-B8|Arson]]
| 76-12-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-149
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A1|FBI]]
| <SPAN ID="76-13">76-13</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A2|A Renewable Source]]
| 76-13-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-150
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A3|Rhodesia]]
| 76-13-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-152
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A4|Lawnmowers]]
| 76-13-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-153
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A5|Cuba and Africa]]
| 76-13-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-183
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A6|Kidco]]
| 76-13-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-155
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-A7|Keng Piao]]
| 76-13-A7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-35
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:14
| Yes
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B1|Punishment]]
| 76-13-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-399
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B2|Drugs and the FDA]]
| 76-13-B2
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-297
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:15
| Yes
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B3|Lord Chalfont]]
| 76-13-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-156
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B4|Recycled Streamliner]]
| 76-13-B4
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B5|Strategy I]]
| 76-13-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-110
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B6|Strategy II]]
| 76-13-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-111
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B7|Bill Niehouse]]
| 76-13-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-157
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-13-B8|Postcard Registration]]
| 76-13-B8
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-004-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A1|Korea]]
| <SPAN ID="76-14">76-14</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-66
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A2|FBI]]
| 76-14-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-159
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A3|Voting]]
| 76-14-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-241
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A4|Public Servants]]
| 76-14-A4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-298
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:12
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A5|Cuba - Trouble in Paradise]]
| 76-14-A5
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A6|National Review]]
| 76-14-A6
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-A7|Cambodia I]]
| 76-14-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-36
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B1|Cambodia II]]
| 76-14-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-38
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B2|Cambodia III]]
| 76-14-B2
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-40
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:16
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B3|Soviet Workers]]
| 76-14-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-146
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B4|Who Government Costs Money]]
| 76-14-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-160
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B5|Marijuana]]
| 76-14-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-162
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B6|Government Spending]]
| 76-14-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-256
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B7|Inflation]]
| 76-14-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-163
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-14-B8|Russians]]
| 76-14-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-33
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A1|Privacy Bureau]]
| <SPAN ID="76-15">76-15</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A2|Vietnam]]
| 76-15-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-165
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A3|Oil I]]
| 76-15-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-318
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A4|Oil II]]
| 76-15-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-166
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A5|Cuba]]
| 76-15-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-156
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A6|Episcopal Controversy]]
| 76-15-A6
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
| Yes
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-A7|Intelligence]]
| 76-15-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-124
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B1|OSHA]]
| 76-15-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-288
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B2|DNA research]]
| 76-15-B2
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B3|Indexing]]
| 76-15-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-272
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B4|Force Account Work]]
| 76-15-B4
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B5|Common Sense Bureaucrats]]
| 76-15-B5
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B6|Economic Fairy Tales]]
| 76-15-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-168
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B7|Health Costs]]
| 76-15-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-169
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-15-B8|Names]]
| 76-15-B8
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-171
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:17
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A1|Private Property]]
| <SPAN ID="76-16">76-16</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-172
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A2|The Hatch Act]]
| 76-16-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-173
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A3|South Africa]]
| 76-16-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-185
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A4|Food Stamps]]
| 76-16-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-393
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A5|Man's Castle]]
| 76-16-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-291
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-3:18
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A6|Jamaica]]
| 76-16-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-196
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-A7|Endangered Species]]
| 76-16-A7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-329
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:1
| Yes (with Blackout)
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B1|Socialized Medicine]]
| 76-16-B1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-366
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:2
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B2|The Principal's Principles]]
| 76-16-B2
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B3|Property Rights]]
| 76-16-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-167
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B4|Cambodia]]
| 76-16-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-175
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B5|Bulletins]]
| 76-16-B5
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-005-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B6|Spending]]
| 76-16-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-176
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B7|Government Cost]]
| 76-16-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-178
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-16-B8|Quiz]]
| 76-16-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-179
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A1|Food Stamps]]
| <SPAN ID="76-17">76-17</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A2|Neutron Bomb I]]
| 76-17-A2
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A3|Neutron Bomb II]]
| 76-17-A3
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A4|Ukraine]]
| 76-17-A4
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A5|Tax Shift]]
| 76-17-A5
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A6|Drunk Driving]]
| 76-17-A6
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A7|Korea I]]
| 76-17-A7
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-A8|Korea II]]
| 76-17-A8
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B1|Korea III]]
| 76-17-B1
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B2|Laxalt]]
| 76-17-B2
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B3|Human Rights]]
| 76-17-B3
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B4|Snail Darter]]
| 76-17-B4
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B5|Busing]]
| 76-17-B5
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B6|NEA]]
| 76-17-B6
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B7|Porpoises and Tuna]]
| 76-17-B7
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-17-B8|Small Business]]
| 76-17-B8
|
|
|Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A1|Panama]]
| <SPAN ID="76-18">76-18</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-198
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A2|Cover Up]]
| 76-18-A2
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A3|Justice Department]]
| 76-18-A3
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A4|Unemployment]]
| 76-18-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-266
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A5|Medical Care]]
| 76-18-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-181
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A6|World Research]]
| 76-18-A6
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-A7|TRIS]]
| 76-18-A7
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B1|Montage]]
| 76-18-B1
|
|
| Yes
|[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-006-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B2|Dream World]]
| 76-18-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-182
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B3|Tom Hayden]]
| 76-18-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-183
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B4|Business]]
| 76-18-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-185
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B5|Inflation]]
| 76-18-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-186
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B6|Korea]]
| 76-18-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-41
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B7|Rhodesia]]
| 76-18-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-188
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-18-B8|Foreign Aid]]
| 76-18-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-168
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A1|L.A. Times (Panama Canal)]]
| <SPAN ID="76-19">76-19</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-199
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A2|Panama Canal I]]
| 76-19-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-201
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A3|Panama Canal II]]
| 76-19-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-202
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A4|The Bible]]
| 76-19-A4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-409
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:2
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A5|Kettering]]
| 76-19-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-309, [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-92
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:3
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A6|Government Costs]]
| 76-19-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-189
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-A7|Cuba I]]
| 76-19-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-191
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B1|Cuba II]]
| 76-19-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-192
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B2|Youth Employment]]
| 76-19-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-303
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B3|The Olympics]]
| 76-19-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-214
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B4|Government Can Cost Less I]]
| 76-19-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-193
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B5|Government Can Cost Less II]]
| 76-19-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-195
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B6|Pensions]]
| 76-19-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-373
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B7|Blackout]]
| 76-19-B7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-196
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:4
| Yes (with Endangered Species)
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[76-19-B8|Furbish Lousewart (Lousewort)]]
| 76-19-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-197
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A1|Pot]]
| <SPAN ID="77-20">77-20</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-199
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A2|Rhodesia]]
| 77-20-A2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A3|Carter Welfare Reform #1]]
| 77-20-A3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A4|Carter Welfare Reform #2]]
| 77-20-A4
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A5|The Stalinoids]]
| 77-20-A5
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A6|Hospital Costs]]
| 77-20-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-200
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-A7|Mozambique]]
| 77-20-A7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-186
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B1|Olympics]]
| 77-20-B1
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-201
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B2|Tax Limitation]]
| 77-20-B2
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-202
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-1:7
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B3|Air Bags]]
| 77-20-B3
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-204
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B4|Camps]]
| 77-20-B4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-205
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:8
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B5|The Military]]
| 77-20-B5
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-69
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B6|Property Rights (California Redwoods Parks)]]
| 77-20-B6
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-340
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B7|Congressional Committees]]
| 77-20-B7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-126
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-20-B8|The Myth of the Medicare Millionaires]]
| 77-20-B8
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A1|Energy]]
| <SPAN ID="77-21">77-21</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-206
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A2|Carter Welfare Reform]]
| 77-21-A2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A3|Treaties]]
| 77-21-A3
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-51
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A4|Panama I]]
| 77-21-A4
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-204
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A5|Panama II]]
| 77-21-A5
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-205
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A6|Panama III]]
| 77-21-A6
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-208
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-A7|Steel]]
| 77-21-A7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-209
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B1|Land]]
| 77-21-B1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B2|Taxes]]
| 77-21-B2
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-274
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B3|Energy I]]
| 77-21-B3
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-212
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B4|Energy II]]
| 77-21-B4
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-213
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B5|Equal Time]]
| 77-21-B5
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-214
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B6|Items]]
| 77-21-B6
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B7|Investigative Agencies]]
| 77-21-B7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-216
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-1:8
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-21-B8|Drugs]]
| 77-21-B8
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A1|SALT]]
| <SPAN ID="77-22">77-22</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-75
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A2|Pushers]]
| 77-22-A2
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-217
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A3|Kearney]]
| 77-22-A3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A4|Alaska]]
| 77-22-A4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-336
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:9
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A5|Good News]]
| 77-22-A5
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-83
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A6|Youth and Crime]]
| 77-22-A6
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-218
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-A7|Free Enterprise]]
| 77-22-A7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-220
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B1|Aid to Vietnam]]
| 77-22-B1
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-221
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B2|The Individual]]
| 77-22-B2
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-222
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:10
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B3|Taxation]]
| 77-22-B3
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-223
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B4|Energy]]
| 77-22-B4
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-225
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B5|Restitution]]
| 77-22-B5
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-226
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B6|Freedom]]
| 77-22-B6
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-227, [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-96
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:11
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B7|An Angry Man I]]
| 77-22-B7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-229
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-22-B8|An Angry Man II]]
| 77-22-B8
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-230
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A1|Superintendent's Dilemma]]
| <span id="77-23">77-23</span>-A1
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A2|Capitalism/Socialism]]
| 77-23-A2
| EP4
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A3|Socialism]]
| 77-23-A3
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A4|Inflation and the Property Tax I]]
| 77-23-A4
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A5|Inflation and the Property Tax II]]
| 77-23-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A6|Public Employees]]
| 77-23-A6
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-A7|Red Hen]]
| 77-23-A7
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B1|President Coolidge]]
| 77-23-B1
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B2|Education]]
| 77-23-B2
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B3|Christmas]]
| 77-23-B3
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B4|Bread Machine and Janeway]]
| 77-23-B4
| ???
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B5|The Incredible Bread Machine]]
| 77-23-B5
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B6|People Power]]
| 77-23-B6
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B7|Button Button]]
| 77-23-B7
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-23-B8|America's Strength]]
| 77-23-B8
| EP4
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A1|Snail Darters]]
| <SPAN ID="77-24">77-24</SPAN>-A1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-231
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-1:10
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A2|Nicaragua I]]
| 77-24-A2
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A3|Nicaragua II]]
| 77-24-A3
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A4|Visas]]
| 77-24-A4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-232
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A5|National Security]]
| 77-24-A5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-233
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-1:11
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A6|National Health Insurance I]]
| 77-24-A6
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-235
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-A7|National Health Insurance II]]
| 77-24-A7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-236
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B1|Social Security]]
| 77-24-B1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-370
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-4:12
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B2|Martin Luther King]]
| 77-24-B2
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-385
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B3|Coffee]]
| 77-24-B3
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B4|Automobiles]]
| 77-24-B4
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-237
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B5|NEA]]
| 77-24-B5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-351
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B6|Kidco]]
| 77-24-B6
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B7|Apples]]
| 77-24-B7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-301
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[77-24-B8|Herman Kahn, Futurist]]
| 77-24-B8
|
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|
|}

77-20-A6

2026-04-01T13:20:33Z

Reagan admin:

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= Hospital Costs =

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=== Transcript ===
Why are hospital costs so high? And can they be made lower by simply issuing
a White House order that they shouldn’t be so high? I’ll be right back.

The White House has proposed placing a 9% limit on the increase in revenue
a hospital can get—from private patients. One reputable and respected
hospital admin, has said the goal is laudable but the proposal itself is unsound,
unfair, unrealistic, unworkable and will result in hospitals being less able to
serve the people. That-is-a rather all inclusive That’s a rather positive statement
that and doesn't tiptoe around the subject. And he is right.

First of all such a
blanket price fixing makes no allowance for hospitals that are presently being
run on an efficient, economical basis. It doesn't allow for the fact that about
70% of hospital costs are payroll directly affected by inflation. And what of
the hospitals faced with bringing buying expensive new
equipment up-to-date to keep pace with new medical procedures?
Then there
is the effect inflation has had on restocking supplies. One hospital supply
officer pointed out that in 1976 24 cases of sterile water used in surgery cost
$63.48. By the spring of ’77 10 cases cost $64.45.

Probably the best example of shortsightedness or perhaps just plain “lets
not talk about it” was the failure of the White House to touch on how much
govt, has to do with increased hospital costs. For example the increase in government
decrees demanding changes in laboratory safety standards, in laboratories,
and regulations covering electrical, fire and elevator rules which require expensive
renovations. Govt, programs also boost the number of health care recipients
and the amount of service provided those recipients.

Lets take a look at some of the rules and reporting requirements mandated by
not one but several government agencies. Hospitals must report monthly and annual
days of inpatient care, by age group, by services and by type of financial coverage.
Outpatient visits must be reported in the same manner. Also emergency
room visits.

Total annual minutes of anesthesia administered must be
reported as well as the number of x-ray exams and the number of films used in
these exams. Report the number of births for the year; The number of children
served. Report the number of physical therapy treatments, the number of
blood transfusions (and here is one)—report the number of outpatients admitted
as inpatients.

Each hospital must give a certain amount of “charity care” each year & have
multi-lingual signs posted telling the patients this charity is available.
Operations must be reported by type & number. Are you beginning to understand
why when you ring for the nurse she’s a sometimes a little while in getting
there? It’s all that paperwork.

And oh yes about half of reimbursement
rates are set by government at less than actual cost so the private patients
have to pay more to make up the difference. In socialized medicine there
wouldn’t be any private patients to be tapped so guess who’d pay then?

Hospitals must obtain a signed certificate as to
need for hospitalization and establish a “time limit” for hospital stay. Detailed
records must be kept on services provided, by date and by individual performing
the service. Periodically the “race” of each patient must be reported for a
given day.

These are only a few but of many requirements and I’m sure as you heard
them you wondered what of what use all that paper work was could be to
govt, except to make work for bureaucrats.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
</TD>
<TD WIDTH="10%" ROWSPAN="2"> </TD>
<TD VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT="250">
=== Details ===
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="80%">
<TR><TD WIDTH="150">Batch Number</TD><TD WIDTH="150">{{PAGENAME}}</TD></TR>
<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>09/27/[[Radio1977|1977]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV-200]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Audio</TD><TD></TD></TR>
<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD VALIGN="TOP">
===Added Notes===

</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

77-20-A1

2026-04-01T13:00:35Z

Reagan admin:

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= Pot =

<TABLE BORDER="0"><TR><TD WIDTH="60%" ROWSPAN="2">
=== Transcript ===
Washington has given voice to the idea that criminal sanctions for possession of
small amounts of marijuana should be lifted. I’ll be right back.

A recent editorial in a metropolitan paper approved the a statement emanating
from Washington about removing Federal criminal sanctions for possession of
small amounts, of marijuana. The editorial writer said, “Experience so far shows
no significant increase in marijuana use or abuse.”

This was too much for Daryl F. Gates, Assistant Chief, Director of Operations, Los
Angeles Police Department, one of the finest finest police forces in all the cities
of the world. Chief Gates took pen in
hand and wrote a letter to the editor.<SUP>1</SUP> He asked, “What experience?”

Not too long ago California, had a pretty sound law that gave a judge flexibility
to reduce a felony conviction to a misdemeanor in cases such as the youthful
experimenter. There were also provisions to allow users to choose
attending a treatment center with no filing of an arrest record. The people of
California overwhelmingly voted down a repudiated a ballot measure to
decriminalize marijuana. But on Jan. 1, 1976 a new law went into effect
reducing penalties for marijuana possession to about the level of a traffic ticket.

Chief Gates in his letter to the editor said that prior to the new law
in 1975 seizure of marijuana was totaled 4900 lbs. which gives some measurement of probable use.
When the relaxed law went into effect confiscation of the drug jumped to almost
18,000 lbs. In addition he said the marijuana was also of the more exotic
type containing a much higher percentage of THC the intoxicating agent.
Alarmingly the departments juvenile division, narcotic section experienced an
almost 50% increase in juvenile arrests for possession or use of marijuana in
1976 and so far in ’77 an additional 20% increase.

The Chief Gates wrote, “This apparent trend of increased usage by children
was also evident in a recent study in San Mateo County” and he
added that “the age of the user became progressively lower as the law became
weaker.”

Summing it up his letter read; “This evidence indicates that when the Legislature
reduced the penalties for marijuana use and possession there was a
marked increase in marijuana importation and in its use among our young
people.

Marijuana trafficking is a lucrative business, and one can only conclude
that it’s possession and use are encouraged when the legislature continues to
deemphasize the criminal consequences. The end result,” he says, “of such
legislative leniency is that the traffickers of this intoxicating drug are virtually
free to drain the vitality from our youth and our society with the approval of
our legislative representatives.”

I hope the editorial writer also reads letters to the editor.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.

</TD>
<TD WIDTH="10%" ROWSPAN="2"> </TD>
<TD VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT="250">
=== Details ===
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="80%">
<TR><TD WIDTH="150">Batch Number</TD><TD WIDTH="150">{{PAGENAME}}</TD></TR>
<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>09/27/[[Radio1977|1977]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV-199]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Audio</TD><TD></TD></TR>
<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD VALIGN="TOP">
===Added Notes===
''from the book'':
<OL STYLE="font-size: 80%">
<LI>Editorial, “Of Pot and Punishment,” ''Los Angeles Times'' Sec. 2, p. 4, August 4, 1977.<BR />
Gates’s letter was published on August 22, 1977 (Sec. 2, p. 6).
</OL>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

77-20-A1

2026-04-01T12:58:49Z

Reagan admin:

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= Pot =

<TABLE BORDER="0"><TR><TD WIDTH="60%" ROWSPAN="2">
=== Transcript ===
Washington has given voice to the idea that criminal sanctions for possession of
small amounts of marijuana should be lifted. I’ll be right back.

A recent editorial in a metropolitan paper approved the a statement emanating
from Washington about removing Federal criminal sanctions for possession of
small amounts, of marijuana. The editorial writer said, “Experience so far shows
no significant increase in marijuana use or abuse.”

This was too much for Daryl F. Gates, Assistant Chief, Director of Operations, Los
Angeles Police Department, one of the finest finest police forces in all the cities
of the world. Chief Gates took pen in
hand and wrote a letter to the editor.<SUP>1</SUP> He asked, “What experience?”

Not too long ago California, had a pretty sound law that gave a judge flexibility
to reduce a felony conviction to a misdemeanor in cases such as the youthful
experimenter. There were also provisions to allow users to choose
attending a treatment center with no filing of an arrest record. The people of
California overwhelmingly voted down a repudiated a ballot measure to
decriminalize marijuana. But on Jan. 1, 1976 a new law went into effect
reducing penalties for marijuana possession to about the level of a traffic ticket.

Chief Gates in his letter to the editor said that prior to the new law
in 1975 seizure of marijuana was totaled 4900 lbs. which gives some measurement of probable use.
When the relaxed law went into effect confiscation of the drug jumped to almost
18,000 lbs. In addition he said the marijuana was also of the more exotic
type containing a much higher percentage of THC the intoxicating agent.
Alarmingly the departments juvenile division, narcotic section experienced an al-
most 50% increase in juvenile arrests for possession or use of marijuana in
1976 and so far in ’77 an additional 20% increase.

The Chief Gates wrote, “This apparent trend of increased usage by children
was also evident in a recent study in San Mateo County” and he
added that “the age of the user became progressively lower as the law became
weaker.”

Summing it up his letter read; “This evidence indicates that when the Legislature
reduced the penalties for marijuana use and possession there was a
marked increase in marijuana importation and in its use among our young
people.

Marijuana trafficking is a lucrative business, and one can only conclude
that it’s possession and use are encouraged when the legislature continues to
deemphasize the criminal consequences. The end result,” he says, “of such
legislative leniency is that the traffickers of this intoxicating drug are virtually
free to drain the vitality from our youth and our society with the approval of
our legislative representatives.”

I hope the editorial writer also reads letters to the editor.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.

</TD>
<TD WIDTH="10%" ROWSPAN="2"> </TD>
<TD VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT="250">
=== Details ===
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="80%">
<TR><TD WIDTH="150">Batch Number</TD><TD WIDTH="150">{{PAGENAME}}</TD></TR>
<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>09/27/[[Radio1977|1977]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV-199]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Audio</TD><TD></TD></TR>
<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD VALIGN="TOP">
===Added Notes===
''from the book'':
<OL STYLE="font-size: 80%">
<LI>Editorial, “Of Pot and Punishment,” Los Angeles Times Sec. 2, p. 4, August 4, 1977.<BR />
Gates’s letter was published on August 22, 1977 (Sec. 2, p. 6).
</OL>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

77-20-A1

2026-04-01T12:57:55Z

Reagan admin:

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= Pot =

<TABLE BORDER="0"><TR><TD WIDTH="60%" ROWSPAN="2">
=== Transcript ===
Washington has given voice to the idea that criminal sanctions for possession of
small amounts of marijuana should be lifted. I’ll be right back.

A recent editorial in a metropolitan paper approved the a statement emanating
from Washington about removing Federal criminal sanctions for possession of
small amounts, of marijuana. The editorial writer said, “Experience so far shows
no significant increase in marijuana use or abuse.”

This was too much for Daryl F. Gates, Asst. Chief Dir. of Operations, Los
Angeles Police Dept., one of the finest finest police forces in all the cities
of the world. Chief Gates took pen in
hand and wrote a letter to the editor.* He asked, “What experience?”

Not too long ago California, had a pretty sound law that gave a judge flexibility
to reduce a felony conviction to a misdemeanor in cases such as the youthful
experimenter. There were also provisions to allow users to choose
attending a treatment center with no filing of an arrest record. The people of
California overwhelmingly voted down a repudiated a ballot measure to
decriminalize marijuana. But on Jan. 1, 1976 a new law went into effect
reducing penalties for marijuana possession to about the level of a traffic ticket.

Chief Gates in his letter to the editor said that prior to the new law
in 1975 seizure of marijuana was totaled 4900 lbs. which gives some measurement of probable use.
When the relaxed law went into effect confiscation of the drug jumped to almost
18,000 lbs. In addition he said the marijuana was also of the more exotic
type containing a much higher percentage of THC the intoxicating agent.
Alarmingly the departments juvenile division, narcotic section experienced an al-
most 50% increase in juvenile arrests for possession or use of marijuana in
1976 and so far in ’77 an additional 20% increase.

The Chief Gates wrote, “This apparent trend of increased usage by children
was also evident in a recent study in San Mateo County” and he
added that “the age of the user became progressively lower as the law became
weaker.”

Summing it up his letter read; “This evidence indicates that when the Legislature
reduced the penalties for marijuana use and possession there was a
marked increase in marijuana importation and in its use among our young
people.

Marijuana trafficking is a lucrative business, and one can only conclude
that it’s possession and use are encouraged when the legislature continues to
deemphasize the criminal consequences. The end result,” he says, “of such
legislative leniency is that the traffickers of this intoxicating drug are virtually
free to drain the vitality from our youth and our society with the approval of
our legislative representatives.”

I hope the editorial writer also reads letters to the editor.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.

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<LI>Editorial, “Of Pot and Punishment,” Los Angeles Times Sec. 2, p. 4, August 4, 1977.<BR />
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During the 1960s, future governor and President Ronald Reagan began to assert himself into the political arena.

One of his best known speeches of the era was his '[[A Time For Choosing]]', sometimes also called just '[[The Speech]]', given in support of Senator [[Barry Goldwater]], then running for President against [[Lyndon B Johnson]]. Televised nationally on October 27th, 1964, some say it was the beginning of his career as a politician.

During a driving trip to Washington D.C. in August of 2010, I took the opportunity to listen to '[[A Time For Choosing]]'. It's easy to hear something, it's another thing entirely to ''listen''. As I listened, I heard facts and figures, names and events and I couldn't help but wonder, "Is that true?" or "Who is that person?" This is what sowed the seeds of curiosity in my mind and led me to this project of research on those people, events and statistics.

While doing that research, I stumbled across a lesser known speech, one referred to by the name '[[Encroaching Control]]'. This was given in Phoenix, Arizona to Phoenix's Chamber of Commerce on March 30, 1961. I loved it! I did, however, end up with more new questions than answers to old ones.

More research led to more of Reagan's speeches and writings. Then I learned about the 1975 to 1979 Reagan radio show, which ran under the titles, "Viewpoint with Ronald Reagan" and the "Ronald Reagan Radio Commentaries."

I enjoy all these speeches I have found, but the references to people and events are highly dated, yet the essence of what Reagan said is still relevant to modern history. They say that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. This wiki is being put together with the goal of sourcing these speeches and any others I become interested in researching.

You can follow on Facebook: [http://www.facebook.com/pages/For-the-Preservation-of-the-Speeches-of-Ronald-Reagan/348257988526421 The Reagan Speech Preservation Society]

'''2022 Important Update:''' After having trouble with my Screwturn Wiki system, I decided to setup this one using MediaWiki. I have taken the opportunity to significantly expand the Radio Commentaries section to include transcripts.

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* 1961 [[A Foot in the Door]]
* 1961 [[Losing Freedom by Installments]]
* 1961 [[Encroaching Control]] ([[Encroaching Control-Prepared Version|Press Prepared Edition]])
* 1964 [[A Time For Choosing]] ([[A Time For Choosing-Prepared Version|Press Prepared Edition]])
* 1965 [[Unnamed Robert Ashbrook Dinner Speech]]
* 1966 [[The Myth of the Great Society]]
* 1974 [[A City Upon a Hill]] ([[A City Upon a Hill-Prepared Version|Press Prepared Edition]]) Given at the first CPAC
* 1975-1979 [[Reagan Radio Commentaries]]

* [[Carson1975|Ronald Reagan appears on Johnny Carson 1975]]
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[[yt:a6UJakGA3d4|Uncommon Knowledge: The Gipper Then and Now]] An Analysis of clips from Reagan's speeches from the 1960s

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= Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson =

On December 24, 2024, Elon Musk [[xpost:1871520121212346496|posted on X]] (formerly Twitter) a short video of Ronald Reagan talking to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, adding only "Very Wise Words." The 7:43 clip went viral.<BR/>
<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">(The portions of the full video that are included in the clip will be emphasized in the transcript below.)</SPAN>

This clip was a portion of a 20+ minute [[yt:xrNKguJLUYE|Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]. Reagan had just recently ended his terms as governor of California and would have just started recording his [[Reagan_Radio_Commentaries|short-form radio show]], as well as writing a syndicated newspaper column.

There seems to be some confusion in the Youtube video as to when this occurred. The video from the Reagan Foundation claims it was January 3, 1975, but sources such as [[wikipedia:List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson_episodes_(1975)#March|Wikipedia]], [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983692/?ref_=ttep_ep IMDB] and the videos available from the [https://www.youtube.com/@johnnycarson Johnny Carson Youtube channel], indicate the video is from March 13, 1975. This fits the early discussion, in which Reagan jokes about having been "unemployed" for a couple months.

== Transcript ==

<DIV STYLE="padding-left: 7ch; text-indent: -7ch;">
Carson: My first guest tonight is, uh, rather a phenomenon on a political scene as a citizen politician. Making his first try for public office, he was elected California's 33rd governor in 1966 by a majority of something around over a million votes. And he held that office, as you know, for eight years. And he used to joke that in his earlier profession he used to ride off in a sunset with the words "The End" on his back. But there are those who would say that Ronald Reagan... that 1975 may only be the beginning. Would you all complete the former governor of California, Ronald Reagan.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />
<BR />
Nice to see you.

Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment.

Carson: That's right, uh, how does it feel to be, uh, well you're not really unemployed now because I know you're doing a syndicated column and, um, for many who's been around 120 papers I think, and the radio show and on the lecture tour but how does it feel to be, I don't want to use the word, temporarily out of politics or not but we'll get into that later, uh, how's it feel to be away from Sacramento?

Reagan: Well it's doing what I'm doing I wanted to for a long time, it's very exciting and um there's mixed emotions when you step down there's always things that you had left undone that you'd like to have done but then uh all of a sudden the curtain's pulled and that chapter's over and uh...

Carson: Somebody else takes over. Did you have any major disappointments? What would you like to have done, your biggest disappointment, maybe your biggest highlight in office as you look back on it.

Reagan: Well, uh, I'll start with the biggest highlight. The first of all... was proving that some things I'd long believed as a citizen would work. That you could introduce common sense in government and after the first traumatic shock you kind of made some of it work. We, um, we came into quite a... a mess and at the end of eight years... You know government, in the United States, federal, state and local, has been growing for 20 years, in size, about two and a half times as fast as the increase in population... except for the last eight years in California.<BR />
We turned over a government that was the same size as the one we inherited eight years ago. There'd been no growth and in some departments this meant an increase of as much as 66 percent in the workload. But, um, part of that was the welfare reforms.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: Welfare was increasing here in California 40,000 cases a month and we left with about 400,000 fewer
people on welfare than there were four years ago. This saved the taxpayers about a billion dollars but what was equally important we were spread so thin we couldn't do what we should have done for, uh, the really needy, the really deserving and we were able to increase their grants by way of those reforms 43 percent.<BR />
Now you asked for what was the greatest disappointment the people handed it to us when, I think they were deceived, but when they voted down the tax limitation plan. I still say that the answer to our problems in this country even at the National level is to have a law that says there is a percentage limit of the people's earnings that government cannot go beyond without the consent of the people.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />

Carson: You're talking about... You're talking about the gross income of the country and how much they can appropriate for us...

Reagan: That's right.

Carson: ... for federal projects.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: See... when, um, when you and I were boys back in the Midwest...</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Right....</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Governments, federal state and local were only taking about 15 cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost half of every dollar earned in the United States and most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in the so-called business taxes, you know, the politician that stands up and yells, "Oh let's save the little man, let's tax business" and everybody yells "hurray". They haven't figured out that every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production and the customer winds up paying it when he buys the product. It's a hidden sales tax. There's 116 of them in a... the suit of clothes that each one of us is wearing.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Uh-huh. So a lot of economists have suggested, and I don't know they'll ever come to be in this country, that they're... if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations and maybe tax loopholes and even on the rich certain loopholes and and made a percentage income and made a flat fee without all of the deductions that the government might raise as much money as they do now.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Oh sure and really the loopholes, this has been overdone by the politicians too. The bulk of the money that is taken by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people didn't have them they couldn't pay their income tax; interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their... on their car, their property taxes on their home, if they have one and so forth. These are, in politicians eyes, loopholes. But we ought to have tax reform and we ought to start by making it so simple that you don't have to hire a lawyer to find out how much you owe every year.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: That's for sure... it used to be, uh... it used to be a little simplified but not anymore.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: We... Johnny, we live in the only country in a world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: [Laughs] You might be right.<BR /></SPAN>
Why do you think people are so they seem to be so disheartened now?<BR />
I know... Let's not get into the Watergate thing but that certainly had something to do with the, uh, the antipathy, I think, of a lot of people toward government, now we we see these revelations, of whether their revelations, or at least accusations that possibly the C.I.A. has been involved in some operations that they shouldn't have been involved in, certainly domestically, and people regularly get turned off. How do you... How do you turn people around and say "All right now, we're not going to do this anymore," and every day you see more of these things and I think people withdraw further and further and that's too bad.

Reagan: I know and I think part of it is because we're being bludgeoned every day... it's news... bad things are news we just every day we pick up and they read and record another tenth of a percent unemployment and so forth.<BR />
We keep hearing the the bad things... we hear the accusations and we're kind of used to accepting the accusation as proof of guilt. Now I'm [[wikipedia:United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States|on the C.I.A. Commission]], so I'm rather limited... I cannot talk at this stage...

Carson: True.

Reagan: But I think one of the sad things is that the American people cannot know instead, frankly, we have to have a counter intelligence organization for our own safety. If the American people knew the extent to which were being spied on by the Russians, they'd throw détente out the window and Brezhnev and a few fellows with it.

Carson: Well, obviously, I agree that... that has to go on internationally to protect your national security but when they start looking at, you know, their own their own congressmen and own private citizens who's only a threat to national security seem to be to voice some difference of opinions that's going a little over the line isn't it.

Reagan: No because... well again as I say we...

Carson: Oh that's right you can't...

Reagan: We can't... we can't give any progress report for you...

Carson: You want to speak into the ashtray here and tell me privately.

Reagan: All I'd say to the people is wait until the report comes in and I think when a report comes in, uh um, maybe they might be greatly reassured.

Carson: I didn't mean to put you behind the eight ball there I realize of course you're on that commission and you couldn't expand on that. Let's take a brief break and we'll come right back and get on another subject

''(Commercial Break, 7:27)''

Carson: We're talking with, uh, former governor Reagan and uh during the break we were discussing what I mentioned, uh, that I thought most people uh were not apathetic I think they're confused, basically, because you hear intelligent people from both political parties or in the middle, conservatives and liberals, and they all seem to have different answers as to what is going wrong in the country. Some people say well let's let the government spend billions of dollars and then other people say no no more federal spending, uh, let's give the tax rebates, and the other intelligent people say no tax rebates we've got to do this and do that so everybody is confused how do you see the thing what how are we going to get out of this?

Reagan: Well, Johnny I think that one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer and government's the problem. ''(Applause)'' You... A moment ago you asked you know about people and feeling not only confused but low and and down in America.<BR />
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around... you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on Earth. And we've asked so much of government and <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves and if government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks we'd never miss them.</SPAN><BR />
Now the... if the people...

Carson: Anybody you had in mind, particularly?

Reagan: No, I said this while I was in government.

Carson: Okay.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Our biggest problem is that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal state and local, the permanent employees and they've come to the place that they actually determine policy in this country more than does the Congress of the United States. There are 14 and a half million public employees in the United States, that's quite a voting bloc, and the bureaus and agencies not in Washington...<BR />
I heard you talking earlier about some of the research programs.</SPAN> Well there was a senator the other day, and he took up some pages of the Congressional Record. He was doing the same thing you were, listing all these crazy research programs and how much they were costing and wound up his speech by introducing his own. He wants a study in a research of transcendental meditation.<BR />
So you know there's a state senator in Michigan, and he just found out the other day, they got a $93,000 study on whether chitlins are bad for you, and and he said that as a fourth generation chitlin eater he figured that he could tell you how for 93 cents you can find out the answer to that.

Carson: No we laugh at those things but they do happen, I guess.

Reagan: Oh, listen there, you had... you had some beauties, and there's some others. <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">What would you say if I told you about one, a study, in which... this was called the um, the [[75-01-A4|Demography of Happiness]]. And in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people; they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less; and they found out that well people are happier than sick people.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: That's good. Glad to know that.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: $249,000 to find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy than old, poor, and sick.</SPAN>

''(Laughter and Applause)''</SPAN>

Carson: So, when you say now that it's the government may be the problem, so... so what do people do?<BR />
They have to look to somebody and you say if they look for themselves that's uh... It may be good advice, but how
about somebody who's on a, you know a social security pension or a pension they're trying to live on a $150 per month you know, they have to look to somebody, I guess...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: They're saying "Hey we can't make it, we can't afford to go to a doctor."

Reagan: Well 62% of the people can't stay home in an election and cure things as we did in the last election.

Carson: I just read this week... on... I heard this week on the radio they dropped 300,000 voters from the Los Angeles roll because they didn't take the time to go to the polls in the last election. Three hundred thousand people!

Reagan: The lowest percentage in history only 38 percent of the people voted in the national election and this means that people aren't paying any attention to what, well, here <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">a poll was taken recently that found out that only 46 percent of the people in the poll could name their United States Congressman. But what was worse 86 percent of those who could name him, couldn't tell you a single thing that he represented or stood for.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: They just knew that he represented the state...

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: He was a congressman but what's he doing while he's up there and the same is true at the at the local levels of government and... and all the rest. But uh...

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: So you're saying people really have to take an active interest and you have to have, uh, citizen action groups locally and uh...

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: And let them know ''[crosstalk]''<BR />
<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Now the special interest groups aren't as everyone thought big powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade government to do things as a matter of fact I don't know anyone with less influence today in government than business they're just a convenient whipping boy. but it's the groups that have got a particular axe to grind you can't have a power plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.<BR />
<BR />
Now I think I'm an environmentalist and I do not agree with those people way over the edge who paved the whole country over in the name of progress, but also I don't like those on the other extreme that won't let you build a house unless it looks like a bird's nest someplace in the middle we got to allow... people are ecology too.<BR />

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Right...

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Well this kind of group and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to to clear up the air. We're the only country in the world that set out to do it that way.</SPAN> The automobile industry, over and over again, told government if they give them more time, the answer lay in making the motor more efficient and making it burn the fuel better and... when they were given the limited time there was only one thing they could turn to... that was the add-ons that you had to go.

Carson: And, uh, the verdict is really kind of still out on on those whether they're going to add more sulfuric acid to the to the air or not.

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: What do you think is going to happen... Now you've been asked this question... I'm sure you knew that I
was... would might possibly bring it up tonight, uh, there's an election coming up you're, uh, you're out of politics now but you're speaking, and as I say, you're going around the country. Do you envision a possibility say in '76 if the
convention say was deadlocked. I'm giving you all the theories and so forth and the conservatives took over possibly and
got control of the, us, of the electoral process and they couldn't quite make a decision and they came to you and said "Governor Reagan uh we can't decide between Mr., uh, Ford and Mr. Rockefeller, we're divided um would you like to uh would you like to go to the White House."

Reagan: Uh, you remember that answer I gave you about the C.I.A.?

Carson: Yeah. ''(Laughter)'' Come on, I know... I'm not gonna buy them. Now I can understand the C.I.A. now but uh... I thought that was delicately phrased.

Reagan: Yes. Verbose but delicate.

Carson: Yeah, verbose but delicate.

Reagan: That one I, um, no I think it's an unanswerable question. I don't think anyone in view of the things that are going on the last few years knows what's going to happen in the in the next two years, down the road. I think that everyone should hope and pray that people are there will do the job so well there won't be any question about it because if they do then everything's all right with the rest of us, uh,

Carson: Do you think they're doing their job well?

Reagan: Well I agree with some things and disagree with others. When they... when they give me a... when they give me a choice between a 53 billion dollar deficit in the budget and an 80 billion dollar deficit, <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">when budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's any room to be on either side of that argument. I think the answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Now how do you do that? I mean how do you balance the budget?

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Well balancing the budget is like protecting...

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: You don't spend more than you take in.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Right. It's like protecting your virtue. You have to learn to say no.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">''(Applause)''

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: There's got to be another way. ''(Laughter)'' What's the second option?

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Well, no, there's some ways that this could be brought about first of all that limitation. Here's another one.
Why shouldn't we have in addition to a simplified income tax why shouldn't we also have a law that says that anytime a legislator a congressman introduces a spending program he has to introduce with it a tax program to pay for it then let the people find out.<BR />
<BR />There was a woman that... from a financial firm that was back at the president's Economic Council and her words weren't quoted... Everybody else's words got in the paper, all the [[wikipedia:Walter_Heller|Hellers]] and the [[wikipedia:John_Kenneth_Galbraith|Galbraiths]] and all the so-called economists. And I had... I have a degree in economics so I can say this, I think an economist is someone who has a [[75-10-A2|Phi Beta Kappa key on one end of his watch chain and no watch on the other]].<BR />
<BR />
Uh, this woman said that you go to the polls and you ask the people do they want some social service... some program that government can give and the people in the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good, yeah. But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says put a 100 bill in each person's hand and then show them the program and say, "Now isn't that a nice program? Do you want it? Give me the hundred dollars." and she says see what the poll says then and how many people hang on with a hundred dollars instead of the program.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: in other words it was rather hidden and someone doesn't know exactly where it's going to come...

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: They all start... all the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch you later. And... and they they multiply all of those things that you would...<BR />
<BR />
the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, that's responsible for the budget, putting up putting the budget
together, cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal
government. But all of them can pass regulations and those regulations have the force of law. And the difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until proven guilty, when you break a regulation the fellow that charges you with a breaking the regulation, you're guilty.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Right.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: If you want to take him to court and prove you're innocent that's up to you. And all of these are things that that... um yes we can trim the budget. there's enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world.</SPAN>

Carson: You, uh now you took... ''(Applause)'' They took a poll of the American people the past week and I think 78 percent, or something around 75 percent were opposed to more military aid to Vietnam and Cambodia and southeast Asia in general and yet the administration uh was trying to tell the American people that a couple hundred million or 222 million dollars would make some kind of difference or that the government might make it. And, uh, how do you feel you think that that is a lost cause in a way? I think people can see humanitarian, you know, for children hospitals, et cetera, and medical supplies, and food but it seems that the public has just almost had it up with military involvement where we feel we are not directly threatened.

Reagan: Well, we we are, uh, fed up. We're war-weary after a long and badly fought war. On the other hand, and this is one where I'll probably lose a lot of people because it isn't popular or political to say this today. When we withdrew our troops we made a ceasefire, a peace agreement and it was based on, uh, supporting the non-communist forces in Indochina on a basis of one-for-one replacement, every bullet they expended, a bullet to replace it, if the communists violated the ceasefire. The Communists have violated the ceasefire 72 thousand times, since it was instituted and we brought our men home and I think for the United States to break its word, we're in that agreement we pledge, something and the Congress is now saying that the United States reserves the right to just break its word and not... What other allies ever going to trust us and I, um, there's no question that backed by Red China and the Soviet Union the Communist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia are on their way to take those over. They do, of course, Laos just automatically falls
then they're on the edge of Indonesia, 140 million people which comes within miles, at its nearest point, of the
Philippines. The Domino Theory is...

Carson: Is it still a viable theory?

Reagan: Yes it is and I... I could see the United States one day being very very lonely. Now it's a very funny thing that the same forces that want to cut our defense spending are the same ones that want to increase all these social services and this social tinkering and experimenting that hasn't worked and every time it doesn't work they just impose a more expensive program on top of it. I think the American people, if they really look at all the facts, uh, yes we want fiscal responsibility but I think we also want a country that is strong enough at all times that we can say to any adventurous guys over there on the other side of the water you better look twice brother before you start getting rough
that we can take care of ourselves. ''(Applause)''

Carson: As you said... you even before you made the statement that would probably get mixed with your, uh, uh, reaction.

Reagan: I can understand that. People aren't, and it's hard to understand how maybe your interest is involved
10 000 miles away, but Russia seems concerned that their interests extend all the way to Cuba and to South America to Chile and to other countries of that kind and they're the ones that have said they're going to impose their way of life and the rest of the world. We haven't said we want to do it to the rest of the world our way.

Carson: Let me ask you one more question before you go. Let us assume that there's a third party, that neither party seems to go...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: Uh you like this approach already, huh? Uh and they're thrown into disarray as they say and a third party is formed. You think that'll ever happen in this country? That a third party will be a major type of uh alternate to what we have well?

Reagan: I'd still prefer to see a revitalization of the two major parties we have because the two-party system has served us very well. Third parties have a notorious way of not being successful. Now the Republican party, some people say, well that was a third party 100 years ago when it started. It actually wasn't, it was a second party. The Whig party had shrunk and shrunk and then the remainder of the Whig party said the two other groups that had formed parties, 'Hey want to get together with us?' They changed their name and called themselves the other party and so it was in effect the Whigs just disappeared. It was a new second party.

Uh, maybe this is time... <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">maybe it's time for, uh, realignment between people who might be finding themselves in the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting... I was a Democrat most of my life, I became a Republican only not too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of telling some of those people that are saying the Republican party ought to broaden its base the other day that, uh, when I switched parties I didn't do it because the two parties were alike, I did it because they were different. And I think that the two parties ought to stand up as to what they represent... what they stand for.</SPAN>

A third party I they have a way of electing the wrong people they because they simply divide themselves from the other forces that feel the same way and then the other fellow sneaks in and then I'd... it, it could happen that the that neither party would would represent what the people want and finally the people would take some action do something about it but I'd, I'd rather devote our effort to seeing if we can't find out what the present two parties stand for and which one we want.

Carson: But you don't see yourself, or do you see yourself as maybe as a part of that actively, active politically again. I certainly don't give up do I?

Reagan: Uh, yeah, you... you... you sure... sure don't. I wish I could think of a good get-off line.

Carson: I have [[wikipedia:Lawrence_Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]]'s old questions you know for that.

Reagan: Nancy, Nancy you know said to say hello tonight she thought it was great that we're both in town at the same time.

Carson: You too? I get that. Thanks for being with us tonight, really.

Reagan: It's a pleasure to see you again.
</DIV>

Carson1975

2026-04-01T11:27:32Z

Reagan admin:

= Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson =

On December 24, 2024, Elon Musk [[xpost:1871520121212346496|posted on X]] (formerly Twitter) a short video of Ronald Reagan talking to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, adding only "Very Wise Words." The 7:43 clip went viral.<BR/>
<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">(The portions of the full video that are included in the clip will be emphasized in the transcript below.)</SPAN>

This clip was a portion of a 20+ minute [[yt:xrNKguJLUYE|Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]. Reagan had just recently ended his terms as governor of California and would have just started recording his [[Reagan_Radio_Commentaries|short-form radio show]], as well as writing a syndicated newspaper column.

There seems to be some confusion in the Youtube video as to when this occurred. The video from the Reagan Foundation claims it was January 3, 1975, but sources such as [[wikipedia:List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson_episodes_(1975)#March|Wikipedia]], [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983692/?ref_=ttep_ep IMDB] and the videos available from the [https://www.youtube.com/@johnnycarson Johnny Carson Youtube channel], indicate the video is from March 13, 1975. This fits the early discussion, in which Reagan jokes about having been "unemployed" for a couple months.

== Transcript ==

<DIV STYLE="padding-left: 7ch; text-indent: -7ch;">
Carson: My first guest tonight is, uh, rather a phenomenon on a political scene as a citizen politician. Making his first try for public office, he was elected California's 33rd governor in 1966 by a majority of something around over a million votes. And he held that office, as you know, for eight years. And he used to joke that in his earlier profession he used to ride off in a sunset with the words "The End" on his back. But there are those who would say that Ronald Reagan... that 1975 may only be the beginning. Would you all complete the former governor of California, Ronald Reagan.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />
<BR />
Nice to see you.

Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment.

Carson: That's right, uh, how does it feel to be, uh, well you're not really unemployed now because I know you're doing a syndicated column and, um, for many who's been around 120 papers I think, and the radio show and on the lecture tour but how does it feel to be, I don't want to use the word, temporarily out of politics or not but we'll get into that later, uh, how's it feel to be away from Sacramento?

Reagan: Well it's doing what I'm doing I wanted to for a long time, it's very exciting and um there's mixed emotions when you step down there's always things that you had left undone that you'd like to have done but then uh all of a sudden the curtain's pulled and that chapter's over and uh...

Carson: Somebody else takes over. Did you have any major disappointments? What would you like to have done, your biggest disappointment, maybe your biggest highlight in office as you look back on it.

Reagan: Well, uh, I'll start with the biggest highlight. The first of all... was proving that some things I'd long believed as a citizen would work. That you could introduce common sense in government and after the first traumatic shock you kind of made some of it work. We, um, we came into quite a... a mess and at the end of eight years... You know government, in the United States, federal, state and local, has been growing for 20 years, in size, about two and a half times as fast as the increase in population... except for the last eight years in California.<BR />
We turned over a government that was the same size as the one we inherited eight years ago. There'd been no growth and in some departments this meant an increase of as much as 66 percent in the workload. But, um, part of that was the welfare reforms.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: Welfare was increasing here in California 40,000 cases a month and we left with about 400,000 fewer
people on welfare than there were four years ago. This saved the taxpayers about a billion dollars but what was equally important we were spread so thin we couldn't do what we should have done for, uh, the really needy, the really deserving and we were able to increase their grants by way of those reforms 43 percent.<BR />
Now you asked for what was the greatest disappointment the people handed it to us when, I think they were deceived, but when they voted down the tax limitation plan. I still say that the answer to our problems in this country even at the National level is to have a law that says there is a percentage limit of the people's earnings that government cannot go beyond without the consent of the people.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />

Carson: You're talking about... You're talking about the gross income of the country and how much they can appropriate for us...

Reagan: That's right.

Carson: ... for federal projects.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: See... when, um, when you and I were boys back in the Midwest...</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Right....</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Governments, federal state and local were only taking about 15 cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost half of every dollar earned in the United States and most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in the so-called business taxes, you know, the politician that stands up and yells, "Oh let's save the little man, let's tax business" and everybody yells "hurray". They haven't figured out that every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production and the customer winds up paying it when he buys the product. It's a hidden sales tax. There's 116 of them in a... the suit of clothes that each one of us is wearing.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Uh-huh. So a lot of economists have suggested, and I don't know they'll ever come to be in this country, that they're... if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations and maybe tax loopholes and even on the rich certain loopholes and and made a percentage income and made a flat fee without all of the deductions that the government might raise as much money as they do now.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Oh sure and really the loopholes, this has been overdone by the politicians too. The bulk of the money that is taken by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people didn't have them they couldn't pay their income tax; interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their... on their car, their property taxes on their home, if they have one and so forth. These are, in politicians eyes, loopholes. But we ought to have tax reform and we ought to start by making it so simple that you don't have to hire a lawyer to find out how much you owe every year.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: That's for sure... it used to be, uh... it used to be a little simplified but not anymore.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: We... Johnny, we live in the only country in a world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: [Laughs] You might be right.<BR /></SPAN>
Why do you think people are so they seem to be so disheartened now?<BR />
I know... Let's not get into the Watergate thing but that certainly had something to do with the, uh, the antipathy, I think, of a lot of people toward government, now we we see these revelations, of whether their revelations, or at least accusations that possibly the C.I.A. has been involved in some operations that they shouldn't have been involved in, certainly domestically, and people regularly get turned off. How do you... How do you turn people around and say "All right now, we're not going to do this anymore," and every day you see more of these things and I think people withdraw further and further and that's too bad.

Reagan: I know and I think part of it is because we're being bludgeoned every day... it's news... bad things are news we just every day we pick up and they read and record another tenth of a percent unemployment and so forth.<BR />
We keep hearing the the bad things... we hear the accusations and we're kind of used to accepting the accusation as proof of guilt. Now I'm [[wikipedia:United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States|on the C.I.A. Commission]], so I'm rather limited... I cannot talk at this stage...

Carson: True.

Reagan: But I think one of the sad things is that the American people cannot know instead, frankly, we have to have a counter intelligence organization for our own safety. If the American people knew the extent to which were being spied on by the Russians, they'd throw détente out the window and Brezhnev and a few fellows with it.

Carson: Well, obviously, I agree that... that has to go on internationally to protect your national security but when they start looking at, you know, their own their own congressmen and own private citizens who's only a threat to national security seem to be to voice some difference of opinions that's going a little over the line isn't it.

Reagan: No because... well again as I say we...

Carson: Oh that's right you can't...

Reagan: We can't... we can't give any progress report for you...

Carson: You want to speak into the ashtray here and tell me privately.

Reagan: All I'd say to the people is wait until the report comes in and I think when a report comes in, uh um, maybe they might be greatly reassured.

Carson: I didn't mean to put you behind the eight ball there I realize of course you're on that commission and you couldn't expand on that. Let's take a brief break and we'll come right back and get on another subject

''(Commercial Break, 7:27)''

Carson: We're talking with, uh, former governor Reagan and uh during the break we were discussing what I mentioned, uh, that I thought most people uh were not apathetic I think they're confused, basically, because you hear intelligent people from both political parties or in the middle, conservatives and liberals, and they all seem to have different answers as to what is going wrong in the country. Some people say well let's let the government spend billions of dollars and then other people say no no more federal spending, uh, let's give the tax rebates, and the other intelligent people say no tax rebates we've got to do this and do that so everybody is confused how do you see the thing what how are we going to get out of this?

Reagan: Well, Johnny I think that one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer and government's the problem. ''(Applause)'' You... A moment ago you asked you know about people and feeling not only confused but low and and down in America.<BR />
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around... you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on Earth. And we've asked so much of government and <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves and if government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks we'd never miss them.</SPAN><BR />
Now the... if the people...

Carson: Anybody you had in mind, particularly?

Reagan: No, I said this while I was in government.

Carson: Okay.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Our biggest problem is that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal state and local, the permanent employees and they've come to the place that they actually determine policy in this country more than does the Congress of the United States. There are 14 and a half million public employees in the United States, that's quite a voting bloc, and the bureaus and agencies not in Washington...<BR />
I heard you talking earlier about some of the research programs.</SPAN> Well there was a senator the other day, and he took up some pages of the Congressional Record. He was doing the same thing you were, listing all these crazy research programs and how much they were costing and wound up his speech by introducing his own. He wants a study in a research of transcendental meditation.<BR />
So you know there's a state senator in Michigan, and he just found out the other day, they got a $93,000 study on whether chitlins are bad for you, and and he said that as a fourth generation chitlin eater he figured that he could tell you how for 93 cents you can find out the answer to that.

Carson: No we laugh at those things but they do happen, I guess.

Reagan: Oh, listen there, you had... you had some beauties, and there's some others. <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">What would you say if I told you about one, a study, in which... this was called the um, the [[75-01-A4|Demography of Happiness]]. And in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people; they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less; and they found out that well people are happier than sick people.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: That's good. Glad to know that.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: $249,000 to find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy than old, poor, and sick.</SPAN>

''(Laughter and Applause)''</SPAN>

Carson: So, when you say now that it's the government may be the problem, so... so what do people do?<BR />
They have to look to somebody and you say if they look for themselves that's uh... It may be good advice, but how
about somebody who's on a, you know a social security pension or a pension they're trying to live on a $150 per month you know, they have to look to somebody, I guess...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: They're saying "Hey we can't make it, we can't afford to go to a doctor."

Reagan: Well 62% of the people can't stay home in an election and cure things as we did in the last election.

Carson: I just read this week... on... I heard this week on the radio they dropped 300,000 voters from the Los Angeles roll because they didn't take the time to go to the polls in the last election. Three hundred thousand people!

Reagan: The lowest percentage in history only 38 percent of the people voted in the national election and this means that people aren't paying any attention to what, well, here <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">a poll was taken recently that found out that only 46 percent of the people in the poll could name their United States Congressman. But what was worse 86 percent of those who could name him, couldn't tell you a single thing that he represented or stood for.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: They just knew that he represented the state...

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: He was a congressman but what's he doing while he's up there and the same is true at the at the local levels of government and... and all the rest. But uh...

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: So you're saying people really have to take an active interest and you have to have, uh, citizen action groups locally and uh...

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: And let them know ''[crosstalk]''<BR />
<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Now the special interest groups aren't as everyone thought big powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade government to do things as a matter of fact I don't know anyone with less influence today in government than business they're just a convenient whipping boy. but it's the groups that have got a particular axe to grind you can't have a power plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.<BR />
<BR />
Now I think I'm an environmentalist and I do not agree with those people way over the edge who paved the whole country over in the name of progress, but also I don't like those on the other extreme that won't let you build a house unless it looks like a bird's nest someplace in the middle we got to allow... people are ecology too.<BR />

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Right...

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Well this kind of group and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to to clear up the air. We're the only country in the world that set out to do it that way.</SPAN> The automobile industry, over and over again, told government if they give them more time, the answer lay in making the motor more efficient and making it burn the fuel better and... when they were given the limited time there was only one thing they could turn to... that was the add-ons that you had to go.

Carson: And, uh, the verdict is really kind of still out on on those whether they're going to add more sulfuric acid to the to the air or not.

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: What do you think is going to happen... Now you've been asked this question... I'm sure you knew that I
was... would might possibly bring it up tonight, uh, there's an election coming up you're, uh, you're out of politics now but you're speaking, and as I say, you're going around the country. Do you envision a possibility say in '76 if the
convention say was deadlocked. I'm giving you all the theories and so forth and the conservatives took over possibly and
got control of the, us, of the electoral process and they couldn't quite make a decision and they came to you and said "Governor Reagan uh we can't decide between Mr., uh, Ford and Mr. Rockefeller, we're divided um would you like to uh would you like to go to the White House."

Reagan: Uh, you remember that answer I gave you about the C.I.A.?

Carson: Yeah. ''(Laughter)'' Come on, I know... I'm not gonna buy them. Now I can understand the C.I.A. now but uh... I thought that was delicately phrased.

Reagan: Yes. Verbose but delicate.

Carson: Yeah, verbose but delicate.

Reagan: That one I, um, no I think it's an unanswerable question. I don't think anyone in view of the things that are going on the last few years knows what's going to happen in the in the next two years, down the road. I think that everyone should hope and pray that people are there will do the job so well there won't be any question about it because if they do then everything's all right with the rest of us, uh,

Carson: Do you think they're doing their job well?

Reagan: Well I agree with some things and disagree with others. When they... when they give me a... when they give me a choice between a 53 billion dollar deficit in the budget and an 80 billion dollar deficit, <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">when budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's any room to be on either side of that argument. I think the answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget.

Carson: Now how do you do that? I mean how do you balance the budget?

Reagan: Well balancing the budget is like protecting...

Carson: You don't spend more than you take in.

Reagan: Right. It's like protecting your virtue. You have to learn to say no.

''(Applause)''

Carson: There's got to be another way. ''(Laughter)'' What's the second option?

Reagan: Well, no, there's some ways that this could be brought about first of all that limitation. Here's another one.
Why shouldn't we have in addition to a simplified income tax why shouldn't we also have a law that says that anytime a legislator a congressman introduces a spending program he has to introduce with it a tax program to pay for it then let the people find out.

There was a woman that... from a financial firm that was back at the president's Economic Council and her words weren't quoted... Everybody else's words got in the paper, all the [[wikipedia:Walter_Heller|Hellers]] and the [[wikipedia:John_Kenneth_Galbraith|Galbraiths]] and all the so-called economists. And I had... I have a degree in economics so I can say this, I think an economist is someone who has a [[75-10-A2|Phi Beta Kappa key on one end of his watch chain and no watch on the other]].<BR />
<BR />
Uh, this woman said that you go to the polls and you ask the people do they want some social service... some program that government can give and the people in the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good, yeah. But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says put a 100 bill in each person's hand and then show them the program and say, "Now isn't that a nice program? Do you want it? Give me the hundred dollars." and she says see what the poll says then and how many people hang on with a hundred dollars instead of the program.

Carson: in other words it was rather hidden and someone doesn't know exactly where it's going to come...

Reagan: They all start... all the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch you later. And... and they they multiply all of those things that you would...<BR />
<BR />
the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, that's responsible for the budget, putting up putting the budget
together, cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal
government. But all of them can pass regulations and those regulations have the force of law. And the difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until proven guilty, when you break a regulation the fellow that charges you with a breaking the regulation, you're guilty.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: If you want to take him to court and prove you're innocent that's up to you. And all of these are things that that... um yes we can trim the budget. there's enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world.</SPAN>

Carson: You, uh now you took... ''(Applause)'' They took a poll of the American people the past week and I think 78 percent, or something around 75 percent were opposed to more military aid to Vietnam and Cambodia and southeast Asia in general and yet the administration uh was trying to tell the American people that a couple hundred million or 222 million dollars would make some kind of difference or that the government might make it. And, uh, how do you feel you think that that is a lost cause in a way? I think people can see humanitarian, you know, for children hospitals, et cetera, and medical supplies, and food but it seems that the public has just almost had it up with military involvement where we feel we are not directly threatened.

Reagan: Well, we we are, uh, fed up. We're war-weary after a long and badly fought war. On the other hand, and this is one where I'll probably lose a lot of people because it isn't popular or political to say this today. When we withdrew our troops we made a ceasefire, a peace agreement and it was based on, uh, supporting the non-communist forces in Indochina on a basis of one-for-one replacement, every bullet they expended, a bullet to replace it, if the communists violated the ceasefire. The Communists have violated the ceasefire 72 thousand times, since it was instituted and we brought our men home and I think for the United States to break its word, we're in that agreement we pledge, something and the Congress is now saying that the United States reserves the right to just break its word and not... What other allies ever going to trust us and I, um, there's no question that backed by Red China and the Soviet Union the Communist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia are on their way to take those over. They do, of course, Laos just automatically falls
then they're on the edge of Indonesia, 140 million people which comes within miles, at its nearest point, of the
Philippines. The Domino Theory is...

Carson: Is it still a viable theory?

Reagan: Yes it is and I... I could see the United States one day being very very lonely. Now it's a very funny thing that the same forces that want to cut our defense spending are the same ones that want to increase all these social services and this social tinkering and experimenting that hasn't worked and every time it doesn't work they just impose a more expensive program on top of it. I think the American people, if they really look at all the facts, uh, yes we want fiscal responsibility but I think we also want a country that is strong enough at all times that we can say to any adventurous guys over there on the other side of the water you better look twice brother before you start getting rough
that we can take care of ourselves. ''(Applause)''

Carson: As you said... you even before you made the statement that would probably get mixed with your, uh, uh, reaction.

Reagan: I can understand that. People aren't, and it's hard to understand how maybe your interest is involved
10 000 miles away, but Russia seems concerned that their interests extend all the way to Cuba and to South America to Chile and to other countries of that kind and they're the ones that have said they're going to impose their way of life and the rest of the world. We haven't said we want to do it to the rest of the world our way.

Carson: Let me ask you one more question before you go. Let us assume that there's a third party, that neither party seems to go...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: Uh you like this approach already, huh? Uh and they're thrown into disarray as they say and a third party is formed. You think that'll ever happen in this country? That a third party will be a major type of uh alternate to what we have well?

Reagan: I'd still prefer to see a revitalization of the two major parties we have because the two-party system has served us very well. Third parties have a notorious way of not being successful. Now the Republican party, some people say, well that was a third party 100 years ago when it started. It actually wasn't, it was a second party. The Whig party had shrunk and shrunk and then the remainder of the Whig party said the two other groups that had formed parties, 'Hey want to get together with us?' They changed their name and called themselves the other party and so it was in effect the Whigs just disappeared. It was a new second party.

Uh, maybe this is time... <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">maybe it's time for, uh, realignment between people who might be finding themselves in the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting... I was a Democrat most of my life, I became a Republican only not too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of telling some of those people that are saying the Republican party ought to broaden its base the other day that, uh, when I switched parties I didn't do it because the two parties were alike, I did it because they were different. And I think that the two parties ought to stand up as to what they represent... what they stand for.</SPAN>

A third party I they have a way of electing the wrong people they because they simply divide themselves from the other forces that feel the same way and then the other fellow sneaks in and then I'd... it, it could happen that the that neither party would would represent what the people want and finally the people would take some action do something about it but I'd, I'd rather devote our effort to seeing if we can't find out what the present two parties stand for and which one we want.

Carson: But you don't see yourself, or do you see yourself as maybe as a part of that actively, active politically again. I certainly don't give up do I?

Reagan: Uh, yeah, you... you... you sure... sure don't. I wish I could think of a good get-off line.

Carson: I have [[wikipedia:Lawrence_Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]]'s old questions you know for that.

Reagan: Nancy, Nancy you know said to say hello tonight she thought it was great that we're both in town at the same time.

Carson: You too? I get that. Thanks for being with us tonight, really.

Reagan: It's a pleasure to see you again.
</DIV>

Carson1975

2026-04-01T11:25:27Z

Reagan admin:

= Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson =

On December 24, 2024, Elon Musk [[xpost:1871520121212346496|posted on X]] (formerly Twitter) a short video of Ronald Reagan talking to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, adding only "Very Wise Words." The 7:43 clip went viral.<BR/>
<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">(The portions of the full video that are included in the clip will be emphasized in the transcript below.)</SPAN>

This clip was a portion of a 20+ minute [[yt:xrNKguJLUYE|Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]. Reagan had just recently ended his terms as governor of California and would have just started recording his [[Reagan_Radio_Commentaries|short-form radio show]], as well as writing a syndicated newspaper column.

There seems to be some confusion in the Youtube video as to when this occurred. The video from the Reagan Foundation claims it was January 3, 1975, but sources such as [[wikipedia:List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson_episodes_(1975)#March|Wikipedia]], [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983692/?ref_=ttep_ep IMDB] and the videos available from the [https://www.youtube.com/@johnnycarson Johnny Carson Youtube channel], indicate the video is from March 13, 1975. This fits the early discussion, in which Reagan jokes about having been "unemployed" for a couple months.

== Transcript ==

<DIV STYLE="padding-left: 7ch; text-indent: -7ch;">
Carson: My first guest tonight is, uh, rather a phenomenon on a political scene as a citizen politician. Making his first try for public office, he was elected California's 33rd governor in 1966 by a majority of something around over a million votes. And he held that office, as you know, for eight years. And he used to joke that in his earlier profession he used to ride off in a sunset with the words "The End" on his back. But there are those who would say that Ronald Reagan... that 1975 may only be the beginning. Would you all complete the former governor of California, Ronald Reagan.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />
<BR />
Nice to see you.

Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment.

Carson: That's right, uh, how does it feel to be, uh, well you're not really unemployed now because I know you're doing a syndicated column and, um, for many who's been around 120 papers I think, and the radio show and on the lecture tour but how does it feel to be, I don't want to use the word, temporarily out of politics or not but we'll get into that later, uh, how's it feel to be away from Sacramento?

Reagan: Well it's doing what I'm doing I wanted to for a long time, it's very exciting and um there's mixed emotions when you step down there's always things that you had left undone that you'd like to have done but then uh all of a sudden the curtain's pulled and that chapter's over and uh...

Carson: Somebody else takes over. Did you have any major disappointments? What would you like to have done, your biggest disappointment, maybe your biggest highlight in office as you look back on it.

Reagan: Well, uh, I'll start with the biggest highlight. The first of all... was proving that some things I'd long believed as a citizen would work. That you could introduce common sense in government and after the first traumatic shock you kind of made some of it work. We, um, we came into quite a... a mess and at the end of eight years... You know government, in the United States, federal, state and local, has been growing for 20 years, in size, about two and a half times as fast as the increase in population... except for the last eight years in California.<BR />
We turned over a government that was the same size as the one we inherited eight years ago. There'd been no growth and in some departments this meant an increase of as much as 66 percent in the workload. But, um, part of that was the welfare reforms.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: Welfare was increasing here in California 40,000 cases a month and we left with about 400,000 fewer
people on welfare than there were four years ago. This saved the taxpayers about a billion dollars but what was equally important we were spread so thin we couldn't do what we should have done for, uh, the really needy, the really deserving and we were able to increase their grants by way of those reforms 43 percent.<BR />
Now you asked for what was the greatest disappointment the people handed it to us when, I think they were deceived, but when they voted down the tax limitation plan. I still say that the answer to our problems in this country even at the National level is to have a law that says there is a percentage limit of the people's earnings that government cannot go beyond without the consent of the people.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />

Carson: You're talking about... You're talking about the gross income of the country and how much they can appropriate for us...

Reagan: That's right.

Carson: ... for federal projects.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: See... when, um, when you and I were boys back in the Midwest...</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Right....</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Governments, federal state and local were only taking about 15 cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost half of every dollar earned in the United States and most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in the so-called business taxes, you know, the politician that stands up and yells, "Oh let's save the little man, let's tax business" and everybody yells "hurray". They haven't figured out that every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production and the customer winds up paying it when he buys the product. It's a hidden sales tax. There's 116 of them in a... the suit of clothes that each one of us is wearing.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Uh-huh. So a lot of economists have suggested, and I don't know they'll ever come to be in this country, that they're... if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations and maybe tax loopholes and even on the rich certain loopholes and and made a percentage income and made a flat fee without all of the deductions that the government might raise as much money as they do now.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Oh sure and really the loopholes, this has been overdone by the politicians too. The bulk of the money that is taken by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people didn't have them they couldn't pay their income tax; interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their... on their car, their property taxes on their home, if they have one and so forth. These are, in politicians eyes, loopholes. But we ought to have tax reform and we ought to start by making it so simple that you don't have to hire a lawyer to find out how much you owe every year.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: That's for sure... it used to be, uh... it used to be a little simplified but not anymore.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: We... Johnny, we live in the only country in a world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: [Laughs] You might be right.<BR /></SPAN>
Why do you think people are so they seem to be so disheartened now?<BR />
I know... Let's not get into the Watergate thing but that certainly had something to do with the, uh, the antipathy, I think, of a lot of people toward government, now we we see these revelations, of whether their revelations, or at least accusations that possibly the C.I.A. has been involved in some operations that they shouldn't have been involved in, certainly domestically, and people regularly get turned off. How do you... How do you turn people around and say "All right now, we're not going to do this anymore," and every day you see more of these things and I think people withdraw further and further and that's too bad.

Reagan: I know and I think part of it is because we're being bludgeoned every day... it's news... bad things are news we just every day we pick up and they read and record another tenth of a percent unemployment and so forth.<BR />
We keep hearing the the bad things... we hear the accusations and we're kind of used to accepting the accusation as proof of guilt. Now I'm [[wikipedia:United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States|on the C.I.A. Commission]], so I'm rather limited... I cannot talk at this stage...

Carson: True.

Reagan: But I think one of the sad things is that the American people cannot know instead, frankly, we have to have a counter intelligence organization for our own safety. If the American people knew the extent to which were being spied on by the Russians, they'd throw détente out the window and Brezhnev and a few fellows with it.

Carson: Well, obviously, I agree that... that has to go on internationally to protect your national security but when they start looking at, you know, their own their own congressmen and own private citizens who's only a threat to national security seem to be to voice some difference of opinions that's going a little over the line isn't it.

Reagan: No because... well again as I say we...

Carson: Oh that's right you can't...

Reagan: We can't... we can't give any progress report for you...

Carson: You want to speak into the ashtray here and tell me privately.

Reagan: All I'd say to the people is wait until the report comes in and I think when a report comes in, uh um, maybe they might be greatly reassured.

Carson: I didn't mean to put you behind the eight ball there I realize of course you're on that commission and you couldn't expand on that. Let's take a brief break and we'll come right back and get on another subject

''(Commercial Break, 7:27)''

Carson: We're talking with, uh, former governor Reagan and uh during the break we were discussing what I mentioned, uh, that I thought most people uh were not apathetic I think they're confused, basically, because you hear intelligent people from both political parties or in the middle, conservatives and liberals, and they all seem to have different answers as to what is going wrong in the country. Some people say well let's let the government spend billions of dollars and then other people say no no more federal spending, uh, let's give the tax rebates, and the other intelligent people say no tax rebates we've got to do this and do that so everybody is confused how do you see the thing what how are we going to get out of this?

Reagan: Well, Johnny I think that one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer and government's the problem. ''(Applause)'' You... A moment ago you asked you know about people and feeling not only confused but low and and down in America.<BR />
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around... you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on Earth. And we've asked so much of government and <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves and if government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks we'd never miss them.</SPAN><BR />
Now the... if the people...

Carson: Anybody you had in mind, particularly?

Reagan: No, I said this while I was in government.

Carson: Okay.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Our biggest problem is that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal state and local, the permanent employees and they've come to the place that they actually determine policy in this country more than does the Congress of the United States. There are 14 and a half million public employees in the United States, that's quite a voting bloc, and the bureaus and agencies not in Washington...<BR />
I heard you talking earlier about some of the research programs.</SPAN> Well there was a senator the other day, and he took up some pages of the Congressional Record. He was doing the same thing you were, listing all these crazy research programs and how much they were costing and wound up his speech by introducing his own. He wants a study in a research of transcendental meditation.<BR />
So you know there's a state senator in Michigan, and he just found out the other day, they got a $93,000 study on whether chitlins are bad for you, and and he said that as a fourth generation chitlin eater he figured that he could tell you how for 93 cents you can find out the answer to that.

Carson: No we laugh at those things but they do happen, I guess.

Reagan: Oh, listen there, you had... you had some beauties, and there's some others. <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">What would you say if I told you about one, a study, in which... this was called the um, the [[75-01-A4|Demography of Happiness]]. And in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people; they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less; and they found out that well people are happier than sick people.

Carson: That's good. Glad to know that.

Reagan: $249,000 to find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy than old, poor, and sick.

''(Laughter and Applause)''</SPAN>

Carson: So, when you say now that it's the government may be the problem, so... so what do people do?<BR />
They have to look to somebody and you say if they look for themselves that's uh... It may be good advice, but how
about somebody who's on a, you know a social security pension or a pension they're trying to live on a $150 per month you know, they have to look to somebody, I guess...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: They're saying "Hey we can't make it, we can't afford to go to a doctor."

Reagan: Well 62% of the people can't stay home in an election and cure things as we did in the last election.

Carson: I just read this week... on... I heard this week on the radio they dropped 300,000 voters from the Los Angeles roll because they didn't take the time to go to the polls in the last election. Three hundred thousand people!

Reagan: The lowest percentage in history only 38 percent of the people voted in the national election and this means that people aren't paying any attention to what, well, here <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">a poll was taken recently that found out that only 46 percent of the people in the poll could name their United States Congressman. But what was worse 86 percent of those who could name him, couldn't tell you a single thing that he represented or stood for.

Carson: They just knew that he represented the state...

Reagan: He was a congressman but what's he doing while he's up there and the same is true at the at the local levels of government and... and all the rest. But uh...

Carson: So you're saying people really have to take an active interest and you have to have, uh, citizen action groups locally and uh...

Reagan: And let them know ''[crosstalk]''<BR />
Now the special interest groups aren't as everyone thought big powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade government to do things as a matter of fact I don't know anyone with less influence today in government
than business they're just a convenient whipping boy. but it's the groups that have got a particular axe to grind
you can't have a power plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.<BR />
<BR />
Now I think I'm an environmentalist and I do not agree with those people way over the edge who paved the whole country over in the name of progress, but also I don't like those on the other extreme that won't let you build a house unless it looks like a bird's nest someplace in the middle we got to allow... people are ecology too.<BR />

Carson: Right...

Reagan: Well this kind of group and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to to clear up the air. We're the only country in the world that set out to do it that way.</SPAN> The automobile industry, over and over again, told government if they give them more time, the answer lay in making the motor more efficient and making it burn the fuel better and... when they were given the limited time there was only one thing they could turn to... that was the add-ons that you had to go.

Carson: And, uh, the verdict is really kind of still out on on those whether they're going to add more sulfuric acid to the to the air or not.

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: What do you think is going to happen... Now you've been asked this question... I'm sure you knew that I
was... would might possibly bring it up tonight, uh, there's an election coming up you're, uh, you're out of politics now but you're speaking, and as I say, you're going around the country. Do you envision a possibility say in '76 if the
convention say was deadlocked. I'm giving you all the theories and so forth and the conservatives took over possibly and
got control of the, us, of the electoral process and they couldn't quite make a decision and they came to you and said "Governor Reagan uh we can't decide between Mr., uh, Ford and Mr. Rockefeller, we're divided um would you like to uh would you like to go to the White House."

Reagan: Uh, you remember that answer I gave you about the C.I.A.?

Carson: Yeah. ''(Laughter)'' Come on, I know... I'm not gonna buy them. Now I can understand the C.I.A. now but uh... I thought that was delicately phrased.

Reagan: Yes. Verbose but delicate.

Carson: Yeah, verbose but delicate.

Reagan: That one I, um, no I think it's an unanswerable question. I don't think anyone in view of the things that are going on the last few years knows what's going to happen in the in the next two years, down the road. I think that everyone should hope and pray that people are there will do the job so well there won't be any question about it because if they do then everything's all right with the rest of us, uh,

Carson: Do you think they're doing their job well?

Reagan: Well I agree with some things and disagree with others. When they... when they give me a... when they give me a choice between a 53 billion dollar deficit in the budget and an 80 billion dollar deficit, <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">when budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's any room to be on either side of that argument. I think the answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget.

Carson: Now how do you do that? I mean how do you balance the budget?

Reagan: Well balancing the budget is like protecting...

Carson: You don't spend more than you take in.

Reagan: Right. It's like protecting your virtue. You have to learn to say no.

''(Applause)''

Carson: There's got to be another way. ''(Laughter)'' What's the second option?

Reagan: Well, no, there's some ways that this could be brought about first of all that limitation. Here's another one.
Why shouldn't we have in addition to a simplified income tax why shouldn't we also have a law that says that anytime a legislator a congressman introduces a spending program he has to introduce with it a tax program to pay for it then let the people find out.

There was a woman that... from a financial firm that was back at the president's Economic Council and her words weren't quoted... Everybody else's words got in the paper, all the [[wikipedia:Walter_Heller|Hellers]] and the [[wikipedia:John_Kenneth_Galbraith|Galbraiths]] and all the so-called economists. And I had... I have a degree in economics so I can say this, I think an economist is someone who has a [[75-10-A2|Phi Beta Kappa key on one end of his watch chain and no watch on the other]].<BR />
<BR />
Uh, this woman said that you go to the polls and you ask the people do they want some social service... some program that government can give and the people in the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good, yeah. But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says put a 100 bill in each person's hand and then show them the program and say, "Now isn't that a nice program? Do you want it? Give me the hundred dollars." and she says see what the poll says then and how many people hang on with a hundred dollars instead of the program.

Carson: in other words it was rather hidden and someone doesn't know exactly where it's going to come...

Reagan: They all start... all the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch you later. And... and they they multiply all of those things that you would...<BR />
<BR />
the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, that's responsible for the budget, putting up putting the budget
together, cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal
government. But all of them can pass regulations and those regulations have the force of law. And the difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until proven guilty, when you break a regulation the fellow that charges you with a breaking the regulation, you're guilty.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: If you want to take him to court and prove you're innocent that's up to you. And all of these are things that that... um yes we can trim the budget. there's enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world.</SPAN>

Carson: You, uh now you took... ''(Applause)'' They took a poll of the American people the past week and I think 78 percent, or something around 75 percent were opposed to more military aid to Vietnam and Cambodia and southeast Asia in general and yet the administration uh was trying to tell the American people that a couple hundred million or 222 million dollars would make some kind of difference or that the government might make it. And, uh, how do you feel you think that that is a lost cause in a way? I think people can see humanitarian, you know, for children hospitals, et cetera, and medical supplies, and food but it seems that the public has just almost had it up with military involvement where we feel we are not directly threatened.

Reagan: Well, we we are, uh, fed up. We're war-weary after a long and badly fought war. On the other hand, and this is one where I'll probably lose a lot of people because it isn't popular or political to say this today. When we withdrew our troops we made a ceasefire, a peace agreement and it was based on, uh, supporting the non-communist forces in Indochina on a basis of one-for-one replacement, every bullet they expended, a bullet to replace it, if the communists violated the ceasefire. The Communists have violated the ceasefire 72 thousand times, since it was instituted and we brought our men home and I think for the United States to break its word, we're in that agreement we pledge, something and the Congress is now saying that the United States reserves the right to just break its word and not... What other allies ever going to trust us and I, um, there's no question that backed by Red China and the Soviet Union the Communist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia are on their way to take those over. They do, of course, Laos just automatically falls
then they're on the edge of Indonesia, 140 million people which comes within miles, at its nearest point, of the
Philippines. The Domino Theory is...

Carson: Is it still a viable theory?

Reagan: Yes it is and I... I could see the United States one day being very very lonely. Now it's a very funny thing that the same forces that want to cut our defense spending are the same ones that want to increase all these social services and this social tinkering and experimenting that hasn't worked and every time it doesn't work they just impose a more expensive program on top of it. I think the American people, if they really look at all the facts, uh, yes we want fiscal responsibility but I think we also want a country that is strong enough at all times that we can say to any adventurous guys over there on the other side of the water you better look twice brother before you start getting rough
that we can take care of ourselves. ''(Applause)''

Carson: As you said... you even before you made the statement that would probably get mixed with your, uh, uh, reaction.

Reagan: I can understand that. People aren't, and it's hard to understand how maybe your interest is involved
10 000 miles away, but Russia seems concerned that their interests extend all the way to Cuba and to South America to Chile and to other countries of that kind and they're the ones that have said they're going to impose their way of life and the rest of the world. We haven't said we want to do it to the rest of the world our way.

Carson: Let me ask you one more question before you go. Let us assume that there's a third party, that neither party seems to go...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: Uh you like this approach already, huh? Uh and they're thrown into disarray as they say and a third party is formed. You think that'll ever happen in this country? That a third party will be a major type of uh alternate to what we have well?

Reagan: I'd still prefer to see a revitalization of the two major parties we have because the two-party system has served us very well. Third parties have a notorious way of not being successful. Now the Republican party, some people say, well that was a third party 100 years ago when it started. It actually wasn't, it was a second party. The Whig party had shrunk and shrunk and then the remainder of the Whig party said the two other groups that had formed parties, 'Hey want to get together with us?' They changed their name and called themselves the other party and so it was in effect the Whigs just disappeared. It was a new second party.

Uh, maybe this is time... <SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">maybe it's time for, uh, realignment between people who might be finding themselves in the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting... I was a Democrat most of my life, I became a Republican only not too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of telling some of those people that are saying the Republican party ought to broaden its base the other day that, uh, when I switched parties I didn't do it because the two parties were alike, I did it because they were different. And I think that the two parties ought to stand up as to what they represent... what they stand for.</SPAN>

A third party I they have a way of electing the wrong people they because they simply divide themselves from the other forces that feel the same way and then the other fellow sneaks in and then I'd... it, it could happen that the that neither party would would represent what the people want and finally the people would take some action do something about it but I'd, I'd rather devote our effort to seeing if we can't find out what the present two parties stand for and which one we want.

Carson: But you don't see yourself, or do you see yourself as maybe as a part of that actively, active politically again. I certainly don't give up do I?

Reagan: Uh, yeah, you... you... you sure... sure don't. I wish I could think of a good get-off line.

Carson: I have [[wikipedia:Lawrence_Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]]'s old questions you know for that.

Reagan: Nancy, Nancy you know said to say hello tonight she thought it was great that we're both in town at the same time.

Carson: You too? I get that. Thanks for being with us tonight, really.

Reagan: It's a pleasure to see you again.
</DIV>

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= Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson =

On December 24, 2024, Elon Musk [[xpost:1871520121212346496|posted on X]] (formerly Twitter) a short video of Ronald Reagan talking to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, adding only "Very Wise Words." The 7:43 clip went viral.<BR/>
(The portions of the full video that are included in the clip will be emphasized in the transcript below.)

This clip was a portion of a 20+ minute [[yt:xrNKguJLUYE|Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]. Reagan had just recently ended his terms as governor of California and would have just started recording his [[Reagan_Radio_Commentaries|short-form radio show]], as well as writing a syndicated newspaper column.

There seems to be some confusion in the Youtube video as to when this occurred. The video from the Reagan Foundation claims it was January 3, 1975, but sources such as [[wikipedia:List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson_episodes_(1975)#March|Wikipedia]], [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983692/?ref_=ttep_ep IMDB] and the videos available from the [https://www.youtube.com/@johnnycarson Johnny Carson Youtube channel], indicate the video is from March 13, 1975. This fits the early discussion, in which Reagan jokes about having been "unemployed" for a couple months.

== Transcript ==

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Carson: My first guest tonight is, uh, rather a phenomenon on a political scene as a citizen politician. Making his first try for public office, he was elected California's 33rd governor in 1966 by a majority of something around over a million votes. And he held that office, as you know, for eight years. And he used to joke that in his earlier profession he used to ride off in a sunset with the words "The End" on his back. But there are those who would say that Ronald Reagan... that 1975 may only be the beginning. Would you all complete the former governor of California, Ronald Reagan.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />
<BR />
Nice to see you.

Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment.

Carson: That's right, uh, how does it feel to be, uh, well you're not really unemployed now because I know you're doing a syndicated column and, um, for many who's been around 120 papers I think, and the radio show and on the lecture tour but how does it feel to be, I don't want to use the word, temporarily out of politics or not but we'll get into that later, uh, how's it feel to be away from Sacramento?

Reagan: Well it's doing what I'm doing I wanted to for a long time, it's very exciting and um there's mixed emotions when you step down there's always things that you had left undone that you'd like to have done but then uh all of a sudden the curtain's pulled and that chapter's over and uh...

Carson: Somebody else takes over. Did you have any major disappointments? What would you like to have done, your biggest disappointment, maybe your biggest highlight in office as you look back on it.

Reagan: Well, uh, I'll start with the biggest highlight. The first of all... was proving that some things I'd long believed as a citizen would work. That you could introduce common sense in government and after the first traumatic shock you kind of made some of it work. We, um, we came into quite a... a mess and at the end of eight years... You know government, in the United States, federal, state and local, has been growing for 20 years, in size, about two and a half times as fast as the increase in population... except for the last eight years in California.<BR />
We turned over a government that was the same size as the one we inherited eight years ago. There'd been no growth and in some departments this meant an increase of as much as 66 percent in the workload. But, um, part of that was the welfare reforms.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: Welfare was increasing here in California 40,000 cases a month and we left with about 400,000 fewer
people on welfare than there were four years ago. This saved the taxpayers about a billion dollars but what was equally important we were spread so thin we couldn't do what we should have done for, uh, the really needy, the really deserving and we were able to increase their grants by way of those reforms 43 percent.<BR />
Now you asked for what was the greatest disappointment the people handed it to us when, I think they were deceived, but when they voted down the tax limitation plan. I still say that the answer to our problems in this country even at the National level is to have a law that says there is a percentage limit of the people's earnings that government cannot go beyond without the consent of the people.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />

Carson: You're talking about... You're talking about the gross income of the country and how much they can appropriate for us...

Reagan: That's right.

Carson: ... for federal projects.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: See... when, um, when you and I were boys back in the Midwest...</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Right....</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Governments, federal state and local were only taking about 15 cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost half of every dollar earned in the United States and most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in the so-called business taxes, you know, the politician that stands up and yells, "Oh let's save the little man, let's tax business" and everybody yells "hurray". They haven't figured out that every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production and the customer winds up paying it when he buys the product. It's a hidden sales tax. There's 116 of them in a... the suit of clothes that each one of us is wearing.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: Uh-huh. So a lot of economists have suggested, and I don't know they'll ever come to be in this country, that they're... if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations and maybe tax loopholes and even on the rich certain loopholes and and made a percentage income and made a flat fee without all of the deductions that the government might raise as much money as they do now.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: Oh sure and really the loopholes, this has been overdone by the politicians too. The bulk of the money that is taken by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people didn't have them they couldn't pay their income tax; interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their... on their car, their property taxes on their home, if they have one and so forth. These are, in politicians eyes, loopholes. But we ought to have tax reform and we ought to start by making it so simple that you don't have to hire a lawyer to find out how much you owe every year.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: That's for sure... it used to be, uh... it used to be a little simplified but not anymore.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: We... Johnny, we live in the only country in a world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income.</SPAN>

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Carson: [Laughs] You might be right.<BR /></SPAN>
Why do you think people are so they seem to be so disheartened now?<BR />
I know... Let's not get into the Watergate thing but that certainly had something to do with the, uh, the antipathy, I think, of a lot of people toward government, now we we see these revelations, of whether their revelations, or at least accusations that possibly the C.I.A. has been involved in some operations that they shouldn't have been involved in, certainly domestically, and people regularly get turned off. How do you... How do you turn people around and say "All right now, we're not going to do this anymore," and every day you see more of these things and I think people withdraw further and further and that's too bad.

Reagan: I know and I think part of it is because we're being bludgeoned every day... it's news... bad things are news we just every day we pick up and they read and record another tenth of a percent unemployment and so forth.<BR />
We keep hearing the the bad things... we hear the accusations and we're kind of used to accepting the accusation as proof of guilt. Now I'm [[wikipedia:United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States|on the C.I.A. Commission]], so I'm rather limited... I cannot talk at this stage...

Carson: True.

Reagan: But I think one of the sad things is that the American people cannot know instead, frankly, we have to have a counter intelligence organization for our own safety. If the American people knew the extent to which were being spied on by the Russians, they'd throw détente out the window and Brezhnev and a few fellows with it.

Carson: Well, obviously, I agree that... that has to go on internationally to protect your national security but when they start looking at, you know, their own their own congressmen and own private citizens who's only a threat to national security seem to be to voice some difference of opinions that's going a little over the line isn't it.

Reagan: No because... well again as I say we...

Carson: Oh that's right you can't...

Reagan: We can't... we can't give any progress report for you...

Carson: You want to speak into the ashtray here and tell me privately.

Reagan: All I'd say to the people is wait until the report comes in and I think when a report comes in, uh um, maybe they might be greatly reassured.

Carson: I didn't mean to put you behind the eight ball there I realize of course you're on that commission and you couldn't expand on that. Let's take a brief break and we'll come right back and get on another subject

''(Commercial Break, 7:27)''

Carson: We're talking with, uh, former governor Reagan and uh during the break we were discussing what I mentioned, uh, that I thought most people uh were not apathetic I think they're confused, basically, because you hear intelligent people from both political parties or in the middle, conservatives and liberals, and they all seem to have different answers as to what is going wrong in the country. Some people say well let's let the government spend billions of dollars and then other people say no no more federal spending, uh, let's give the tax rebates, and the other intelligent people say no tax rebates we've got to do this and do that so everybody is confused how do you see the thing what how are we going to get out of this?

Reagan: Well, Johnny I think that one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer and government's the problem. ''(Applause)'' You... A moment ago you asked you know about people and feeling not only confused but low and and down in America.<BR />
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around... you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on Earth. And we've asked so much of government and we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves and if government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks we'd never miss them.<BR />
Now the... if the people...

Carson: Anybody you had in mind, particularly?

Reagan: No, I said this while I was in government.

Carson: Okay.

Reagan: Our biggest problem is that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal state and local, the permanent employees and they've come to the place that they actually determine policy in this country more than does the Congress of the United States. There are 14 and a half million public employees in the United States, that's quite a voting bloc, and the bureaus and agencies not in Washington...<BR />
I heard you talking earlier about some of the research programs. Well there was a senator the other day, and he took up some pages of the Congressional Record. He was doing the same thing you were, listing all these crazy research programs and how much they were costing and wound up his speech by introducing his own. He wants a study in a research of transcendental meditation.<BR />
So you know there's a state senator in Michigan, and he just found out the other day, they got a $93,000 study on whether chitlins are bad for you, and and he said that as a fourth generation chitlin eater he figured that he could tell you how for 93 cents you can find out the answer to that.

Carson: No we laugh at those things but they do happen, I guess.

Reagan: Oh, listen there, you had... you had some beauties, and there's some others. What would you say if I told you about one, a study, in which... this was called the um, the [[75-01-A4|Demography of Happiness]]. And in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people; they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less; and they found out that well people are happier than sick people.

Carson: That's good. Glad to know that.

Reagan: $249,000 to find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy than old, poor, and sick.

''(Laughter and Applause)''

Carson: So, when you say now that it's the government may be the problem, so... so what do people do?<BR />
They have to look to somebody and you say if they look for themselves that's uh... It may be good advice, but how
about somebody who's on a, you know a social security pension or a pension they're trying to live on a $150 per month you know, they have to look to somebody, I guess...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: They're saying "Hey we can't make it, we can't afford to go to a doctor."

Reagan: Well 62% of the people can't stay home in an election and cure things as we did in the last election.

Carson: I just read this week... on... I heard this week on the radio they dropped 300,000 voters from the Los Angeles roll because they didn't take the time to go to the polls in the last election. Three hundred thousand people!

Reagan: The lowest percentage in history only 38 percent of the people voted in the national election and this means that people aren't paying any attention to what, well, here a poll was taken recently that found out that only 46 percent of the people in the poll could name their United States Congressman. But what was worse 86 percent of those who could name him, couldn't tell you a single thing that he represented or stood for.

Carson: They just knew that he represented the state...

Reagan: He was a congressman but what's he doing while he's up there and the same is true at the at the local levels of government and... and all the rest. But uh...

Carson: So you're saying people really have to take an active interest and you have to have, uh, citizen action groups locally and uh...

Reagan: And let them know ''[crosstalk]''<BR />
Now the special interest groups aren't as everyone thought big powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade government to do things as a matter of fact I don't know anyone with less influence today in government
than business they're just a convenient whipping boy. but it's the groups that have got a particular axe to grind
you can't have a power plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.<BR />
<BR />
Now I think I'm an environmentalist and I do not agree with those people way over the edge who paved the whole country over in the name of progress, but also I don't like those on the other extreme that won't let you build a house unless it looks like a bird's nest someplace in the middle we got to allow... people are ecology too.<BR />

Carson: Right...

Reagan: Well this kind of group and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to to clear up the air. We're the only country in the world that set out to do it that way. The automobile industry, over and over again, told government if they give them more time, the answer lay in making the motor more efficient and making it burn the fuel better and... when they were given the limited time there was only one thing they could turn to... that was the add-ons that you had to go.

Carson: And, uh, the verdict is really kind of still out on on those whether they're going to add more sulfuric acid to the to the air or not.

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: What do you think is going to happen... Now you've been asked this question... I'm sure you knew that I
was... would might possibly bring it up tonight, uh, there's an election coming up you're, uh, you're out of politics now but you're speaking, and as I say, you're going around the country. Do you envision a possibility say in '76 if the
convention say was deadlocked. I'm giving you all the theories and so forth and the conservatives took over possibly and
got control of the, us, of the electoral process and they couldn't quite make a decision and they came to you and said "Governor Reagan uh we can't decide between Mr., uh, Ford and Mr. Rockefeller, we're divided um would you like to uh would you like to go to the White House."

Reagan: Uh, you remember that answer I gave you about the C.I.A.?

Carson: Yeah. ''(Laughter)'' Come on, I know... I'm not gonna buy them. Now I can understand the C.I.A. now but uh... I thought that was delicately phrased.

Reagan: Yes. Verbose but delicate.

Carson: Yeah, verbose but delicate.

Reagan: That one I, um, no I think it's an unanswerable question. I don't think anyone in view of the things that are going on the last few years knows what's going to happen in the in the next two years, down the road. I think that everyone should hope and pray that people are there will do the job so well there won't be any question about it because if they do then everything's all right with the rest of us, uh,

Carson: Do you think they're doing their job well?

Reagan: Well I agree with some things and disagree with others. When they... when they give me a... when they give me a choice between a 53 billion dollar deficit in the budget and an 80 billion dollar deficit, when budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's any room to be on either side of that argument. I think the answer to
curing inflation is a balanced budget.

Carson: Now how do you do that? I mean how do you balance the budget?

Reagan: Well balancing the budget is like protecting...

Carson: You don't spend more than you take in.

Reagan: Right. It's like protecting your virtue. You have to learn to say no.

''(Applause)''

Carson: There's got to be another way. ''(Laughter)'' What's the second option?

Reagan: Well, no, there's some ways that this could be brought about first of all that limitation. Here's another one.
Why shouldn't we have in addition to a simplified income tax why shouldn't we also have a law that says that anytime a legislator a congressman introduces a spending program he has to introduce with it a tax program to pay for it then let the people find out.

There was a woman that from a financial firm that was back at the president's Economic Council and her words weren't quoted... Everybody else's words got in the paper, all the [[wikipedia:Walter_Heller|Hellers]] and the [[wikipedia:John_Kenneth_Galbraith|Galbraiths]] and all the so-called economists. And I had... I have a degree in economics so I can say this, I think an economist is someone who has a [[75-10-A2|Phi Beta Kappa key on one end of his watch chain and no watch on the other]].<BR />
<BR />
Uh, this woman said that you go to the polls and you ask the people do they want some social service... some program that government can give and the people in the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good, yeah.

Reagan: But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says put a 100 bill in each person's hand and then show them the program and say, "Now isn't that a nice program? Do you want it? Give me the hundred dollars." and she says see what the poll says then and how many people hang on with a hundred dollars instead of the program.

Carson: in other words it was rather hidden and someone doesn't know exactly where it's going to come...

Reagan: They all start... all the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch you later. And... and they they multiply all of those things that you would...<BR />
<BR />
the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, that's responsible for the budget, putting up putting the budget
together, cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal
government. But all of them can pass regulations and those regulations have the force of law. And the difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until proven guilty, when you break a regulation the fellow that charges you with a breaking the regulation, you're guilty.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: If you want to take him to court and prove you're innocent that's up to you. And all of these are things that that... um yes we can trim the budget. there's enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world.

Carson: You, uh now you took... ''(Applause)'' They took a poll of the American people the past week and I think 78 percent, or something around 75 percent were opposed to more military aid to Vietnam and Cambodia and southeast Asia in general and yet the administration uh was trying to tell the American people that a couple hundred million or 222 million dollars would make some kind of difference or that the government might make it. And, uh, how do you feel you think that that is a lost cause in a way? I think people can see humanitarian, you know, for children hospitals, et cetera, and medical supplies, and food but it seems that the public has just almost had it up with military involvement where we feel we are not directly threatened.

Reagan: Well, we we are, uh, fed up. We're war-weary after a long and badly fought war. On the other hand, and this is one where I'll probably lose a lot of people because it isn't popular or political to say this today. When we withdrew our troops we made a ceasefire, a peace agreement and it was based on, uh, supporting the non-communist forces in Indochina on a basis of one-for-one replacement, every bullet they expended, a bullet to replace it, if the communists violated the ceasefire. The Communists have violated the ceasefire 72 thousand times, since it was instituted and we brought our men home and I think for the United States to break its word, we're in that agreement we pledge, something and the Congress is now saying that the United States reserves the right to just break its word and not... What other allies ever going to trust us and I, um, there's no question that backed by Red China and the Soviet Union the Communist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia are on their way to take those over. They do, of course, Laos just automatically falls
then they're on the edge of Indonesia, 140 million people which comes within miles, at its nearest point, of the
Philippines. The Domino Theory is...

Carson: Is it still a viable theory?

Reagan: Yes it is and I... I could see the United States one day being very very lonely. Now it's a very funny thing that the same forces that want to cut our defense spending are the same ones that want to increase all these social services and this social tinkering and experimenting that hasn't worked and every time it doesn't work they just impose a more expensive program on top of it. I think the American people, if they really look at all the facts, uh, yes we want fiscal responsibility but I think we also want a country that is strong enough at all times that we can say to any adventurous guys over there on the other side of the water you better look twice brother before you start getting rough
that we can take care of ourselves. ''(Applause)''

Carson: As you said... you even before you made the statement that would probably get mixed with your, uh, uh, reaction.

Reagan: I can understand that. People aren't, and it's hard to understand how maybe your interest is involved
10 000 miles away, but Russia seems concerned that their interests extend all the way to Cuba and to South America to Chile and to other countries of that kind and they're the ones that have said they're going to impose their way of life and the rest of the world. We haven't said we want to do it to the rest of the world our way.

Carson: Let me ask you one more question before you go. Let us assume that there's a third party, that neither party seems to go...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: Uh you like this approach already, huh? Uh and they're thrown into disarray as they say and a third party is formed. You think that'll ever happen in this country? That a third party will be a major type of uh alternate to what we have well?

Reagan: I'd still prefer to see a revitalization of the two major parties we have because the two-party system has served us very well. Third parties have a notorious way of not being successful. Now the Republican party, some people say, well that was a third party 100 years ago when it started. It actually wasn't, it was a second party. The Whig party had shrunk and shrunk and then the remainder of the Whig party said the two other groups that had formed parties, 'Hey want to get together with us?' They changed their name and called themselves the other party and so it was in effect the Whigs just disappeared. It was a new second party.

Uh, maybe this is time... maybe it's time for, uh, realignment between people who might be finding themselves in the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting... I was a Democrat most of my life, I became a Republican only not too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of telling some of those people that are saying the Republican party ought to broaden its base the other day that, uh, when I switched parties I didn't do it because the two parties were alike, I did it because they were different. And I think that the two parties ought to stand up as to what they represent... what they stand for.

A third party I they have a way of electing the wrong people they because they simply divide themselves from the other forces that feel the same way and then the other fellow sneaks in and then I'd... it, it could happen that the that neither party would would represent what the people want and finally the people would take some action do something about it but I'd, I'd rather devote our effort to seeing if we can't find out what the present two parties stand for and which one we want.

Carson: But you don't see yourself, or do you see yourself as maybe as a part of that actively, active politically again. I certainly don't give up do I?

Reagan: Uh, yeah, you... you... you sure... sure don't. I wish I could think of a good get-off line.

Carson: I have [[wikipedia:Lawrence_Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]]'s old questions you know for that.

Reagan: Nancy, Nancy you know said to say hello tonight she thought it was great that we're both in town at the same time.

Carson: You too? I get that. Thanks for being with us tonight, really.

Reagan: It's a pleasure to see you again.
</DIV>

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= Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson =

On December 24, 2024, Elon Musk [[xpost:1871520121212346496|posted on X]] (formerly Twitter) a short video of Ronald Reagan talking to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, adding only "Very Wise Words." The 7:43 clip went viral.<BR/>
(The portions of the full video that are included in the clip will be emphasized in the transcript below.)

This clip was a portion of a 20+ minute [[yt:xrNKguJLUYE|Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]. Reagan had just recently ended his terms as governor of California and would have just started recording his [[Reagan_Radio_Commentaries|short-form radio show]], as well as writing a syndicated newspaper column.

There seems to be some confusion in the Youtube video as to when this occurred. The video from the Reagan Foundation claims it was January 3, 1975, but sources such as [[wikipedia:List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson_episodes_(1975)#March|Wikipedia]], [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983692/?ref_=ttep_ep IMDB] and the videos available from the [https://www.youtube.com/@johnnycarson Johnny Carson Youtube channel], indicate the video is from March 13, 1975. This fits the early discussion, in which Reagan jokes about having been "unemployed" for a couple months.

== Transcript ==

<DIV STYLE="padding-left: 7ch; text-indent: -7ch;">
Carson: My first guest tonight is, uh, rather a phenomenon on a political scene as a citizen politician. Making his first try for public office, he was elected California's 33rd governor in 1966 by a majority of something around over a million votes. And he held that office, as you know, for eight years. And he used to joke that in his earlier profession he used to ride off in a sunset with the words "The End" on his back. But there are those who would say that Ronald Reagan... that 1975 may only be the beginning. Would you all complete the former governor of California, Ronald Reagan.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />
<BR />
Nice to see you.

Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment.

Carson: That's right, uh, how does it feel to be, uh, well you're not really unemployed now because I know you're doing a syndicated column and, um, for many who's been around 120 papers I think, and the radio show and on the lecture tour but how does it feel to be, I don't want to use the word, temporarily out of politics or not but we'll get into that later, uh, how's it feel to be away from Sacramento?

Reagan: Well it's doing what I'm doing I wanted to for a long time, it's very exciting and um there's mixed emotions when you step down there's always things that you had left undone that you'd like to have done but then uh all of a sudden the curtain's pulled and that chapter's over and uh...

Carson: Somebody else takes over. Did you have any major disappointments? What would you like to have done, your biggest disappointment, maybe your biggest highlight in office as you look back on it.

Reagan: Well, uh, I'll start with the biggest highlight. The first of all... was proving that some things I'd long believed as a citizen would work. That you could introduce common sense in government and after the first traumatic shock you kind of made some of it work. We, um, we came into quite a... a mess and at the end of eight years... You know government, in the United States, federal, state and local, has been growing for 20 years, in size, about two and a half times as fast as the increase in population... except for the last eight years in California.<BR />
We turned over a government that was the same size as the one we inherited eight years ago. There'd been no growth and in some departments this meant an increase of as much as 66 percent in the workload. But, um, part of that was the welfare reforms.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: Welfare was increasing here in California 40,000 cases a month and we left with about 400,000 fewer
people on welfare than there were four years ago. This saved the taxpayers about a billion dollars but what was equally important we were spread so thin we couldn't do what we should have done for, uh, the really needy, the really deserving and we were able to increase their grants by way of those reforms 43 percent.<BR />
Now you asked for what was the greatest disappointment the people handed it to us when, I think they were deceived, but when they voted down the tax limitation plan. I still say that the answer to our problems in this country even at the National level is to have a law that says there is a percentage limit of the people's earnings that government cannot go beyond without the consent of the people.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />

Carson: You're talking about... You're talking about the gross income of the country and how much they can appropriate for us...

Reagan: That's right.

Carson: ... for federal projects.

<DIV STYLE="background-color: yellow;">Reagan: See... when, um, when you and I were boys back in the Midwest...

Carson: Right....

Reagan: Governments, federal state and local were only taking about 15 cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're
taking almost half of every dollar earned in the United States and most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in the so-called business taxes, you know, the politician that stands up and yells, "Oh let's save the little man, let's tax business" and everybody yells "hurray". They haven't figured out that every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production and the customer winds up paying it when he buys the product. It's a hidden sales tax. There's 116 of them in a... the suit of clothes that each one of us is wearing.

Carson: Uh-huh. So a lot of economists have suggested, and I don't know they'll ever come to be in this country, that they're... if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations and maybe tax loopholes and even on the rich certain loopholes and and made a percentage income and made a flat fee without all of the deductions that the government might raise as much money as they do now.

Reagan: Oh sure and really the loopholes, this has been overdone by the politicians too. The bulk of the money that is taken by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people didn't have them they couldn't pay their income tax; interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their... on their car, their property taxes on their home, if they have one and so forth. These are, in politicians eyes, loopholes. But we ought to have tax reform and we ought to start by making it so simple that you don't have to hire a lawyer to find out how much you owe every year.

Carson: That's for sure... it used to be, uh... it used to be a little simplified but not anymore.

Reagan: We... Johnny, we live in the only country in a world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income.

Carson: [Laughs] You might be right.<BR /></DIV>
Why do you think people are so they seem to be so disheartened now?<BR />
I know... Let's not get into the Watergate thing but that certainly had something to do with the, uh, the antipathy, I think, of a lot of people toward government, now we we see these revelations, of whether their revelations, or at least accusations that possibly the C.I.A. has been involved in some operations that they shouldn't have been involved in, certainly domestically, and people regularly get turned off. How do you... How do you turn people around and say "All right now, we're not going to do this anymore," and every day you see more of these things and I think people withdraw further and further and that's too bad.

Reagan: I know and I think part of it is because we're being bludgeoned every day... it's news... bad things are news we just every day we pick up and they read and record another tenth of a percent unemployment and so forth.<BR />
We keep hearing the the bad things... we hear the accusations and we're kind of used to accepting the accusation as proof of guilt. Now I'm [[wikipedia:United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States|on the C.I.A. Commission]], so I'm rather limited... I cannot talk at this stage...

Carson: True.

Reagan: But I think one of the sad things is that the American people cannot know instead, frankly, we have to have a counter intelligence organization for our own safety. If the American people knew the extent to which were being spied on by the Russians, they'd throw détente out the window and Brezhnev and a few fellows with it.

Carson: Well, obviously, I agree that... that has to go on internationally to protect your national security but when they start looking at, you know, their own their own congressmen and own private citizens who's only a threat to national security seem to be to voice some difference of opinions that's going a little over the line isn't it.

Reagan: No because... well again as I say we...

Carson: Oh that's right you can't...

Reagan: We can't... we can't give any progress report for you...

Carson: You want to speak into the ashtray here and tell me privately.

Reagan: All I'd say to the people is wait until the report comes in and I think when a report comes in, uh um, maybe they might be greatly reassured.

Carson: I didn't mean to put you behind the eight ball there I realize of course you're on that commission and you couldn't expand on that. Let's take a brief break and we'll come right back and get on another subject

''(Commercial Break, 7:27)''

Carson: We're talking with, uh, former governor Reagan and uh during the break we were discussing what I mentioned, uh, that I thought most people uh were not apathetic I think they're confused, basically, because you hear intelligent people from both political parties or in the middle, conservatives and liberals, and they all seem to have different answers as to what is going wrong in the country. Some people say well let's let the government spend billions of dollars and then other people say no no more federal spending, uh, let's give the tax rebates, and the other intelligent people say no tax rebates we've got to do this and do that so everybody is confused how do you see the thing what how are we going to get out of this?

Reagan: Well, Johnny I think that one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer and government's the problem. ''(Applause)'' You... A moment ago you asked you know about people and feeling not only confused but low and and down in America.<BR />
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around... you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on Earth. And we've asked so much of government and we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves and if government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks we'd never miss them.<BR />
Now the... if the people...

Carson: Anybody you had in mind, particularly?

Reagan: No, I said this while I was in government.

Carson: Okay.

Reagan: Our biggest problem is that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal state and local, the permanent employees and they've come to the place that they actually determine policy in this country more than does the Congress of the United States. There are 14 and a half million public employees in the United States, that's quite a voting bloc, and the bureaus and agencies not in Washington...<BR />
I heard you talking earlier about some of the research programs. Well there was a senator the other day, and he took up some pages of the Congressional Record. He was doing the same thing you were, listing all these crazy research programs and how much they were costing and wound up his speech by introducing his own. He wants a study in a research of transcendental meditation.<BR />
So you know there's a state senator in Michigan, and he just found out the other day, they got a $93,000 study on whether chitlins are bad for you, and and he said that as a fourth generation chitlin eater he figured that he could tell you how for 93 cents you can find out the answer to that.

Carson: No we laugh at those things but they do happen, I guess.

Reagan: Oh, listen there, you had... you had some beauties, and there's some others. What would you say if I told you about one, a study, in which... this was called the um, the [[75-01-A4|Demography of Happiness]]. And in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people; they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less; and they found out that well people are happier than sick people.

Carson: That's good. Glad to know that.

Reagan: $249,000 to find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy than old, poor, and sick.

''(Laughter and Applause)''

Carson: So, when you say now that it's the government may be the problem, so... so what do people do?<BR />
They have to look to somebody and you say if they look for themselves that's uh... It may be good advice, but how
about somebody who's on a, you know a social security pension or a pension they're trying to live on a $150 per month you know, they have to look to somebody, I guess...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: They're saying "Hey we can't make it, we can't afford to go to a doctor."

Reagan: Well 62% of the people can't stay home in an election and cure things as we did in the last election.

Carson: I just read this week... on... I heard this week on the radio they dropped 300,000 voters from the Los Angeles roll because they didn't take the time to go to the polls in the last election. Three hundred thousand people!

Reagan: The lowest percentage in history only 38 percent of the people voted in the national election and this means that people aren't paying any attention to what, well, here a poll was taken recently that found out that only 46 percent of the people in the poll could name their United States Congressman. But what was worse 86 percent of those who could name him, couldn't tell you a single thing that he represented or stood for.

Carson: They just knew that he represented the state...

Reagan: He was a congressman but what's he doing while he's up there and the same is true at the at the local levels of government and... and all the rest. But uh...

Carson: So you're saying people really have to take an active interest and you have to have, uh, citizen action groups locally and uh...

Reagan: And let them know ''[crosstalk]''<BR />
Now the special interest groups aren't as everyone thought big powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade government to do things as a matter of fact I don't know anyone with less influence today in government
than business they're just a convenient whipping boy. but it's the groups that have got a particular axe to grind
you can't have a power plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.<BR />
<BR />
Now I think I'm an environmentalist and I do not agree with those people way over the edge who paved the whole country over in the name of progress, but also I don't like those on the other extreme that won't let you build a house unless it looks like a bird's nest someplace in the middle we got to allow... people are ecology too.<BR />

Carson: Right...

Reagan: Well this kind of group and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to to clear up the air. We're the only country in the world that set out to do it that way. The automobile industry, over and over again, told government if they give them more time, the answer lay in making the motor more efficient and making it burn the fuel better and... when they were given the limited time there was only one thing they could turn to... that was the add-ons that you had to go.

Carson: And, uh, the verdict is really kind of still out on on those whether they're going to add more sulfuric acid to the to the air or not.

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: What do you think is going to happen... Now you've been asked this question... I'm sure you knew that I
was... would might possibly bring it up tonight, uh, there's an election coming up you're, uh, you're out of politics now but you're speaking, and as I say, you're going around the country. Do you envision a possibility say in '76 if the
convention say was deadlocked. I'm giving you all the theories and so forth and the conservatives took over possibly and
got control of the, us, of the electoral process and they couldn't quite make a decision and they came to you and said "Governor Reagan uh we can't decide between Mr., uh, Ford and Mr. Rockefeller, we're divided um would you like to uh would you like to go to the White House."

Reagan: Uh, you remember that answer I gave you about the C.I.A.?

Carson: Yeah. ''(Laughter)'' Come on, I know... I'm not gonna buy them. Now I can understand the C.I.A. now but uh... I thought that was delicately phrased.

Reagan: Yes. Verbose but delicate.

Carson: Yeah, verbose but delicate.

Reagan: That one I, um, no I think it's an unanswerable question. I don't think anyone in view of the things that are going on the last few years knows what's going to happen in the in the next two years, down the road. I think that everyone should hope and pray that people are there will do the job so well there won't be any question about it because if they do then everything's all right with the rest of us, uh,

Carson: Do you think they're doing their job well?

Reagan: Well I agree with some things and disagree with others. When they... when they give me a... when they give me a choice between a 53 billion dollar deficit in the budget and an 80 billion dollar deficit, when budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's any room to be on either side of that argument. I think the answer to
curing inflation is a balanced budget.

Carson: Now how do you do that? I mean how do you balance the budget?

Reagan: Well balancing the budget is like protecting...

Carson: You don't spend more than you take in.

Reagan: Right. It's like protecting your virtue. You have to learn to say no.

''(Applause)''

Carson: There's got to be another way. ''(Laughter)'' What's the second option?

Reagan: Well, no, there's some ways that this could be brought about first of all that limitation. Here's another one.
Why shouldn't we have in addition to a simplified income tax why shouldn't we also have a law that says that anytime a legislator a congressman introduces a spending program he has to introduce with it a tax program to pay for it then let the people find out.

There was a woman that from a financial firm that was back at the president's Economic Council and her words weren't quoted... Everybody else's words got in the paper, all the [[wikipedia:Walter_Heller|Hellers]] and the [[wikipedia:John_Kenneth_Galbraith|Galbraiths]] and all the so-called economists. And I had... I have a degree in economics so I can say this, I think an economist is someone who has a [[75-10-A2|Phi Beta Kappa key on one end of his watch chain and no watch on the other]].<BR />
<BR />
Uh, this woman said that you go to the polls and you ask the people do they want some social service... some program that government can give and the people in the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good, yeah.

Reagan: But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says put a 100 bill in each person's hand and then show them the program and say, "Now isn't that a nice program? Do you want it? Give me the hundred dollars." and she says see what the poll says then and how many people hang on with a hundred dollars instead of the program.

Carson: in other words it was rather hidden and someone doesn't know exactly where it's going to come...

Reagan: They all start... all the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch you later. And... and they they multiply all of those things that you would...<BR />
<BR />
the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, that's responsible for the budget, putting up putting the budget
together, cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal
government. But all of them can pass regulations and those regulations have the force of law. And the difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until proven guilty, when you break a regulation the fellow that charges you with a breaking the regulation, you're guilty.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: If you want to take him to court and prove you're innocent that's up to you. And all of these are things that that... um yes we can trim the budget. there's enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world.

Carson: You, uh now you took... ''(Applause)'' They took a poll of the American people the past week and I think 78 percent, or something around 75 percent were opposed to more military aid to Vietnam and Cambodia and southeast Asia in general and yet the administration uh was trying to tell the American people that a couple hundred million or 222 million dollars would make some kind of difference or that the government might make it. And, uh, how do you feel you think that that is a lost cause in a way? I think people can see humanitarian, you know, for children hospitals, et cetera, and medical supplies, and food but it seems that the public has just almost had it up with military involvement where we feel we are not directly threatened.

Reagan: Well, we we are, uh, fed up. We're war-weary after a long and badly fought war. On the other hand, and this is one where I'll probably lose a lot of people because it isn't popular or political to say this today. When we withdrew our troops we made a ceasefire, a peace agreement and it was based on, uh, supporting the non-communist forces in Indochina on a basis of one-for-one replacement, every bullet they expended, a bullet to replace it, if the communists violated the ceasefire. The Communists have violated the ceasefire 72 thousand times, since it was instituted and we brought our men home and I think for the United States to break its word, we're in that agreement we pledge, something and the Congress is now saying that the United States reserves the right to just break its word and not... What other allies ever going to trust us and I, um, there's no question that backed by Red China and the Soviet Union the Communist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia are on their way to take those over. They do, of course, Laos just automatically falls
then they're on the edge of Indonesia, 140 million people which comes within miles, at its nearest point, of the
Philippines. The Domino Theory is...

Carson: Is it still a viable theory?

Reagan: Yes it is and I... I could see the United States one day being very very lonely. Now it's a very funny thing that the same forces that want to cut our defense spending are the same ones that want to increase all these social services and this social tinkering and experimenting that hasn't worked and every time it doesn't work they just impose a more expensive program on top of it. I think the American people, if they really look at all the facts, uh, yes we want fiscal responsibility but I think we also want a country that is strong enough at all times that we can say to any adventurous guys over there on the other side of the water you better look twice brother before you start getting rough
that we can take care of ourselves. ''(Applause)''

Carson: As you said... you even before you made the statement that would probably get mixed with your, uh, uh, reaction.

Reagan: I can understand that. People aren't, and it's hard to understand how maybe your interest is involved
10 000 miles away, but Russia seems concerned that their interests extend all the way to Cuba and to South America to Chile and to other countries of that kind and they're the ones that have said they're going to impose their way of life and the rest of the world. We haven't said we want to do it to the rest of the world our way.

Carson: Let me ask you one more question before you go. Let us assume that there's a third party, that neither party seems to go...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: Uh you like this approach already, huh? Uh and they're thrown into disarray as they say and a third party is formed. You think that'll ever happen in this country? That a third party will be a major type of uh alternate to what we have well?

Reagan: I'd still prefer to see a revitalization of the two major parties we have because the two-party system has served us very well. Third parties have a notorious way of not being successful. Now the Republican party, some people say, well that was a third party 100 years ago when it started. It actually wasn't, it was a second party. The Whig party had shrunk and shrunk and then the remainder of the Whig party said the two other groups that had formed parties, 'Hey want to get together with us?' They changed their name and called themselves the other party and so it was in effect the Whigs just disappeared. It was a new second party.

Uh, maybe this is time... maybe it's time for, uh, realignment between people who might be finding themselves in the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting... I was a Democrat most of my life, I became a Republican only not too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of telling some of those people that are saying the Republican party ought to broaden its base the other day that, uh, when I switched parties I didn't do it because the two parties were alike, I did it because they were different. And I think that the two parties ought to stand up as to what they represent... what they stand for.

A third party I they have a way of electing the wrong people they because they simply divide themselves from the other forces that feel the same way and then the other fellow sneaks in and then I'd... it, it could happen that the that neither party would would represent what the people want and finally the people would take some action do something about it but I'd, I'd rather devote our effort to seeing if we can't find out what the present two parties stand for and which one we want.

Carson: But you don't see yourself, or do you see yourself as maybe as a part of that actively, active politically again. I certainly don't give up do I?

Reagan: Uh, yeah, you... you... you sure... sure don't. I wish I could think of a good get-off line.

Carson: I have [[wikipedia:Lawrence_Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]]'s old questions you know for that.

Reagan: Nancy, Nancy you know said to say hello tonight she thought it was great that we're both in town at the same time.

Carson: You too? I get that. Thanks for being with us tonight, really.

Reagan: It's a pleasure to see you again.
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= Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson =

On December 24, 2024, Elon Musk [[xpost:1871520121212346496|posted on X]] (formerly Twitter) a short video of Ronald Reagan talking to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, adding only "Very Wise Words." The 7:43 clip went viral.<BR/>
(The portions of the full video that are included in the clip will be emphasized in the transcript below.)

This clip was a portion of a 20+ minute [[yt:xrNKguJLUYE|Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]. Reagan had just recently ended his terms as governor of California and would have just started recording his [[Reagan_Radio_Commentaries|short-form radio show]], as well as writing a syndicated newspaper column.

There seems to be some confusion in the Youtube video as to when this occurred. The video from the Reagan Foundation claims it was January 3, 1975, but sources such as [[wikipedia:List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson_episodes_(1975)#March|Wikipedia]], [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983692/?ref_=ttep_ep IMDB] and the videos available from the [https://www.youtube.com/@johnnycarson Johnny Carson Youtube channel], indicate the video is from March 13, 1975. This fits the early discussion, in which Reagan jokes about having been "unemployed" for a couple months.

== Transcript ==

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Carson: My first guest tonight is, uh, rather a phenomenon on a political scene as a citizen politician. Making his first try for public office, he was elected California's 33rd governor in 1966 by a majority of something around over a million votes. And he held that office, as you know, for eight years. And he used to joke that in his earlier profession he used to ride off in a sunset with the words "The End" on his back. But there are those who would say that Ronald Reagan... that 1975 may only be the beginning. Would you all complete the former governor of California, Ronald Reagan.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />
<BR />
Nice to see you.

Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment.

Carson: That's right, uh, how does it feel to be, uh, well you're not really unemployed now because I know you're doing a syndicated column and, um, for many who's been around 120 papers I think, and the radio show and on the lecture tour but how does it feel to be, I don't want to use the word, temporarily out of politics or not but we'll get into that later, uh, how's it feel to be away from Sacramento?

Reagan: Well it's doing what I'm doing I wanted to for a long time, it's very exciting and um there's mixed emotions when you step down there's always things that you had left undone that you'd like to have done but then uh all of a sudden the curtain's pulled and that chapter's over and uh...

Carson: Somebody else takes over. Did you have any major disappointments? What would you like to have done, your biggest disappointment, maybe your biggest highlight in office as you look back on it.

Reagan: Well, uh, I'll start with the biggest highlight. The first of all... was proving that some things I'd long believed as a citizen would work. That you could introduce common sense in government and after the first traumatic shock you kind of made some of it work. We, um, we came into quite a... a mess and at the end of eight years... You know government, in the United States, federal, state and local, has been growing for 20 years, in size, about two and a half times as fast as the increase in population... except for the last eight years in California.<BR />
We turned over a government that was the same size as the one we inherited eight years ago. There'd been no growth and in some departments this meant an increase of as much as 66 percent in the workload. But, um, part of that was the welfare reforms.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: Welfare was increasing here in California 40,000 cases a month and we left with about 400,000 fewer
people on welfare than there were four years ago. This saved the taxpayers about a billion dollars but what was equally important we were spread so thin we couldn't do what we should have done for, uh, the really needy, the really deserving and we were able to increase their grants by way of those reforms 43 percent.<BR />
Now you asked for what was the greatest disappointment the people handed it to us when, I think they were deceived, but when they voted down the tax limitation plan. I still say that the answer to our problems in this country even at the National level is to have a law that says there is a percentage limit of the people's earnings that government cannot go beyond without the consent of the people.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />

Carson: You're talking about... You're talking about the gross income of the country and how much they can appropriate for us...

Reagan: That's right.

Carson: ... for federal projects.

<SPAN STYLE="background-color: lightblue;">Reagan: See... when, um, when you and I were boys back in the Midwest...

Carson: Right....

Reagan: Governments, federal state and local were only taking about 15 cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're
taking almost half of every dollar earned in the United States and most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in the so-called business taxes, you know, the politician that stands up and yells, "Oh let's save the little man, let's tax business" and everybody yells "hurray". They haven't figured out that every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production and the customer winds up paying it when he buys the product. It's a hidden sales tax. There's 116 of them in a... the suit of clothes that each one of us is wearing.

Carson: Uh-huh. So a lot of economists have suggested, and I don't know they'll ever come to be in this country, that they're... if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations and maybe tax loopholes and even on the rich certain loopholes and and made a percentage income and made a flat fee without all of the deductions that the government might raise as much money as they do now.

Reagan: Oh sure and really the loopholes, this has been overdone by the politicians too. The bulk of the money that is taken by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people didn't have them they couldn't pay their income tax; interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their... on their car, their property taxes on their home, if they have one and so forth. These are, in politicians eyes, loopholes. But we ought to have tax reform and we ought to start by making it so simple that you don't have to hire a lawyer to find out how much you owe every year.

Carson: That's for sure... it used to be, uh... it used to be a little simplified but not anymore.

Reagan: We... Johnny, we live in the only country in a world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income.

Carson: [Laughs] You might be right.<BR /></SPAN>
Why do you think people are so they seem to be so disheartened now?<BR />
I know... Let's not get into the Watergate thing but that certainly had something to do with the, uh, the antipathy, I think, of a lot of people toward government, now we we see these revelations, of whether their revelations, or at least accusations that possibly the C.I.A. has been involved in some operations that they shouldn't have been involved in, certainly domestically, and people regularly get turned off. How do you... How do you turn people around and say "All right now, we're not going to do this anymore," and every day you see more of these things and I think people withdraw further and further and that's too bad.

Reagan: I know and I think part of it is because we're being bludgeoned every day... it's news... bad things are news we just every day we pick up and they read and record another tenth of a percent unemployment and so forth.<BR />
We keep hearing the the bad things... we hear the accusations and we're kind of used to accepting the accusation as proof of guilt. Now I'm [[wikipedia:United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States|on the C.I.A. Commission]], so I'm rather limited... I cannot talk at this stage...

Carson: True.

Reagan: But I think one of the sad things is that the American people cannot know instead, frankly, we have to have a counter intelligence organization for our own safety. If the American people knew the extent to which were being spied on by the Russians, they'd throw détente out the window and Brezhnev and a few fellows with it.

Carson: Well, obviously, I agree that... that has to go on internationally to protect your national security but when they start looking at, you know, their own their own congressmen and own private citizens who's only a threat to national security seem to be to voice some difference of opinions that's going a little over the line isn't it.

Reagan: No because... well again as I say we...

Carson: Oh that's right you can't...

Reagan: We can't... we can't give any progress report for you...

Carson: You want to speak into the ashtray here and tell me privately.

Reagan: All I'd say to the people is wait until the report comes in and I think when a report comes in, uh um, maybe they might be greatly reassured.

Carson: I didn't mean to put you behind the eight ball there I realize of course you're on that commission and you couldn't expand on that. Let's take a brief break and we'll come right back and get on another subject

''(Commercial Break, 7:27)''

Carson: We're talking with, uh, former governor Reagan and uh during the break we were discussing what I mentioned, uh, that I thought most people uh were not apathetic I think they're confused, basically, because you hear intelligent people from both political parties or in the middle, conservatives and liberals, and they all seem to have different answers as to what is going wrong in the country. Some people say well let's let the government spend billions of dollars and then other people say no no more federal spending, uh, let's give the tax rebates, and the other intelligent people say no tax rebates we've got to do this and do that so everybody is confused how do you see the thing what how are we going to get out of this?

Reagan: Well, Johnny I think that one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer and government's the problem. ''(Applause)'' You... A moment ago you asked you know about people and feeling not only confused but low and and down in America.<BR />
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around... you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on Earth. And we've asked so much of government and we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves and if government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks we'd never miss them.<BR />
Now the... if the people...

Carson: Anybody you had in mind, particularly?

Reagan: No, I said this while I was in government.

Carson: Okay.

Reagan: Our biggest problem is that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal state and local, the permanent employees and they've come to the place that they actually determine policy in this country more than does the Congress of the United States. There are 14 and a half million public employees in the United States, that's quite a voting bloc, and the bureaus and agencies not in Washington...<BR />
I heard you talking earlier about some of the research programs. Well there was a senator the other day, and he took up some pages of the Congressional Record. He was doing the same thing you were, listing all these crazy research programs and how much they were costing and wound up his speech by introducing his own. He wants a study in a research of transcendental meditation.<BR />
So you know there's a state senator in Michigan, and he just found out the other day, they got a $93,000 study on whether chitlins are bad for you, and and he said that as a fourth generation chitlin eater he figured that he could tell you how for 93 cents you can find out the answer to that.

Carson: No we laugh at those things but they do happen, I guess.

Reagan: Oh, listen there, you had... you had some beauties, and there's some others. What would you say if I told you about one, a study, in which... this was called the um, the [[75-01-A4|Demography of Happiness]]. And in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people; they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less; and they found out that well people are happier than sick people.

Carson: That's good. Glad to know that.

Reagan: $249,000 to find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy than old, poor, and sick.

''(Laughter and Applause)''

Carson: So, when you say now that it's the government may be the problem, so... so what do people do?<BR />
They have to look to somebody and you say if they look for themselves that's uh... It may be good advice, but how
about somebody who's on a, you know a social security pension or a pension they're trying to live on a $150 per month you know, they have to look to somebody, I guess...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: They're saying "Hey we can't make it, we can't afford to go to a doctor."

Reagan: Well 62% of the people can't stay home in an election and cure things as we did in the last election.

Carson: I just read this week... on... I heard this week on the radio they dropped 300,000 voters from the Los Angeles roll because they didn't take the time to go to the polls in the last election. Three hundred thousand people!

Reagan: The lowest percentage in history only 38 percent of the people voted in the national election and this means that people aren't paying any attention to what, well, here a poll was taken recently that found out that only 46 percent of the people in the poll could name their United States Congressman. But what was worse 86 percent of those who could name him, couldn't tell you a single thing that he represented or stood for.

Carson: They just knew that he represented the state...

Reagan: He was a congressman but what's he doing while he's up there and the same is true at the at the local levels of government and... and all the rest. But uh...

Carson: So you're saying people really have to take an active interest and you have to have, uh, citizen action groups locally and uh...

Reagan: And let them know ''[crosstalk]''<BR />
Now the special interest groups aren't as everyone thought big powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade government to do things as a matter of fact I don't know anyone with less influence today in government
than business they're just a convenient whipping boy. but it's the groups that have got a particular axe to grind
you can't have a power plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.<BR />
<BR />
Now I think I'm an environmentalist and I do not agree with those people way over the edge who paved the whole country over in the name of progress, but also I don't like those on the other extreme that won't let you build a house unless it looks like a bird's nest someplace in the middle we got to allow... people are ecology too.<BR />

Carson: Right...

Reagan: Well this kind of group and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to to clear up the air. We're the only country in the world that set out to do it that way. The automobile industry, over and over again, told government if they give them more time, the answer lay in making the motor more efficient and making it burn the fuel better and... when they were given the limited time there was only one thing they could turn to... that was the add-ons that you had to go.

Carson: And, uh, the verdict is really kind of still out on on those whether they're going to add more sulfuric acid to the to the air or not.

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: What do you think is going to happen... Now you've been asked this question... I'm sure you knew that I
was... would might possibly bring it up tonight, uh, there's an election coming up you're, uh, you're out of politics now but you're speaking, and as I say, you're going around the country. Do you envision a possibility say in '76 if the
convention say was deadlocked. I'm giving you all the theories and so forth and the conservatives took over possibly and
got control of the, us, of the electoral process and they couldn't quite make a decision and they came to you and said "Governor Reagan uh we can't decide between Mr., uh, Ford and Mr. Rockefeller, we're divided um would you like to uh would you like to go to the White House."

Reagan: Uh, you remember that answer I gave you about the C.I.A.?

Carson: Yeah. ''(Laughter)'' Come on, I know... I'm not gonna buy them. Now I can understand the C.I.A. now but uh... I thought that was delicately phrased.

Reagan: Yes. Verbose but delicate.

Carson: Yeah, verbose but delicate.

Reagan: That one I, um, no I think it's an unanswerable question. I don't think anyone in view of the things that are going on the last few years knows what's going to happen in the in the next two years, down the road. I think that everyone should hope and pray that people are there will do the job so well there won't be any question about it because if they do then everything's all right with the rest of us, uh,

Carson: Do you think they're doing their job well?

Reagan: Well I agree with some things and disagree with others. When they... when they give me a... when they give me a choice between a 53 billion dollar deficit in the budget and an 80 billion dollar deficit, when budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's any room to be on either side of that argument. I think the answer to
curing inflation is a balanced budget.

Carson: Now how do you do that? I mean how do you balance the budget?

Reagan: Well balancing the budget is like protecting...

Carson: You don't spend more than you take in.

Reagan: Right. It's like protecting your virtue. You have to learn to say no.

''(Applause)''

Carson: There's got to be another way. ''(Laughter)'' What's the second option?

Reagan: Well, no, there's some ways that this could be brought about first of all that limitation. Here's another one.
Why shouldn't we have in addition to a simplified income tax why shouldn't we also have a law that says that anytime a legislator a congressman introduces a spending program he has to introduce with it a tax program to pay for it then let the people find out.

There was a woman that from a financial firm that was back at the president's Economic Council and her words weren't quoted... Everybody else's words got in the paper, all the [[wikipedia:Walter_Heller|Hellers]] and the [[wikipedia:John_Kenneth_Galbraith|Galbraiths]] and all the so-called economists. And I had... I have a degree in economics so I can say this, I think an economist is someone who has a [[75-10-A2|Phi Beta Kappa key on one end of his watch chain and no watch on the other]].<BR />
<BR />
Uh, this woman said that you go to the polls and you ask the people do they want some social service... some program that government can give and the people in the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good, yeah.

Reagan: But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says put a 100 bill in each person's hand and then show them the program and say, "Now isn't that a nice program? Do you want it? Give me the hundred dollars." and she says see what the poll says then and how many people hang on with a hundred dollars instead of the program.

Carson: in other words it was rather hidden and someone doesn't know exactly where it's going to come...

Reagan: They all start... all the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch you later. And... and they they multiply all of those things that you would...<BR />
<BR />
the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, that's responsible for the budget, putting up putting the budget
together, cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal
government. But all of them can pass regulations and those regulations have the force of law. And the difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until proven guilty, when you break a regulation the fellow that charges you with a breaking the regulation, you're guilty.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: If you want to take him to court and prove you're innocent that's up to you. And all of these are things that that... um yes we can trim the budget. there's enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world.

Carson: You, uh now you took... ''(Applause)'' They took a poll of the American people the past week and I think 78 percent, or something around 75 percent were opposed to more military aid to Vietnam and Cambodia and southeast Asia in general and yet the administration uh was trying to tell the American people that a couple hundred million or 222 million dollars would make some kind of difference or that the government might make it. And, uh, how do you feel you think that that is a lost cause in a way? I think people can see humanitarian, you know, for children hospitals, et cetera, and medical supplies, and food but it seems that the public has just almost had it up with military involvement where we feel we are not directly threatened.

Reagan: Well, we we are, uh, fed up. We're war-weary after a long and badly fought war. On the other hand, and this is one where I'll probably lose a lot of people because it isn't popular or political to say this today. When we withdrew our troops we made a ceasefire, a peace agreement and it was based on, uh, supporting the non-communist forces in Indochina on a basis of one-for-one replacement, every bullet they expended, a bullet to replace it, if the communists violated the ceasefire. The Communists have violated the ceasefire 72 thousand times, since it was instituted and we brought our men home and I think for the United States to break its word, we're in that agreement we pledge, something and the Congress is now saying that the United States reserves the right to just break its word and not... What other allies ever going to trust us and I, um, there's no question that backed by Red China and the Soviet Union the Communist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia are on their way to take those over. They do, of course, Laos just automatically falls
then they're on the edge of Indonesia, 140 million people which comes within miles, at its nearest point, of the
Philippines. The Domino Theory is...

Carson: Is it still a viable theory?

Reagan: Yes it is and I... I could see the United States one day being very very lonely. Now it's a very funny thing that the same forces that want to cut our defense spending are the same ones that want to increase all these social services and this social tinkering and experimenting that hasn't worked and every time it doesn't work they just impose a more expensive program on top of it. I think the American people, if they really look at all the facts, uh, yes we want fiscal responsibility but I think we also want a country that is strong enough at all times that we can say to any adventurous guys over there on the other side of the water you better look twice brother before you start getting rough
that we can take care of ourselves. ''(Applause)''

Carson: As you said... you even before you made the statement that would probably get mixed with your, uh, uh, reaction.

Reagan: I can understand that. People aren't, and it's hard to understand how maybe your interest is involved
10 000 miles away, but Russia seems concerned that their interests extend all the way to Cuba and to South America to Chile and to other countries of that kind and they're the ones that have said they're going to impose their way of life and the rest of the world. We haven't said we want to do it to the rest of the world our way.

Carson: Let me ask you one more question before you go. Let us assume that there's a third party, that neither party seems to go...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: Uh you like this approach already, huh? Uh and they're thrown into disarray as they say and a third party is formed. You think that'll ever happen in this country? That a third party will be a major type of uh alternate to what we have well?

Reagan: I'd still prefer to see a revitalization of the two major parties we have because the two-party system has served us very well. Third parties have a notorious way of not being successful. Now the Republican party, some people say, well that was a third party 100 years ago when it started. It actually wasn't, it was a second party. The Whig party had shrunk and shrunk and then the remainder of the Whig party said the two other groups that had formed parties, 'Hey want to get together with us?' They changed their name and called themselves the other party and so it was in effect the Whigs just disappeared. It was a new second party.

Uh, maybe this is time... maybe it's time for, uh, realignment between people who might be finding themselves in the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting... I was a Democrat most of my life, I became a Republican only not too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of telling some of those people that are saying the Republican party ought to broaden its base the other day that, uh, when I switched parties I didn't do it because the two parties were alike, I did it because they were different. And I think that the two parties ought to stand up as to what they represent... what they stand for.

A third party I they have a way of electing the wrong people they because they simply divide themselves from the other forces that feel the same way and then the other fellow sneaks in and then I'd... it, it could happen that the that neither party would would represent what the people want and finally the people would take some action do something about it but I'd, I'd rather devote our effort to seeing if we can't find out what the present two parties stand for and which one we want.

Carson: But you don't see yourself, or do you see yourself as maybe as a part of that actively, active politically again. I certainly don't give up do I?

Reagan: Uh, yeah, you... you... you sure... sure don't. I wish I could think of a good get-off line.

Carson: I have [[wikipedia:Lawrence_Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]]'s old questions you know for that.

Reagan: Nancy, Nancy you know said to say hello tonight she thought it was great that we're both in town at the same time.

Carson: You too? I get that. Thanks for being with us tonight, really.

Reagan: It's a pleasure to see you again.
</DIV>

Reagan Radio Commentaries

2026-03-31T13:47:07Z

Reagan admin:

- [[Main Page]]
[[category:ReaganRadio]]
[[File:Reagan Radio Press Photo.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Ronald Reagan starts recording, January 9, 1975]]
After leaving the governorship of California, Ronald Reagan had a number of options available to him. One of these was the opportunity to have a radio show. He would take the show and run with it for nearly five years, taking a 9-month break during 1976 while he ran for president as a primary challenge to Gerald Ford. After failing to gain the nomination, he returned to the radio show. In all, he would give over 1000 radio broadcasts, roughly 60% written by him.

Early on in their broadcast history, they were called "Viewpoint with Ronald Reagan" but later called the "Reagan Radio Commentary".

This Wiki is an attempt to create an archive of these broadcasts. It contains broadcast information, summaries, and links to audio, if available.

With this new incarnation of the Wiki, I have decided to '''integrate broadcast transcripts'''. These transcripts are being generated by speech-to-text systems, then reviewed for accuracy. If possible, they are cross-checked against those transcripts printed in the three [[Radio_Commentary_Books|books]] that are available. For broadcasts not included in one of the printed books, punctuation and paragraph structure may not be accurate. While pages for all broadcasts have been created, not all will contain transcripts. If a transcript appeared only in a book, it may or may not end up here eventually, but I may be able to include relevant research links.

Update: See new page below with resources directly from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

New Acquisition: I found 2 records of "Viewpoint with Ronald Reagan" on eBay and purchased them. Their contents is unknown at the moment because I do not have a functioning record player. They are for sets 75-08 and 75-16, both of which were previous purchased as MP3s, as mentioned below.

Reagan's hand-written notes and records of the commentaries can be found at the Stanford's [http://www.hoover.org Hoover Institution]. Your humble administrator has begun slowly purchasing MP3s of the recordings available from the Hoover Institute to continue his research. However, Hoover Institute has a cap on how much of the collection may be purchased. I was told via email it is 10%, but they allowed my last order to go through and I ended up with about 22%. Including the other episodes available, I have about 30% of the collection. Once all scripts (from books and Reagan Library) have been added, this Wiki will contain just over 75% of the complete radio show.

On February 23, 2020, author Paul Batura wrote an article for Foxnews.com entitled [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/paul-batura-ronald-reagan-warned-us-about-bernie-sanders-over-40-years-ago Ronald Reagan warned us about Bernie Sanders – over 40 years ago] in which he referenced several Radio Commentaries, specifically [[yt:Ll2mbslJPbY|''Socialism'']] ([[76-06-B6]] and repeated [[77-23-A3]]), ''Freedom'' ([[77-22-B6]]), ''Junk Food'' ([[76-08-B5]]).
[[xpost:1231606001461334017|I reached out on Twitter to thank him]].

<TABLE WIDTH="100%">
<TR VALIGN="TOP"><TD WIDTH="50%">
== Reagan Broadcast Years ==

[[Radio1975|1975]]&emsp;[[Radio1976|1976]]&emsp;[[Radio1977|1977]]&emsp;[[Radio1978|1978]]&emsp;[[Radio1979|1979]]

== Other Resources ==
[[Radio Commentary Books|Books about or containing Broadcasts]]

<FONT COLOR="RED">NEW PAGE</FONT> [[Reagan Library (National Archives) Resources|Reagan Library Resources]]

[[Promos|Some collections include Reagan-read Promotional Cuts]]

[[yt:9SVpKzET0Ek|Dean's Place, September 1975]]<BR>
Mr. and Mrs. Reagan appear and Reagan talks about having a new radio show. Appearance begins at 15:51.
</TD><TD>
<u>Broadcasts: By The Numbers</u>
* 1058 total broadcasts
** 215 in 1975
** 102 in 1976
** 177 in 1977
** 256 in 1978
** 218 in 1979
* 1027 given by Reagan
* 673 known to be written by Reagan
* 337 transcripts available in [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|Reagan's Path to Victory]]
* 237 transcripts available in [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|Reagan in His Own Hand]]
* 34 transcripts available in [[Radio_Commentary_Books##Reagan:_Stories_in_his_Own_Hand|Stories in His Own Hand]] (5 unique)
* 88 broadcasts available on [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_his_Own_Voice|Reagan in His Own Voice]] audio book
* 21 broadcasts available on [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|Reagan's Path to Victory]] audio CD
* 10 broadcasts available on the [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Ronald_Reagan_On_the_Air|1978 "Ronald Reagan On the Air"]] LP record set
* 17 known repeated broadcasts (15 in [[Radio1977#77-23|77-23]])
* 14 written and recorded by guests
** Pat Buchanan
** Maureen Reagan (daughter)
** William F. Buckley
** Julie Eisenhower-Nixon
** Nancy Reagan
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

Reagan Radio Commentaries

2026-03-30T19:45:51Z

Reagan admin:

- [[Main Page]]
[[category:ReaganRadio]]
[[File:Reagan Radio Press Photo.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Ronald Reagan starts recording, January 9, 1975]]
After leaving the governorship of California, Ronald Reagan had a number of options available to him. One of these was the opportunity to have a radio show. He would take the show and run with it for nearly five years, taking a 9-month break during 1976 while he ran for president as a primary challenge to Gerald Ford. After failing to gain the nomination, he returned to the radio show. In all, he would give over 1000 radio broadcasts, roughly 60% written by him.

Early on in their broadcast history, they were called "Viewpoint with Ronald Reagan" but later called the "Reagan Radio Commentary".

This Wiki is an attempt to create an archive of these broadcasts. It contains broadcast information, summaries, and links to audio, if available.

With this new incarnation of the Wiki, I have decided to '''integrate broadcast transcripts'''. These transcripts are being generated by speech-to-text systems, then reviewed for accuracy. If possible, they are cross-checked against those transcripts printed in the three [[Radio_Commentary_Books|books]] that are available. For broadcasts not included in one of the printed books, punctuation and paragraph structure may not be accurate. While pages for all broadcasts have been created, not all will contain transcripts. If a transcript appeared only in a book, it may or may not end up here eventually, but I may be able to include relevant research links.

Update: See new page below with resources directly from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

New Acquisition: I found 2 records of "Viewpoint with Ronald Reagan" on eBay and purchased them. Their contents is unknown at the moment because I do not have a functioning record player. They appear to both be from 1975, so they most likely do not have any new material on them.

Reagan's hand-written notes and records of the commentaries can be found at the Stanford's [http://www.hoover.org Hoover Institution]. Your humble administrator has begun slowly purchasing MP3s of the recordings available from the Hoover Institute to continue his research. However, Hoover Institute has a cap on how much of the collection may be purchased. I was told via email it is 10%, but they allowed my last order to go through and I ended up with about 22%. Including the other episodes available, I have about 30% of the collection. Once all scripts (from books and Reagan Library) have been added, this Wiki will contain just over 75% of the complete radio show.

On February 23, 2020, author Paul Batura wrote an article for Foxnews.com entitled [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/paul-batura-ronald-reagan-warned-us-about-bernie-sanders-over-40-years-ago Ronald Reagan warned us about Bernie Sanders – over 40 years ago] in which he referenced several Radio Commentaries, specifically [[yt:Ll2mbslJPbY|''Socialism'']] ([[76-06-B6]] and repeated [[77-23-A3]]), ''Freedom'' ([[77-22-B6]]), ''Junk Food'' ([[76-08-B5]]).
[[xpost:1231606001461334017|I reached out on Twitter to thank him]].

<TABLE WIDTH="100%">
<TR VALIGN="TOP"><TD WIDTH="50%">
== Reagan Broadcast Years ==

[[Radio1975|1975]]&emsp;[[Radio1976|1976]]&emsp;[[Radio1977|1977]]&emsp;[[Radio1978|1978]]&emsp;[[Radio1979|1979]]

== Other Resources ==
[[Radio Commentary Books|Books about or containing Broadcasts]]

<FONT COLOR="RED">NEW PAGE</FONT> [[Reagan Library (National Archives) Resources|Reagan Library Resources]]

[[Promos|Some collections include Reagan-read Promotional Cuts]]

[[yt:9SVpKzET0Ek|Dean's Place, September 1975]]<BR>
Mr. and Mrs. Reagan appear and Reagan talks about having a new radio show. Appearance begins at 15:51.
</TD><TD>
<u>Broadcasts: By The Numbers</u>
* 1058 total broadcasts
** 215 in 1975
** 102 in 1976
** 177 in 1977
** 256 in 1978
** 218 in 1979
* 1027 given by Reagan
* 673 known to be written by Reagan
* 337 transcripts available in [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|Reagan's Path to Victory]]
* 237 transcripts available in [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|Reagan in His Own Hand]]
* 34 transcripts available in [[Radio_Commentary_Books##Reagan:_Stories_in_his_Own_Hand|Stories in His Own Hand]] (5 unique)
* 88 broadcasts available on [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_his_Own_Voice|Reagan in His Own Voice]] audio book
* 21 broadcasts available on [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|Reagan's Path to Victory]] audio CD
* 10 broadcasts available on the [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Ronald_Reagan_On_the_Air|1978 "Ronald Reagan On the Air"]] LP record set
* 17 known repeated broadcasts (15 in [[Radio1977#77-23|77-23]])
* 14 written and recorded by guests
** Pat Buchanan
** Maureen Reagan (daughter)
** William F. Buckley
** Julie Eisenhower-Nixon
** Nancy Reagan
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

Carson1975

2026-03-30T19:08:53Z

Reagan admin:

= Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson =

On December 24, 2024, Elon Musk [[xpost:1871520121212346496|posted on X]] (formerly Twitter) a short video of Ronald Reagan talking to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, adding only "Very Wise Words." The 7:43 clip went viral.<BR/>
(The portions of the full video that are included in the clip will be emphasized in the transcript below.)

This clip was a portion of a 20+ minute [[yt:xrNKguJLUYE|Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]. Reagan had just recently ended his terms as governor of California and would have just started recording his [[Reagan_Radio_Commentaries|short-form radio show]], as well as writing a syndicated newspaper column.

There seems to be some confusion in the Youtube video as to when this occurred. The video from the Reagan Foundation claims it was January 3, 1975, but sources such as [[wikipedia:List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson_episodes_(1975)#March|Wikipedia]], [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983692/?ref_=ttep_ep IMDB] and the videos available from the [https://www.youtube.com/@johnnycarson Johnny Carson Youtube channel], indicate the video is from March 13, 1975. This fits the early discussion, in which Reagan jokes about having been "unemployed" for a couple months.

== Transcript ==

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Carson: My first guest tonight is, uh, rather a phenomenon on a political scene as a citizen politician. Making his first try for public office, he was elected California's 33rd governor in 1966 by a majority of something around over a million votes. And he held that office, as you know, for eight years. And he used to joke that in his earlier profession he used to ride off in a sunset with the words "The End" on his back. But there are those who would say that Ronald Reagan... that 1975 may only be the beginning. Would you all complete the former governor of California, Ronald Reagan.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />
<BR />
Nice to see you.

Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment.

Carson: That's right, uh, how does it feel to be, uh, well you're not really unemployed now because I know you're doing a syndicated column and, um, for many who's been around 120 papers I think, and the radio show and on the lecture tour but how does it feel to be, I don't want to use the word, temporarily out of politics or not but we'll get into that later, uh, how's it feel to be away from Sacramento?

Reagan: Well it's doing what I'm doing I wanted to for a long time, it's very exciting and um there's mixed emotions when you step down there's always things that you had left undone that you'd like to have done but then uh all of a sudden the curtain's pulled and that chapter's over and uh...

Carson: Somebody else takes over. Did you have any major disappointments? What would you like to have done, your biggest disappointment, maybe your biggest highlight in office as you look back on it.

Reagan: Well, uh, I'll start with the biggest highlight. The first of all... was proving that some things I'd long believed as a citizen would work. That you could introduce common sense in government and after the first traumatic shock you kind of made some of it work. We, um, we came into quite a... a mess and at the end of eight years... You know government, in the United States, federal, state and local, has been growing for 20 years, in size, about two and a half times as fast as the increase in population... except for the last eight years in California.<BR />
We turned over a government that was the same size as the one we inherited eight years ago. There'd been no growth and in some departments this meant an increase of as much as 66 percent in the workload. But, um, part of that was the welfare reforms.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: Welfare was increasing here in California 40,000 cases a month and we left with about 400,000 fewer
people on welfare than there were four years ago. This saved the taxpayers about a billion dollars but what was equally important we were spread so thin we couldn't do what we should have done for, uh, the really needy, the really deserving and we were able to increase their grants by way of those reforms 43 percent.<BR />
Now you asked for what was the greatest disappointment the people handed it to us when, I think they were deceived, but when they voted down the tax limitation plan. I still say that the answer to our problems in this country even at the National level is to have a law that says there is a percentage limit of the people's earnings that government cannot go beyond without the consent of the people.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />

Carson: You're talking about... You're talking about the gross income of the country and how much they can appropriate for us...

Reagan: That's right.

Carson: ... for federal projects.

Reagan: See... when, um, when you and I were boys back in the Midwest...

Carson: Right....

Reagan: Governments, federal state and local were only taking about 15 cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're
taking almost half of every dollar earned in the United States and most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in the so-called business taxes, you know, the politician that stands up and yells, "Oh let's save the little man, let's tax business" and everybody yells "hurray". They haven't figured out that every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production and the customer winds up paying it when he buys the product. It's a hidden sales tax. There's 116 of them in a... the suit of clothes that each one of us is wearing.

Carson: Uh-huh. So a lot of economists have suggested, and I don't know they'll ever come to be in this country, that they're if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations and maybe tax loopholes and even on the rich certain loopholes and and made a percentage income and made a flat fee without all of the deductions that the government might raise as much money as they do now.

Reagan: Oh sure and really the loopholes, this has been overdone by the politicians too. The bulk of the money that is taken by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people didn't have them they couldn't pay their income tax; interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their... on their car, their property taxes on their home, if they have one and so forth. These are, in politicians eyes, loopholes. But we ought to have tax reform and we ought to start by making it so simple that you don't have to hire a lawyer to find out how much you owe every year.

Carson: That's for sure it used to be uh it used to be a little simplified but not anymore.

Reagan: We... Johnny, we live in the only country in a world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income.

Carson: [Laughs] You might be right.<BR />
Why do you think people are so they seem to be so disheartened now?<BR />
I know... Let's not get into the Watergate thing but that certainly had something to do with the, uh, the antipathy, I think, of a lot of people toward government, now we we see these revelations, of whether their revelations, or at least accusations that possibly the C.I.A. has been involved in some operations that they shouldn't have been involved in, certainly domestically, and people regularly get turned off. How do you... How do you turn people around and say "All right now, we're not going to do this anymore," and every day you see more of these things and I think people withdraw further and further and that's too bad.

Reagan: I know and I think part of it is because we're being bludgeoned every day... it's news... bad things are news we just every day we pick up and they read and record another tenth of a percent unemployment and so forth.<BR />
We keep hearing the the bad things... we hear the accusations and we're kind of used to accepting the accusation as proof of guilt. Now I'm [[wikipedia:United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States|on the C.I.A. Commission]], so I'm rather limited... I cannot talk at this stage...

Carson: True.

Reagan: But I think one of the sad things is that the American people cannot know instead, frankly, we have to have a counter intelligence organization for our own safety. If the American people knew the extent to which were being spied on by the Russians, they'd throw détente out the window and Brezhnev and a few fellows with it.

Carson: Well, obviously, I agree that... that has to go on internationally to protect your national security but when they start looking at, you know, their own their own congressmen and own private citizens who's only a threat to national security seem to be to voice some difference of opinions that's going a little over the line isn't it.

Reagan: No because... well again as I say we...

Carson: Oh that's right you can't...

Reagan: We can't... we can't give any progress report for you...

Carson: You want to speak into the ashtray here and tell me privately.

Reagan: All I'd say to the people is wait until the report comes in and I think when a report comes in, uh um, maybe they might be greatly reassured.

Carson: I didn't mean to put you behind the eight ball there I realize of course you're on that commission and you couldn't expand on that. Let's take a brief break and we'll come right back and get on another subject

''(Commercial Break, 7:27)''

Carson: We're talking with, uh, former governor Reagan and uh during the break we were discussing what I mentioned, uh, that I thought most people uh were not apathetic I think they're confused, basically, because you hear intelligent people from both political parties or in the middle, conservatives and liberals, and they all seem to have different answers as to what is going wrong in the country. Some people say well let's let the government spend billions of dollars and then other people say no no more federal spending, uh, let's give the tax rebates, and the other intelligent people say no tax rebates we've got to do this and do that so everybody is confused how do you see the thing what how are we going to get out of this?

Reagan: Well, Johnny I think that one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer and government's the problem. ''(Applause)'' You... A moment ago you asked you know about people and feeling not only confused but low and and down in America.<BR />
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around... you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on Earth. And we've asked so much of government and we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves and if government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks we'd never miss them.<BR />
Now the... if the people...

Carson: Anybody you had in mind, particularly?

Reagan: No, I said this while I was in government.

Carson: Okay.

Reagan: Our biggest problem is that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal state and local, the permanent employees and they've come to the place that they actually determine policy in this country more than does the Congress of the United States. There are 14 and a half million public employees in the United States, that's quite a voting bloc, and the bureaus and agencies not in Washington...<BR />
I heard you talking earlier about some of the research programs. Well there was a senator the other day, and he took up some pages of the Congressional Record. He was doing the same thing you were, listing all these crazy research programs and how much they were costing and wound up his speech by introducing his own. He wants a study in a research of transcendental meditation.<BR />
So you know there's a state senator in Michigan, and he just found out the other day, they got a $93,000 study on whether chitlins are bad for you, and and he said that as a fourth generation chitlin eater he figured that he could tell you how for 93 cents you can find out the answer to that.

Carson: No we laugh at those things but they do happen, I guess.

Reagan: Oh, listen there, you had... you had some beauties, and there's some others. What would you say if I told you about one, a study, in which... this was called the um, the [[75-01-A4|Demography of Happiness]]. And in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people; they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less; and they found out that well people are happier than sick people.

Carson: That's good. Glad to know that.

Reagan: $249,000 to find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy than old, poor, and sick.

''(Laughter and Applause)''

Carson: So, when you say now that it's the government may be the problem, so... so what do people do?<BR />
They have to look to somebody and you say if they look for themselves that's uh... It may be good advice, but how
about somebody who's on a, you know a social security pension or a pension they're trying to live on a $150 per month you know, they have to look to somebody, I guess...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: They're saying "Hey we can't make it, we can't afford to go to a doctor."

Reagan: Well 62% of the people can't stay home in an election and cure things as we did in the last election.

Carson: I just read this week... on... I heard this week on the radio they dropped 300,000 voters from the Los Angeles roll because they didn't take the time to go to the polls in the last election. Three hundred thousand people!

Reagan: The lowest percentage in history only 38 percent of the people voted in the national election and this means that people aren't paying any attention to what, well, here a poll was taken recently that found out that only 46 percent of the people in the poll could name their United States Congressman. But what was worse 86 percent of those who could name him, couldn't tell you a single thing that he represented or stood for.

Carson: They just knew that he represented the state...

Reagan: He was a congressman but what's he doing while he's up there and the same is true at the at the local levels of government and... and all the rest. But uh...

Carson: So you're saying people really have to take an active interest and you have to have, uh, citizen action groups locally and uh...

Reagan: And let them know ''[crosstalk]''<BR />
Now the special interest groups aren't as everyone thought big powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade government to do things as a matter of fact I don't know anyone with less influence today in government
than business they're just a convenient whipping boy. but it's the groups that have got a particular axe to grind
you can't have a power plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.<BR />
<BR />
Now I think I'm an environmentalist and I do not agree with those people way over the edge who paved the whole country over in the name of progress, but also I don't like those on the other extreme that won't let you build a house unless it looks like a bird's nest someplace in the middle we got to allow... people are ecology too.<BR />

Carson: Right...

Reagan: Well this kind of group and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to to clear up the air. We're the only country in the world that set out to do it that way. The automobile industry, over and over again, told government if they give them more time, the answer lay in making the motor more efficient and making it burn the fuel better and... when they were given the limited time there was only one thing they could turn to... that was the add-ons that you had to go.

Carson: And, uh, the verdict is really kind of still out on on those whether they're going to add more sulfuric acid to the to the air or not.

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: What do you think is going to happen... Now you've been asked this question... I'm sure you knew that I
was... would might possibly bring it up tonight, uh, there's an election coming up you're, uh, you're out of politics now but you're speaking, and as I say, you're going around the country. Do you envision a possibility say in '76 if the
convention say was deadlocked. I'm giving you all the theories and so forth and the conservatives took over possibly and
got control of the, us, of the electoral process and they couldn't quite make a decision and they came to you and said "Governor Reagan uh we can't decide between Mr., uh, Ford and Mr. Rockefeller, we're divided um would you like to uh would you like to go to the White House."

Reagan: Uh, you remember that answer I gave you about the C.I.A.?

Carson: Yeah. ''(Laughter)'' Come on, I know... I'm not gonna buy them. Now I can understand the C.I.A. now but uh... I thought that was delicately phrased.

Reagan: Yes. Verbose but delicate.

Carson: Yeah, verbose but delicate.

Reagan: That one I, um, no I think it's an unanswerable question. I don't think anyone in view of the things that are going on the last few years knows what's going to happen in the in the next two years, down the road. I think that everyone should hope and pray that people are there will do the job so well there won't be any question about it because if they do then everything's all right with the rest of us, uh,

Carson: Do you think they're doing their job well?

Reagan: Well I agree with some things and disagree with others. When they... when they give me a... when they give me a choice between a 53 billion dollar deficit in the budget and an 80 billion dollar deficit, when budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's any room to be on either side of that argument. I think the answer to
curing inflation is a balanced budget.

Carson: Now how do you do that? I mean how do you balance the budget?

Reagan: Well balancing the budget is like protecting...

Carson: You don't spend more than you take in.

Reagan: Right. It's like protecting your virtue. You have to learn to say no.

''(Applause)''

Carson: There's got to be another way. ''(Laughter)'' What's the second option?

Reagan: Well, no, there's some ways that this could be brought about first of all that limitation. Here's another one.
Why shouldn't we have in addition to a simplified income tax why shouldn't we also have a law that says that anytime a legislator a congressman introduces a spending program he has to introduce with it a tax program to pay for it then let the people find out.

There was a woman that from a financial firm that was back at the president's Economic Council and her words weren't quoted... Everybody else's words got in the paper, all the [[wikipedia:Walter_Heller|Hellers]] and the [[wikipedia:John_Kenneth_Galbraith|Galbraiths]] and all the so-called economists. And I had... I have a degree in economics so I can say this, I think an economist is someone who has a [[75-10-A2|Phi Beta Kappa key on one end of his watch chain and no watch on the other]].<BR />
<BR />
Uh, this woman said that you go to the polls and you ask the people do they want some social service... some program that government can give and the people in the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good, yeah.

Reagan: But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says put a 100 bill in each person's hand and then show them the program and say, "Now isn't that a nice program? Do you want it? Give me the hundred dollars." and she says see what the poll says then and how many people hang on with a hundred dollars instead of the program.

Carson: in other words it was rather hidden and someone doesn't know exactly where it's going to come...

Reagan: They all start... all the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch you later. And... and they they multiply all of those things that you would...<BR />
<BR />
the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, that's responsible for the budget, putting up putting the budget
together, cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal
government. But all of them can pass regulations and those regulations have the force of law. And the difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until proven guilty, when you break a regulation the fellow that charges you with a breaking the regulation, you're guilty.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: If you want to take him to court and prove you're innocent that's up to you. And all of these are things that that... um yes we can trim the budget. there's enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world.

Carson: You, uh now you took... ''(Applause)'' They took a poll of the American people the past week and I think 78 percent, or something around 75 percent were opposed to more military aid to Vietnam and Cambodia and southeast Asia in general and yet the administration uh was trying to tell the American people that a couple hundred million or 222 million dollars would make some kind of difference or that the government might make it. And, uh, how do you feel you think that that is a lost cause in a way? I think people can see humanitarian, you know, for children hospitals, et cetera, and medical supplies, and food but it seems that the public has just almost had it up with military involvement where we feel we are not directly threatened.

Reagan: Well, we we are, uh, fed up. We're war-weary after a long and badly fought war. On the other hand, and this is one where I'll probably lose a lot of people because it isn't popular or political to say this today. When we withdrew our troops we made a ceasefire, a peace agreement and it was based on, uh, supporting the non-communist forces in Indochina on a basis of one-for-one replacement, every bullet they expended, a bullet to replace it, if the communists violated the ceasefire. The Communists have violated the ceasefire 72 thousand times, since it was instituted and we brought our men home and I think for the United States to break its word, we're in that agreement we pledge, something and the Congress is now saying that the United States reserves the right to just break its word and not... What other allies ever going to trust us and I, um, there's no question that backed by Red China and the Soviet Union the Communist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia are on their way to take those over. They do, of course, Laos just automatically falls
then they're on the edge of Indonesia, 140 million people which comes within miles, at its nearest point, of the
Philippines. The Domino Theory is...

Carson: Is it still a viable theory?

Reagan: Yes it is and I... I could see the United States one day being very very lonely. Now it's a very funny thing that the same forces that want to cut our defense spending are the same ones that want to increase all these social services and this social tinkering and experimenting that hasn't worked and every time it doesn't work they just impose a more expensive program on top of it. I think the American people, if they really look at all the facts, uh, yes we want fiscal responsibility but I think we also want a country that is strong enough at all times that we can say to any adventurous guys over there on the other side of the water you better look twice brother before you start getting rough
that we can take care of ourselves. ''(Applause)''

Carson: As you said... you even before you made the statement that would probably get mixed with your, uh, uh, reaction.

Reagan: I can understand that. People aren't, and it's hard to understand how maybe your interest is involved
10 000 miles away, but Russia seems concerned that their interests extend all the way to Cuba and to South America to Chile and to other countries of that kind and they're the ones that have said they're going to impose their way of life and the rest of the world. We haven't said we want to do it to the rest of the world our way.

Carson: Let me ask you one more question before you go. Let us assume that there's a third party, that neither party seems to go...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: Uh you like this approach already, huh? Uh and they're thrown into disarray as they say and a third party is formed. You think that'll ever happen in this country? That a third party will be a major type of uh alternate to what we have well?

Reagan: I'd still prefer to see a revitalization of the two major parties we have because the two-party system has served us very well. Third parties have a notorious way of not being successful. Now the Republican party, some people say, well that was a third party 100 years ago when it started. It actually wasn't, it was a second party. The Whig party had shrunk and shrunk and then the remainder of the Whig party said the two other groups that had formed parties, 'Hey want to get together with us?' They changed their name and called themselves the other party and so it was in effect the Whigs just disappeared. It was a new second party.

Uh, maybe this is time... maybe it's time for, uh, realignment between people who might be finding themselves in the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting... I was a Democrat most of my life, I became a Republican only not too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of telling some of those people that are saying the Republican party ought to broaden its base the other day that, uh, when I switched parties I didn't do it because the two parties were alike, I did it because they were different. And I think that the two parties ought to stand up as to what they represent... what they stand for.

A third party I they have a way of electing the wrong people they because they simply divide themselves from the other forces that feel the same way and then the other fellow sneaks in and then I'd... it, it could happen that the that neither party would would represent what the people want and finally the people would take some action do something about it but I'd, I'd rather devote our effort to seeing if we can't find out what the present two parties stand for and which one we want.

Carson: But you don't see yourself, or do you see yourself as maybe as a part of that actively, active politically again. I certainly don't give up do I?

Reagan: Uh, yeah, you... you... you sure... sure don't. I wish I could think of a good get-off line.

Carson: I have [[wikipedia:Lawrence_Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]]'s old questions you know for that.

Reagan: Nancy, Nancy you know said to say hello tonight she thought it was great that we're both in town at the same time.

Carson: You too? I get that. Thanks for being with us tonight, really.

Reagan: It's a pleasure to see you again.
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= Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson =

On December 24, 2024, Elon Musk [[xpost:1871520121212346496|posted on X]] (formerly Twitter) a short video of Ronald Reagan talking to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, adding only "Very Wise Words." The 7:43 clip went viral.<BR/>
(The portions of the full video that are included in the clip will be emphasized in the transcript below.)

This clip was a portion of a 20+ minute [[yt:xrNKguJLUYE|Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]. Reagan had just recently ended his terms as governor of California and would have just started recording his short-form radio show, as well as writing a syndicated newspaper column.

There seems to be some confusion in the Youtube video as to when this occurred. The video from the Reagan Foundation claims it was January 3, 1975, but sources such as [[wikipedia:List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson_episodes_(1975)#March|Wikipedia]], [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983692/?ref_=ttep_ep IMDB] and the videos available from the [https://www.youtube.com/@johnnycarson Johnny Carson Youtube channel], indicate the video is from March 13, 1975. This fits the early discussion, in which Reagan jokes about having been "unemployed" for a couple months.

== Transcript ==

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Carson: My first guest tonight is, uh, rather a phenomenon on a political scene as a citizen politician. Making his first try for public office, he was elected California's 33rd governor in 1966 by a majority of something around over a million votes. And he held that office, as you know, for eight years. And he used to joke that in his earlier profession he used to ride off in a sunset with the words "The End" on his back. But there are those who would say that Ronald Reagan... that 1975 may only be the beginning. Would you all complete the former governor of California, Ronald Reagan.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />
<BR />
Nice to see you.

Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment.

Carson: That's right, uh, how does it feel to be, uh, well you're not really unemployed now because I know you're doing a syndicated column and, um, for many who's been around 120 papers I think, and the radio show and on the lecture tour but how does it feel to be, I don't want to use the word, temporarily out of politics or not but we'll get into that later, uh, how's it feel to be away from Sacramento?

Reagan: Well it's doing what I'm doing I wanted to for a long time, it's very exciting and um there's mixed emotions when you step down there's always things that you had left undone that you'd like to have done but then uh all of a sudden the curtain's pulled and that chapter's over and uh...

Carson: Somebody else takes over. Did you have any major disappointments? What would you like to have done, your biggest disappointment, maybe your biggest highlight in office as you look back on it.

Reagan: Well, uh, I'll start with the biggest highlight. The first of all... was proving that some things I'd long believed as a citizen would work. That you could introduce common sense in government and after the first traumatic shock you kind of made some of it work. We, um, we came into quite a... a mess and at the end of eight years... You know government, in the United States, federal, state and local, has been growing for 20 years, in size, about two and a half times as fast as the increase in population... except for the last eight years in California.<BR />
We turned over a government that was the same size as the one we inherited eight years ago. There'd been no growth and in some departments this meant an increase of as much as 66 percent in the workload. But, um, part of that was the welfare reforms.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: Welfare was increasing here in California 40,000 cases a month and we left with about 400,000 fewer
people on welfare than there were four years ago. This saved the taxpayers about a billion dollars but what was equally important we were spread so thin we couldn't do what we should have done for, uh, the really needy, the really deserving and we were able to increase their grants by way of those reforms 43 percent.<BR />
Now you asked for what was the greatest disappointment the people handed it to us when, I think they were deceived, but when they voted down the tax limitation plan. I still say that the answer to our problems in this country even at the National level is to have a law that says there is a percentage limit of the people's earnings that government cannot go beyond without the consent of the people.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />

Carson: You're talking about... You're talking about the gross income of the country and how much they can appropriate for us...

Reagan: That's right.

Carson: ... for federal projects.

Reagan: See... when, um, when you and I were boys back in the Midwest...

Carson: Right....

Reagan: Governments, federal state and local were only taking about 15 cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're
taking almost half of every dollar earned in the United States and most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in the so-called business taxes, you know, the politician that stands up and yells, "Oh let's save the little man, let's tax business" and everybody yells "hurray". They haven't figured out that every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production and the customer winds up paying it when he buys the product. It's a hidden sales tax. There's 116 of them in a... the suit of clothes that each one of us is wearing.

Carson: Uh-huh. So a lot of economists have suggested, and I don't know they'll ever come to be in this country, that they're if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations and maybe tax loopholes and even on the rich certain loopholes and and made a percentage income and made a flat fee without all of the deductions that the government might raise as much money as they do now.

Reagan: Oh sure and really the loopholes, this has been overdone by the politicians too. The bulk of the money that is taken by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people didn't have them they couldn't pay their income tax; interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their... on their car, their property taxes on their home, if they have one and so forth. These are, in politicians eyes, loopholes. But we ought to have tax reform and we ought to start by making it so simple that you don't have to hire a lawyer to find out how much you owe every year.

Carson: That's for sure it used to be uh it used to be a little simplified but not anymore.

Reagan: We... Johnny, we live in the only country in a world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income.

Carson: [Laughs] You might be right.<BR />
Why do you think people are so they seem to be so disheartened now?<BR />
I know... Let's not get into the Watergate thing but that certainly had something to do with the, uh, the antipathy, I think, of a lot of people toward government, now we we see these revelations, of whether their revelations, or at least accusations that possibly the C.I.A. has been involved in some operations that they shouldn't have been involved in, certainly domestically, and people regularly get turned off. How do you... How do you turn people around and say "All right now, we're not going to do this anymore," and every day you see more of these things and I think people withdraw further and further and that's too bad.

Reagan: I know and I think part of it is because we're being bludgeoned every day... it's news... bad things are news we just every day we pick up and they read and record another tenth of a percent unemployment and so forth.<BR />
We keep hearing the the bad things... we hear the accusations and we're kind of used to accepting the accusation as proof of guilt. Now I'm [[wikipedia:United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States|on the C.I.A. Commission]], so I'm rather limited... I cannot talk at this stage...

Carson: True.

Reagan: But I think one of the sad things is that the American people cannot know instead, frankly, we have to have a counter intelligence organization for our own safety. If the American people knew the extent to which were being spied on by the Russians, they'd throw détente out the window and Brezhnev and a few fellows with it.

Carson: Well, obviously, I agree that... that has to go on internationally to protect your national security but when they start looking at, you know, their own their own congressmen and own private citizens who's only a threat to national security seem to be to voice some difference of opinions that's going a little over the line isn't it.

Reagan: No because... well again as I say we...

Carson: Oh that's right you can't...

Reagan: We can't... we can't give any progress report for you...

Carson: You want to speak into the ashtray here and tell me privately.

Reagan: All I'd say to the people is wait until the report comes in and I think when a report comes in, uh um, maybe they might be greatly reassured.

Carson: I didn't mean to put you behind the eight ball there I realize of course you're on that commission and you couldn't expand on that. Let's take a brief break and we'll come right back and get on another subject

''(Commercial Break, 7:27)''

Carson: We're talking with, uh, former governor Reagan and uh during the break we were discussing what I mentioned, uh, that I thought most people uh were not apathetic I think they're confused, basically, because you hear intelligent people from both political parties or in the middle, conservatives and liberals, and they all seem to have different answers as to what is going wrong in the country. Some people say well let's let the government spend billions of dollars and then other people say no no more federal spending, uh, let's give the tax rebates, and the other intelligent people say no tax rebates we've got to do this and do that so everybody is confused how do you see the thing what how are we going to get out of this?

Reagan: Well, Johnny I think that one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer and government's the problem. ''(Applause)'' You... A moment ago you asked you know about people and feeling not only confused but low and and down in America.<BR />
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around... you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on Earth. And we've asked so much of government and we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves and if government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks we'd never miss them.<BR />
Now the... if the people...

Carson: Anybody you had in mind, particularly?

Reagan: No, I said this while I was in government.

Carson: Okay.

Reagan: Our biggest problem is that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal state and local, the permanent employees and they've come to the place that they actually determine policy in this country more than does the Congress of the United States. There are 14 and a half million public employees in the United States, that's quite a voting bloc, and the bureaus and agencies not in Washington...<BR />
I heard you talking earlier about some of the research programs. Well there was a senator the other day, and he took up some pages of the Congressional Record. He was doing the same thing you were, listing all these crazy research programs and how much they were costing and wound up his speech by introducing his own. He wants a study in a research of transcendental meditation.<BR />
So you know there's a state senator in Michigan, and he just found out the other day, they got a $93,000 study on whether chitlins are bad for you, and and he said that as a fourth generation chitlin eater he figured that he could tell you how for 93 cents you can find out the answer to that.

Carson: No we laugh at those things but they do happen, I guess.

Reagan: Oh, listen there, you had... you had some beauties, and there's some others. What would you say if I told you about one, a study, in which... this was called the um, the [[75-01-A4|Demography of Happiness]]. And in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people; they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less; and they found out that well people are happier than sick people.

Carson: That's good. Glad to know that.

Reagan: $249,000 to find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy than old, poor, and sick.

''(Laughter and Applause)''

Carson: So, when you say now that it's the government may be the problem, so... so what do people do?<BR />
They have to look to somebody and you say if they look for themselves that's uh... It may be good advice, but how
about somebody who's on a, you know a social security pension or a pension they're trying to live on a $150 per month you know, they have to look to somebody, I guess...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: They're saying "Hey we can't make it, we can't afford to go to a doctor."

Reagan: Well 62% of the people can't stay home in an election and cure things as we did in the last election.

Carson: I just read this week... on... I heard this week on the radio they dropped 300,000 voters from the Los Angeles roll because they didn't take the time to go to the polls in the last election. Three hundred thousand people!

Reagan: The lowest percentage in history only 38 percent of the people voted in the national election and this means that people aren't paying any attention to what, well, here a poll was taken recently that found out that only 46 percent of the people in the poll could name their United States Congressman. But what was worse 86 percent of those who could name him, couldn't tell you a single thing that he represented or stood for.

Carson: They just knew that he represented the state...

Reagan: He was a congressman but what's he doing while he's up there and the same is true at the at the local levels of government and... and all the rest. But uh...

Carson: So you're saying people really have to take an active interest and you have to have, uh, citizen action groups locally and uh...

Reagan: And let them know ''[crosstalk]''<BR />
Now the special interest groups aren't as everyone thought big powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade government to do things as a matter of fact I don't know anyone with less influence today in government
than business they're just a convenient whipping boy. but it's the groups that have got a particular axe to grind
you can't have a power plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.<BR />
<BR />
Now I think I'm an environmentalist and I do not agree with those people way over the edge who paved the whole country over in the name of progress, but also I don't like those on the other extreme that won't let you build a house unless it looks like a bird's nest someplace in the middle we got to allow... people are ecology too.<BR />

Carson: Right...

Reagan: Well this kind of group and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to to clear up the air. We're the only country in the world that set out to do it that way. The automobile industry, over and over again, told government if they give them more time, the answer lay in making the motor more efficient and making it burn the fuel better and... when they were given the limited time there was only one thing they could turn to... that was the add-ons that you had to go.

Carson: And, uh, the verdict is really kind of still out on on those whether they're going to add more sulfuric acid to the to the air or not.

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: What do you think is going to happen... Now you've been asked this question... I'm sure you knew that I
was... would might possibly bring it up tonight, uh, there's an election coming up you're, uh, you're out of politics now but you're speaking, and as I say, you're going around the country. Do you envision a possibility say in '76 if the
convention say was deadlocked. I'm giving you all the theories and so forth and the conservatives took over possibly and
got control of the, us, of the electoral process and they couldn't quite make a decision and they came to you and said "Governor Reagan uh we can't decide between Mr., uh, Ford and Mr. Rockefeller, we're divided um would you like to uh would you like to go to the White House."

Reagan: Uh, you remember that answer I gave you about the C.I.A.?

Carson: Yeah. ''(Laughter)'' Come on, I know... I'm not gonna buy them. Now I can understand the C.I.A. now but uh... I thought that was delicately phrased.

Reagan: Yes. Verbose but delicate.

Carson: Yeah, verbose but delicate.

Reagan: That one I, um, no I think it's an unanswerable question. I don't think anyone in view of the things that are going on the last few years knows what's going to happen in the in the next two years, down the road. I think that everyone should hope and pray that people are there will do the job so well there won't be any question about it because if they do then everything's all right with the rest of us, uh,

Carson: Do you think they're doing their job well?

Reagan: Well I agree with some things and disagree with others. When they... when they give me a... when they give me a choice between a 53 billion dollar deficit in the budget and an 80 billion dollar deficit, when budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's any room to be on either side of that argument. I think the answer to
curing inflation is a balanced budget.

Carson: Now how do you do that? I mean how do you balance the budget?

Reagan: Well balancing the budget is like protecting...

Carson: You don't spend more than you take in.

Reagan: Right. It's like protecting your virtue. You have to learn to say no.

''(Applause)''

Carson: There's got to be another way. ''(Laughter)'' What's the second option?

Reagan: Well, no, there's some ways that this could be brought about first of all that limitation. Here's another one.
Why shouldn't we have in addition to a simplified income tax why shouldn't we also have a law that says that anytime a legislator a congressman introduces a spending program he has to introduce with it a tax program to pay for it then let the people find out.

There was a woman that from a financial firm that was back at the president's Economic Council and her words weren't quoted... Everybody else's words got in the paper, all the [[wikipedia:Walter_Heller|Hellers]] and the [[wikipedia:John_Kenneth_Galbraith|Galbraiths]] and all the so-called economists. And I had... I have a degree in economics so I can say this, I think an economist is someone who has a [[75-10-A2|Phi Beta Kappa key on one end of his watch chain and no watch on the other]].<BR />
<BR />
Uh, this woman said that you go to the polls and you ask the people do they want some social service... some program that government can give and the people in the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good, yeah.

Reagan: But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says put a 100 bill in each person's hand and then show them the program and say, "Now isn't that a nice program? Do you want it? Give me the hundred dollars." and she says see what the poll says then and how many people hang on with a hundred dollars instead of the program.

Carson: in other words it was rather hidden and someone doesn't know exactly where it's going to come...

Reagan: They all start... all the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch you later. And... and they they multiply all of those things that you would...<BR />
<BR />
the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, that's responsible for the budget, putting up putting the budget
together, cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal
government. But all of them can pass regulations and those regulations have the force of law. And the difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until proven guilty, when you break a regulation the fellow that charges you with a breaking the regulation, you're guilty.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: If you want to take him to court and prove you're innocent that's up to you. And all of these are things that that... um yes we can trim the budget. there's enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world.

Carson: You, uh now you took... ''(Applause)'' They took a poll of the American people the past week and I think 78 percent, or something around 75 percent were opposed to more military aid to Vietnam and Cambodia and southeast Asia in general and yet the administration uh was trying to tell the American people that a couple hundred million or 222 million dollars would make some kind of difference or that the government might make it. And, uh, how do you feel you think that that is a lost cause in a way? I think people can see humanitarian, you know, for children hospitals, et cetera, and medical supplies, and food but it seems that the public has just almost had it up with military involvement where we feel we are not directly threatened.

Reagan: Well, we we are, uh, fed up. We're war-weary after a long and badly fought war. On the other hand, and this is one where I'll probably lose a lot of people because it isn't popular or political to say this today. When we withdrew our troops we made a ceasefire, a peace agreement and it was based on, uh, supporting the non-communist forces in Indochina on a basis of one-for-one replacement, every bullet they expended, a bullet to replace it, if the communists violated the ceasefire. The Communists have violated the ceasefire 72 thousand times, since it was instituted and we brought our men home and I think for the United States to break its word, we're in that agreement we pledge, something and the Congress is now saying that the United States reserves the right to just break its word and not... What other allies ever going to trust us and I, um, there's no question that backed by Red China and the Soviet Union the Communist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia are on their way to take those over. They do, of course, Laos just automatically falls
then they're on the edge of Indonesia, 140 million people which comes within miles, at its nearest point, of the
Philippines. The Domino Theory is...

Carson: Is it still a viable theory?

Reagan: Yes it is and I... I could see the United States one day being very very lonely. Now it's a very funny thing that the same forces that want to cut our defense spending are the same ones that want to increase all these social services and this social tinkering and experimenting that hasn't worked and every time it doesn't work they just impose a more expensive program on top of it. I think the American people, if they really look at all the facts, uh, yes we want fiscal responsibility but I think we also want a country that is strong enough at all times that we can say to any adventurous guys over there on the other side of the water you better look twice brother before you start getting rough
that we can take care of ourselves. ''(Applause)''

Carson: As you said... you even before you made the statement that would probably get mixed with your, uh, uh, reaction.

Reagan: I can understand that. People aren't, and it's hard to understand how maybe your interest is involved
10 000 miles away, but Russia seems concerned that their interests extend all the way to Cuba and to South America to Chile and to other countries of that kind and they're the ones that have said they're going to impose their way of life and the rest of the world. We haven't said we want to do it to the rest of the world our way.

Carson: Let me ask you one more question before you go. Let us assume that there's a third party, that neither party seems to go...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: Uh you like this approach already, huh? Uh and they're thrown into disarray as they say and a third party is formed. You think that'll ever happen in this country? That a third party will be a major type of uh alternate to what we have well?

Reagan: I'd still prefer to see a revitalization of the two major parties we have because the two-party system has served us very well. Third parties have a notorious way of not being successful. Now the Republican party, some people say, well that was a third party 100 years ago when it started. It actually wasn't, it was a second party. The Whig party had shrunk and shrunk and then the remainder of the Whig party said the two other groups that had formed parties, 'Hey want to get together with us?' They changed their name and called themselves the other party and so it was in effect the Whigs just disappeared. It was a new second party.

Uh, maybe this is time... maybe it's time for, uh, realignment between people who might be finding themselves in the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting... I was a Democrat most of my life, I became a Republican only not too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of telling some of those people that are saying the Republican party ought to broaden its base the other day that, uh, when I switched parties I didn't do it because the two parties were alike, I did it because they were different. And I think that the two parties ought to stand up as to what they represent... what they stand for.

A third party I they have a way of electing the wrong people they because they simply divide themselves from the other forces that feel the same way and then the other fellow sneaks in and then I'd... it, it could happen that the that neither party would would represent what the people want and finally the people would take some action do something about it but I'd, I'd rather devote our effort to seeing if we can't find out what the present two parties stand for and which one we want.

Carson: But you don't see yourself, or do you see yourself as maybe as a part of that actively, active politically again. I certainly don't give up do I?

Reagan: Uh, yeah, you... you... you sure... sure don't. I wish I could think of a good get-off line.

Carson: I have [[wikipedia:Lawrence_Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]]'s old questions you know for that.

Reagan: Nancy, Nancy you know said to say hello tonight she thought it was great that we're both in town at the same time.

Carson: You too? I get that. Thanks for being with us tonight, really.

Reagan: It's a pleasure to see you again.
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= Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson =

On December 24, 2024, Elon Musk [[xpost:1871520121212346496|posted on X]] (formerly Twitter) a short video of Ronald Reagan talking to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, adding only "Very Wise Words." The 7:43 clip went viral.<BR/>
(The portions of the full video that are included in the clip will be emphasized in the transcript below.)

This clip was a portion of a 20+ minute [[yt:xrNKguJLUYE|Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]. Reagan had just recently ended his terms as governor of California and would have just started recording his short-form radio show, as well as writing a syndicated newspaper column.

There seems to be some confusion in the Youtube video as to when this occurred. The video from the Reagan Foundation claims it was January 3, 1975, but sources such as [[wikipedia:List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson_episodes_(1975)#March|Wikipedia]], [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983692/?ref_=ttep_ep IMDB] and the videos available from the [https://www.youtube.com/@johnnycarson Johnny Carson Youtube channel], indicate the video is from March 13, 1975. This fits the early discussion, in which Reagan jokes about having been "unemployed" for a couple months.

== Transcript ==

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Carson: My first guest tonight is, uh, rather a phenomenon on a political scene as a citizen politician. Making his first try for public office, he was elected California's 33rd governor in 1966 by a majority of something around over a million votes. And he held that office, as you know, for eight years. And he used to joke that in his earlier profession he used to ride off in a sunset with the words "The End" on his back. But there are those who would say that Ronald Reagan... that 1975 may only be the beginning. Would you all complete the former governor of California, Ronald Reagan.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />
<BR />
Nice to see you.

Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment.

Carson: That's right, uh, how does it feel to be, uh, well you're not really unemployed now because I know you're doing a syndicated column and, um, for many who's been around 120 papers I think, and the radio show and on the lecture tour but how does it feel to be, I don't want to use the word, temporarily out of politics or not but we'll get into that later, uh, how's it feel to be away from Sacramento?

Reagan: Well it's doing what I'm doing I wanted to for a long time, it's very exciting and um there's mixed emotions when you step down there's always things that you had left undone that you'd like to have done but then uh all of a sudden the curtain's pulled and that chapter's over and uh...

Carson: Somebody else takes over. Did you have any major disappointments? What would you like to have done, your biggest disappointment, maybe your biggest highlight in office as you look back on it.

Reagan: Well, uh, I'll start with the biggest highlight. The first of all... was proving that some things I'd long believed as a citizen would work. That you could introduce common sense in government and after the first traumatic shock you kind of made some of it work. We, um, we came into quite a... a mess and at the end of eight years... You know government, in the United States, federal, state and local, has been growing for 20 years, in size, about two and a half times as fast as the increase in population... except for the last eight years in California.<BR />
We turned over a government that was the same size as the one we inherited eight years ago. There'd been no growth and in some departments this meant an increase of as much as 66 percent in the workload. But, um, part of that was the welfare reforms.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: Welfare was increasing here in California 40,000 cases a month and we left with about 400,000 fewer
people on welfare than there were four years ago. This saved the taxpayers about a billion dollars but what was equally important we were spread so thin we couldn't do what we should have done for, uh, the really needy, the really deserving and we were able to increase their grants by way of those reforms 43 percent.<BR />
Now you asked for what was the greatest disappointment the people handed it to us when, I think they were deceived, but when they voted down the tax limitation plan. I still say that the answer to our problems in this country even at the National level is to have a law that says there is a percentage limit of the people's earnings that government cannot go beyond without the consent of the people.<BR />
<BR />
''(Applause)''<BR />

Carson: You're talking about... You're talking about the gross income of the country and how much they can appropriate for us...

Reagan: That's right.

Carson: ... for federal projects.

Reagan: See... when, um, when you and I were boys back in the Midwest...

Carson: Right....

Reagan: Governments, federal state and local were only taking about 15 cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're
taking almost half of every dollar earned in the United States and most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in the so-called business taxes, you know, the politician that stands up and yells, "Oh let's save the little man, let's tax business" and everybody yells "hurray". They haven't figured out that every tax on business is just a part of the cost of production and the customer winds up paying it when he buys the product. It's a hidden sales tax. There's 116 of them in a... the suit of clothes that each one of us is wearing.

Carson: Uh-huh. So a lot of economists have suggested, and I don't know they'll ever come to be in this country, that they're if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations and maybe tax loopholes and even on the rich certain loopholes and and made a percentage income and made a flat fee without all of the deductions that the government might raise as much money as they do now.

Reagan: Oh sure and really the loopholes, this has been overdone by the politicians too. The bulk of the money that is taken by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people didn't have them they couldn't pay their income tax; interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their... on their car, their property taxes on their home, if they have one and so forth. These are, in politicians eyes, loopholes. But we ought to have tax reform and we ought to start by making it so simple that you don't have to hire a lawyer to find out how much you owe every year.

Carson: That's for sure it used to be uh it used to be a little simplified but not anymore.

Reagan: We... Johnny, we live in the only country in a world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income.

Carson: [Laughs] You might be right.<BR />
Why do you think people are so they seem to be so disheartened now?<BR />
I know... Let's not get into the Watergate thing but that certainly had something to do with the, uh, the antipathy, I think, of a lot of people toward government, now we we see these revelations, of whether their revelations, or at least accusations that possibly the C.I.A. has been involved in some operations that they shouldn't have been involved in, certainly domestically, and people regularly get turned off. How do you... How do you turn people around and say "All right now, we're not going to do this anymore," and every day you see more of these things and I think people withdraw further and further and that's too bad.

Reagan: I know and I think part of it is because we're being bludgeoned every day... it's news... bad things are news we just every day we pick up and they read and record another tenth of a percent unemployment and so forth.<BR />
We keep hearing the the bad things... we hear the accusations and we're kind of used to accepting the accusation as proof of guilt. Now I'm [[wikipedia:United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States|on the C.I.A. Commission]], so I'm rather limited... I cannot talk at this stage...

Carson: True.

Reagan: But I think one of the sad things is that the American people cannot know instead, frankly, we have to have a counter intelligence organization for our own safety. If the American people knew the extent to which were being spied on by the Russians, they'd throw détente out the window and Brezhnev and a few fellows with it.

Carson: Well, obviously, I agree that... that has to go on internationally to protect your national security but when they start looking at, you know, their own their own congressmen and own private citizens who's only a threat to national security seem to be to voice some difference of opinions that's going a little over the line isn't it.

Reagan: No because... well again as I say we...

Carson: Oh that's right you can't...

Reagan: We can't... we can't give any progress report for you...

Carson: You want to speak into the ashtray here and tell me privately.

Reagan: All I'd say to the people is wait until the report comes in and I think when a report comes in, uh um, maybe they might be greatly reassured.

Carson: I didn't mean to put you behind the eight ball there I realize of course you're on that commission and you couldn't expand on that. Let's take a brief break and we'll come right back and get on another subject

''(Commercial Break, 7:27)''

Carson: We're talking with, uh, former governor Reagan and uh during the break we were discussing what I mentioned, uh, that I thought most people uh were not apathetic I think they're confused, basically, because you hear intelligent people from both political parties or in the middle, conservatives and liberals, and they all seem to have different answers as to what is going wrong in the country. Some people say well let's let the government spend billions of dollars and then other people say no no more federal spending, uh, let's give the tax rebates, and the other intelligent people say no tax rebates we've got to do this and do that so everybody is confused how do you see the thing what how are we going to get out of this?

Reagan: Well, Johnny I think that one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer and government's the problem. ''(Applause)'' You... A moment ago you asked you know about people and feeling not only confused but low and and down in America.<BR />
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around... you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on Earth. And we've asked so much of government and we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves and if government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks we'd never miss them.<BR />
Now the... if the people...

Carson: Anybody you had in mind, particularly?

Reagan: No, I said this while I was in government.

Carson: Okay.

Reagan: Our biggest problem is that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal state and local, the permanent employees and they've come to the place that they actually determine policy in this country more than does the Congress of the United States. There are 14 and a half million public employees in the United States, that's quite a voting bloc, and the bureaus and agencies not in Washington...<BR />
I heard you talking earlier about some of the research programs. Well there was a senator the other day, and he took up some pages of the Congressional Record. He was doing the same thing you were, listing all these crazy research programs and how much they were costing and wound up his speech by introducing his own. He wants a study in a research of transcendental meditation.<BR />
So you know there's a state senator in Michigan, and he just found out the other day, they got a $93,000 study on whether chitlins are bad for you, and and he said that as a fourth generation chitlin eater he figured that he could tell you how for 93 cents you can find out the answer to that.

Carson: No we laugh at those things but they do happen, I guess.

Reagan: Oh, listen there, you had... you had some beauties, and there's some others. What would you say if I told you about one, a study, in which... this was called the um, the [[75-01-A4|Demography of Happiness]]. And in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people; they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less; and they found out that well people are happier than sick people.

Carson: That's good. Glad to know that.

Reagan: $249,000 to find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy than old, poor, and sick.

''(Laughter and Applause)''

Carson: So, when you say now that it's the government may be the problem, so... so what do people do?<BR />
They have to look to somebody and you say if they look for themselves that's uh... It may be good advice, but how
about somebody who's on a, you know a social security pension or a pension they're trying to live on a $150 per month you know, they have to look to somebody, I guess...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: They're saying "Hey we can't make it, we can't afford to go to a doctor."

Reagan: Well 62% of the people can't stay home in an election and cure things as we did in the last election.

Carson: I just read this week... on... I heard this week on the radio they dropped 300,000 voters from the Los Angeles roll because they didn't take the time to go to the polls in the last election. Three hundred thousand people!

Reagan: The lowest percentage in history only 38 percent of the people voted in the national election and this means that people aren't paying any attention to what, well, here a poll was taken recently that found out that only 46 percent of the people in the poll could name their United States Congressman. But what was worse 86 percent of those who could name him, couldn't tell you a single thing that he represented or stood for.

Carson: They just knew that he represented the state...

Reagan: He was a congressman but what's he doing while he's up there and the same is true at the at the local levels of government and... and all the rest. But uh...

Carson: So you're saying people really have to take an active interest and you have to have, uh, citizen action groups locally and uh...

Reagan: And let them know ''[crosstalk]''<BR />
Now the special interest groups aren't as everyone thought big powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade government to do things as a matter of fact I don't know anyone with less influence today in government
than business they're just a convenient whipping boy. but it's the groups that have got a particular axe to grind
you can't have a power plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.<BR />
<BR />
Now I think I'm an environmentalist and I do not agree with those people way over the edge who paved the whole country over in the name of progress, but also I don't like those on the other extreme that won't let you build a house unless it looks like a bird's nest someplace in the middle we got to allow... people are ecology too.<BR />

Carson: Right...

Reagan: Well this kind of group and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to to clear up the air. We're the only country in the world that set out to do it that way. The automobile industry, over and over again, told government if they give them more time, the answer lay in making the motor more efficient and making it burn the fuel better and... when they were given the limited time there was only one thing they could turn to... that was the add-ons that you had to go.

Carson: And, uh, the verdict is really kind of still out on on those whether they're going to add more sulfuric acid to the to the air or not.

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: What do you think is going to happen... Now you've been asked this question... I'm sure you knew that I
was... would might possibly bring it up tonight, uh, there's an election coming up you're, uh, you're out of politics now but you're speaking, and as I say, you're going around the country. Do you envision a possibility say in '76 if the
convention say was deadlocked. I'm giving you all the theories and so forth and the conservatives took over possibly and
got control of the, us, of the electoral process and they couldn't quite make a decision and they came to you and said "Governor Reagan uh we can't decide between Mr., uh, Ford and Mr. Rockefeller, we're divided um would you like to uh would you like to go to the White House."

Reagan: Uh, you remember that answer I gave you about the C.I.A.?

Carson: Yeah. ''(Laughter)'' Come on, I know... I'm not gonna buy them. Now I can understand the C.I.A. now but uh... I thought that was delicately phrased.

Reagan: Yes. Verbose but delicate.

Carson: Yeah, verbose but delicate.

Reagan: That one I, um, no I think it's an unanswerable question. I don't think anyone in view of the things that are going on the last few years knows what's going to happen in the in the next two years, down the road. I think that everyone should hope and pray that people are there will do the job so well there won't be any question about it because if they do then everything's all right with the rest of us, uh,

Carson: Do you think they're doing their job well?

Reagan: Well I agree with some things and disagree with others. When they... when they give me a... when they give me a choice between a 53 billion dollar deficit in the budget and an 80 billion dollar deficit, when budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's any room to be on either side of that argument. I think the answer to
curing inflation is a balanced budget.

Carson: Now how do you do that? I mean how do you balance the budget?

Reagan: Well balancing the budget is like protecting...

Carson: You don't spend more than you take in.

Reagan: Right. It's like protecting your virtue. You have to learn to say no.

''(Applause)''

Carson: There's got to be another way. ''(Laughter)'' What's the second option?

Reagan: Well, no, there's some ways that this could be brought about first of all that limitation. Here's another one.
Why shouldn't we have in addition to a simplified income tax why shouldn't we also have a law that says that anytime a legislator a congressman introduces a spending program he has to introduce with it a tax program to pay for it then let the people find out.

There was a woman that from a financial firm that was back at the president's Economic Council and her words weren't quoted... Everybody else's words got in the paper, all the [[wikipedia:Walter_Heller|Hellers]] and the [[wikipedia:John_Kenneth_Galbraith|Galbraiths]] and all the so-called economists. And I had... I have a degree in economics so I can say this, I think an economist is someone who has a [[75-10-A2|Phi Beta Kappa key on one end of his watch chain and no watch on the other]].<BR />
<BR />
Uh, this woman said that you go to the polls and you ask the people do they want some social service... some program that government can give and the people in the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good, yeah.

Reagan: But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says put a 100 bill in each person's hand and then show them the program and say, "Now isn't that a nice program? Do you want it? Give me the hundred dollars." and she says see what the poll says then and how many people hang on with a hundred dollars instead of the program.

Carson: in other words it was rather hidden and someone doesn't know exactly where it's going to come...

Reagan: They all start... all the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch you later. And... and they they multiply all of those things that you would...<BR />
<BR />
the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, that's responsible for the budget, putting up putting the budget
together, cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal
government. But all of them can pass regulations and those regulations have the force of law. And the difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until proven guilty, when you break a regulation the fellow that charges you with a breaking the regulation, you're guilty.

Carson: Right.

Reagan: If you want to take him to court and prove you're innocent that's up to you. And all of these are things that that... um yes we can trim the budget. there's enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world.

Carson: You, uh now you took... ''(Applause)'' They took a poll of the American people the past week and I think 78 percent, or something around 75 percent were opposed to more military aid to Vietnam and Cambodia and southeast Asia in general and yet the administration uh was trying to tell the American people that a couple hundred million or 222 million dollars would make some kind of difference or that the government might make it. And, uh, how do you feel you think that that is a lost cause in a way? I think people can see humanitarian, you know, for children hospitals, et cetera, and medical supplies, and food but it seems that the public has just almost had it up with military involvement where we feel we are not directly threatened.

Reagan: Well, we we are, uh, fed up. We're war-weary after a long and badly fought war. On the other hand, and this is one where I'll probably lose a lot of people because it isn't popular or political to say this today. When we withdrew our troops we made a ceasefire, a peace agreement and it was based on, uh, supporting the non-communist forces in Indochina on a basis of one-for-one replacement, every bullet they expended, a bullet to replace it, if the communists violated the ceasefire. The Communists have violated the ceasefire 72 thousand times, since it was instituted and we brought our men home and I think for the United States to break its word, we're in that agreement we pledge, something and the Congress is now saying that the United States reserves the right to just break its word and not... What other allies ever going to trust us and I, um, there's no question that backed by Red China and the Soviet Union the Communist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia are on their way to take those over. They do, of course, Laos just automatically falls
then they're on the edge of Indonesia, 140 million people which comes within miles, at its nearest point, of the
Philippines. The Domino Theory is...

Carson: Is it still a viable theory?

Reagan: Yes it is and I... I could see the United States one day being very very lonely. Now it's a very funny thing that the same forces that want to cut our defense spending are the same ones that want to increase all these social services and this social tinkering and experimenting that hasn't worked and every time it doesn't work they just impose a more expensive program on top of it. I think the American people, if they really look at all the facts, uh, yes we want fiscal responsibility but I think we also want a country that is strong enough at all times that we can say to any adventurous guys over there on the other side of the water you better look twice brother before you start getting rough
that we can take care of ourselves. ''(Applause)''

Carson: As you said... you even before you made the statement that would probably get mixed with your, uh, uh, reaction.

Reagan: I can understand that. People aren't, and it's hard to understand how maybe your interest is involved
10 000 miles away, but Russia seems concerned that their interests extend all the way to Cuba and to South America to Chile and to other countries of that kind and they're the ones that have said they're going to impose their way of life and the rest of the world. We haven't said we want to do it to the rest of the world our way.

Carson: Let me ask you one more question before you go. Let us assume that there's a third party, that neither party seems to go...

Reagan: Yeah.

Carson: Uh you like this approach already, huh? Uh and they're thrown into disarray as they say and a third party is formed. You think that'll ever happen in this country? That a third party will be a major type of uh alternate to what we have well?

Reagan: I'd still prefer to see a revitalization of the two major parties we have because the two-party system has served us very well. Third parties have a notorious way of not being successful. Now the Republican party, some people say, well that was a third party 100 years ago when it started. It actually wasn't, it was a second party. The Whig party had shrunk and shrunk and then the remainder of the Whig party said the two other groups that had formed parties, 'Hey want to get together with us?' They changed their name and called themselves the other party and so it was in effect the Whigs just disappeared. It was a new second party.

Uh, maybe this is time... maybe it's time for, uh, realignment between people who might be finding themselves in the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting... I was a Democrat most of my life, I became a Republican only not too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of telling some of those people that are saying the Republican party ought to broaden its base the other day that, uh, when I switched parties I didn't do it because the two parties were alike, I did it because they were different. And I think that the two parties ought to stand up as to what they represent... what they stand for.

A third party I they have a way of electing the wrong people they because they simply divide themselves from the other forces that feel the same way and then the other fellow sneaks in and then I'd... it, it could happen that the that neither party would would represent what the people want and finally the people would take some action do something about it but I'd, I'd rather devote our effort to seeing if we can't find out what the present two parties stand for and which one we want.

Carson: But you don't see yourself, or do you see yourself as maybe as a part of that actively, active politically again. I certainly don't give up do I?

Reagan: Uh, yeah, you... you... you sure... sure don't. I wish I could think of a good get-off line.

Carson: I have Laurence Spivak's old questions you know for that.

Reagan: Nancy, Nancy you know said to say hello tonight she thought it was great that we're both in town at the same time.

Carson: You too? I get that. Thanks for being with us tonight, really.

Reagan: It's a pleasure to see you again.
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The advocates of government medicine in our country are still at
it and one could say probably closer than ever to achieving their goal
of compulsory socialized medicine. One can't help but wonder why oh
why they won't open their eyes and really look at how government-run
medicine is doing in countries that already have it.

Our British cousins in the United Kingdom are most often cited
as an example of why we should socialize the entire health care
field. But what are the British doing while all this praise is being
heaped upon them? They're trying to get back to the kind of private,
fee for service medicine we have here in the U.S.--that's what they
are doing.

The British Electrical and Plumbing Trades Union has just negotiated
an additional fringe benefit for its 45,000 members and their families:
Nothing less than a complete package of private health care benefits.
And they aren't alone. The automobile association will soon be offering
its 5.3 million members a new plan guaranteeing private medical care
whenever admission to a National Health Service Hospital takes more than
six weeks. Such a wait, I might add, is rather normal in old blighty.
Another firm IBM, has just bought private health insurance for all its
15,000 employees in England.

Now all of this doesn't mean England's massive tax-supported
National Health service is being discontinued. It just means that
people are willing to pay if they can get treatment more quickly,
choose their own doctors and hospitals and have such other amenities as
private rooms.

Britain now has eight private health plans along the line of our
own Blue Cross. They have two-and-a-half million members and are
adding 100,000 a year. Because of this there has been an expansion of
purely private medical facilities. The number of private hospitals is
increasing 10 percent a year. An American company, American Medical
International, Inc. is investing $85 million in seven new private
hospitals in England and Wales. And we can expect even more because
the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is
expected to restore the tax exemption for worker of some $110 million
in employer financed health plans. The Labor party had imposed the tax
to discourage the growth of private health care.

It's easy to see why private health care is growing even in the
face of the so-called "free" government care. There are three-fourths
of a million people on the waiting list of the Nationalized Health
Program for operations such as hernias, gallstones, hip replacements,
varicose veins--even tonsillectomies. Indeed children are waiting as
long as three years to have their tonsils out.

Britain has had 30 years to make its government medical program
work. What is happening there is typical of other nations with
government health plans.

Shouldn't we profit by their experience and not follow them down
the road of socialized medicine?

This is Ronald Reagan.

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79-15-5

2026-03-29T01:47:47Z

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= Salt =

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=== Transcript ===
Over the past 15 years we have permitted the Soviet Union to derive
us of our nuclear advantage while at the same time it increased its
superiority in conventional forces. Our once unrivaled advantage in
naval strength is melting away.

How do we support our friends and defend our vital interests in the
Middle East? How do we protect our own freedom? And how in Heaven's
name did we get in this perilous situation?

Well, we were entranced by the notion that if we pounded our swords
into plowshares the Soviets would do likewise. They did exactly the
opposite. While we made actual reductions in our strategic programs,
they made massive investments in theirs.

Oh! they talked about arms control, and even seemed to hold out
the promise of real progress. But somehow, progress was always just
around the corner--waiting for us to make a few more concessions.

In 1972 we presented Salt I as a "turning point in the arms race,"
and began our reliance on what is called the "SALT process", which
included the doctrine of "Mutual Assured Destruction." At the same
time the Soviets began their exploitation of our wish to believe.

Toward the end of the last administration we began a recovery of
our military strength. The B-1 bomber was scheduled for production, the
new MX missile was to be accelerated, the decline in our Navy was to be
reversed and many other urgent programs were set in motion.

With the promise of long range defense programs to provide for our
security we went forward with the SALT II negotiations. But now the
B-1 bomber has been cancelled without any quid pro quo from the Soviets:
the MX has been slowed_ down: the cruise missile delayed the Navy's ship
building program out back; and, under the heat of a Soviet propaganda
attack, we - have halted development of a weapon that could have
neutralized Russia's massive tank forces on the NATO front.

Simple arithmetic tells us that the gap in military strength
between us and the Soviets can only grow wider if we continue on our
present course. When you examine the new SALT II agreement you see that
it isn't true, as claimed by some, that it will put a brake on the arms
race, save money and be adequately verifiable. SALT II is not Strategic
Arms Limitation, it is Strategic Arms Buildup, with the Soviets adding a
minimum of 3,000 nuclear warheads to their inventory.

We must restore the security of the U.S. and we should make it
emphatically known to the Soviets and--more importantly--to the nations
of the free world that we intend to do just that. At the same time,
let's assure the Soviet Union we will join in any arms limitation agreement
that legitimately reduces nuclear armaments to the point that neither
country represents a threat to the other.

But this treaty, flawed as it is, should be shelved.

This is Ronald Reagan.

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79-15-4

2026-03-29T01:46:00Z

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= Israel II =

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Our own policymakers have yet to grasp the fact that territorial
disputes among Arab states are persistent. Ethnic and religious rivalries
abound. Conservative and radical attitudes regarding social change are
constantly in conflict. The tragedy of the Lebanese civil war and the
border war between the two Yemens earlier this year are two cases in
point.

The existence of Israel has served as a bastion of liberal democracy
in the heart of the area. Our own position would be weaker without the
political and military assets Israel provides. Yet, America's own
policymakers downgrade Israel's geopolitical importance as a stabilizing
force and as a military offset to the Soviet Union.

The fall of Iran has increased Israel's value as perhaps the only
remaining strategic asset in the region on which the United States can
truly rely. Israel's strength derives from the reality that her
affinity with the West is not dependent on the survival of an autocratic
or capricious ruler. Israel has the democratic will, national cohesion,
technological capacity and military fiber to stand forth as America's
trusted ally.

With a democratic political system like our own we need have no
fear of Israel's political stability or of the rise of a radical
anti-American leadership at her helm. Her intelligence services provide
critical guidance to ongoing regional development, the technical know-how
of her specialists could be used to service American equipment in a
crises, and her facilities and airfields could provide a secure point
of access if required at a moment of emergency.

Further, Soviet planners must constantly take into account the
effective dominance of the Israeli forces especially it? air force.
In a moment of crises the knowledge that this air force can create a "zone
of danger" and uncertainty to the U.S.S.R must greatly restrict Soviet
options and thereby facilitate the tasks of American planners.

Egypt--friendly to us--may well be able and prepared to take a
front-line position in defense of Western security interest. To the
extent that it can participate, so much the better. But it cannot
substitute for a strong Israel in the ever-turbulent Middle East.

So it seems foolhardy to risk weakening our most critical
remaining regional strategic asset through building the basis for a
radical Palestinian state on her borders or through providing her with
insufficient military assistance. If we were to pursue such a course,
the task of Kremlin planners would be greatly eased and a determined
barrier to Soviet expansionism in the region would have been withdrawn.

Only by full appreciation of the critical role the state of Israel
plays in our strategic calculations can we build the foundation for
thwarting Moscow's designs on· territories and resources vital to our
security and our national well-being.

This is Ronald Reagan.

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79-15-3

2026-03-29T01:43:25Z

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= Israel I =

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It seems to me the paramount American interest in the Middle
East is to prevent the region from falling under the domination of the
Soviet Union. Were Moscow, or even its radical allies in the region,
allowed to establish dominance or acquire a stranglehold on the West's
sources of petroleum, either at the wellhead or a various oil route
chokepoints, the economies of the major industrial states would be
jeopardized and the capacity of NATO and Japan to resist Soviet pressure
would be dangerously impaired. Indeed, any American government which
allowed oil supplies to its allies to be placed in question would almost
certainly invite the neutralization of Western Europe and Japan, the
encirclement of China, and--eventually--the isolation of our own country.

The critical importance of the Middle East to American global
interests should be obvious, and yet our nations policies
continue the gradual erosion of our influence and power in the region.
Today, the Soviet Union is capitalizing on its huge military buildup by
raising the level of risk. The Soviet fleet has the run of the
Mediterranean, free access to the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf and
is extending its global reach.

This assertion of Soviet military power at both ends of the Middle
East is evident in their string of bases and naval facilities in Iraq,
Syria, South Yemen, Ethiopia and Libya. The armies of all these countries
are largely dependent on Soviet equipment. The recent turmoil in Iran,
Afghanistan, and Turkey--all bordering upon the Soviet Union--is crucial
to the balance of power between the Soviet Union and the West, and in
each case chaos means a gain for the Kremlin.

Meanwhile our record is one miscalculation regarding the extent of
Soviet capabilities and Soviet interest in affecting or controlling
the flow of oil from the Middle East, in base rights and in defense
pacts. Swayed by "détente", our policymakers have yet to achieve a clear
understanding of the Soviet role in the region. Moscow's objectives are
part of a major effort to alter the global balance of power-in it's
favor.

The Iranian debacle is a recent example of the extent to which
U.S. indecision and ignorance of the challenge in the region
can obscure the true stakes. Continued instability provided important
opportunities to the Soviets to expand their sphere of influence and to
deny or control oil resources vital to the Western economies. Meanwhile
those leaders in the area who have cast their fate with the United States
now seriously question our political judgment and our ability and
willingness to back our friends and to withstand to their survival.

The Soviet Union--not the United States--is poised to fill the
power void left "East of Suez" by the British. On the next broadcast
I'll do Chapter two.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-15-2

2026-03-29T01:41:23Z

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= Cuban Conditions =

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In my last broadcast, I outlined the 20 year record of military
interference that Fidel Castro has compiled in Africa, the Middle East
and Latin America. But this meddling has taken its toll at home. The
costs of this military adventurism along with the inherent inefficiencies
of the Communist system has brought Cuba a sluggish economy, chronic
shortages and a serious deterioration in the work ethic. And, there are
reports that many Cubans are getting tired of waiting for the promised
land Castro has been promising them for 20 years.

But they will have to wait. Even Castro has warned his people that
it's going to take another 20 years of sacrifice before his goals are
realized. You can bet that if Castro should happen to be in power 20 years
from now, he will tell a new generation of Cubans the same thing. There
are many fundamental problems with Communist Cuba which will continue to
deny the nation the prosperity of the West. Carl Migdale, a reporter for
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, visited Cuba recently and saw the inadequacies of
Castro's regime.

Many Cubans are complaining that Castro's military exploits abroad
are sapping the nation's econmic resources. Cuba is in no position to
be sending troups and weapons throughout the Third World, they say, when
Cubans face chronic shortages of the basic necessities of life. Many were
angered by the millions it cost to entertain Third World diplomats ·at the
recent summit conference in HAVANA. One Cuban worker told Migdale "The
government imported goods for over a year for the summit. That meant
there was less for the people." An Havana housewife complained that she
cant't find detergents because the government says it doesn't have the'
money, even though it spent 100 million dollars on the summit meeting.
Well, here is how a Communist party official answers complaints like these.
"Those who complain don't understand that the summit was a defeat for the
United States and a triumph for our revolution." But apparently many
Cubans would rather have laundry detergent than a revolutionary triumph.

Food in Cuba is as scarce as ever. Despite rationing, Cubans must
still wait in lines for hours to get their allotments. There are also
long lines for just about everything else. Do you think you have problems
with rush-hour traffic? How would you like to wait up to four hours in
the morning just to board a cummuter bus to take you to work?

Adding to the tension in this supposedly classless society, is the
emergence of a sizable elite with many special privileges. Perhaps as
many as two million out of a total population of 10 million enjoy special
status as political and party officials, managers, members of the armed
forces and students.

Morale among workers is at an all-time low. The work ethic seems
nowhere to be found. Absenteeism runs high. This has compounded problems
for an economy already suffocating from red tap, absurd government
planning and cozy, corrupt relationships between businessmen and government
officials.

There are no signs yet that the dissatisfaction among many Cubans will
soon evolve into open revolt against the regime, but it's clear that Castro's
Cuban Communism is a failure. It is hard to imagine why any Third World
country would want to buy his brand of government.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-15-1

2026-03-29T01:39:51Z

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= Cuba Overseas =

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In recent weeks, our attention has been fixed on the subject of
Russian troops in Cuba. The discovery has been widely considered as
just another indication of the Soviets' desire to expand their presence
in the western hemisphere. In exchange for Soviet military support, and
some nine million dollars a day in economic subsidies, Cuban dictator
Fidel Castro serves as a cheerleader for Russian interests throughout the
world. A recent notable example of this came at the recent Third
World "summit" conference in Havana. In contradiction to the supposed
ideal of the organization to assume a position of nonalignment between the
superpowers, Castro made a mockery of the proceedings with his podium-
pounding exhortations to the Third World nations Soviet system.

Despite the power the Soviet Union is able to exert over Castro, the
Cuban dictator still fancies himself a revolutionary leader who aids
and inspires revolts in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. The
Russians aren't bothered by Castro's delusions ·because much of
his international interference fits nicely into their own foreign policy
designs.

The evidence of Castro's meddling in foreign affairs is staggering.
Back in 1961, just two years after seizing power, Castro sent a handful
of troops to Ghana to provide training in guerilla tactics. In 1963, he
sent tanks, arms and advisors to Algeria, which was then involved in a
border dispute with Morocco. The Congo received Castro's blessing---
and Castro's troops---in 1965. In 1973, Castro ventured into Middle East
affairs. South Yemen and, according to some reports, Syria, received
Cuban military support. With this pattern established, U.S. policy makers
should not have been surprised by the major Cuban involvement in Angola
and Ethiopia in 1975 and 1976. 20,000 Cuban troops fought on the
Communist side in Angola. 16,000 troops were sent to Ethiopia.

Latin America is a favorite Castro target, too. Most recent is his
well-documented support of the more radical elements of the Sandinistas
in Nicaragua. Castro readily acknowledges his intention to instigate
rebel movements elsewhere in the Americas, in such countries as El Salvador,
Guatemala and Honduras.

These activities pose a serious threat to our own interests. Castro
has helped undermine and overthrow a number of governments friendly to the
United States. That makes economic and military aid to Cuba seem a good
investment for the Soviet Union.

Meanwhile the Cuban people continue to suffer with economic hardships
so that their leader can sell the "virtues" of his failed system to others.
I'll discuss what life is like in Cuba in my next broadcast.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-B8

2026-03-28T15:56:21Z

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= Land =

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On September 9th a meeting took place in Reno, Nevada. Those gathering there
were representatives of the Attorney Generals of 13 Western states. They met in
response to a law passed by the Nevada legislature in July in which that state laid
claim to 49 million acres of land owned by the U.S. Government and administered by
the Bureau of Land Management.

Nevada has started what is being called the "Sagebrush Rebellion". From the
Rockies, across the deserts and all the way to the Pacific, the western states
are voicing their angry resentment of a powerful absentee landlord -- the federal
government -- which has overlaid the West with controls and regulations as irksome
as barbwire was in an earlier day.

The West has a legitimate beef (and I don't intend that to be a pun). Early
in our history, as territories became states, the federal lands within their borders
were turned over to the states for development or sale to private owners. Naturally,
the federal government retained title to lands it had actually developed for use.
These included military reservations, federal installations, national parks and
so forth.

As the nation expanded westward, however, and the newer western states were added,
a change occurred. The 100th meridian marked the change. To the east of the
meridian federal ownership of land ranges form six-tenths of one percent in Iowa to
a high of 12 percent in New Hampshire: In the District of Columbia, our nation's
capital, it only amounts of 26 percent.

But west of the meridian it's a different story. It's almost as if the government
said, "we're being foolishly generous giving all this land away." Federal
ownership goes from the six states east of the 100th meridian averaging about three
percent to the four states west of them averaging 37 percent federally owned. And,
as you continue to move west through the most recent additions to the Union the percentage
goes up in all but Washington which has 29 percent of its land in federal
ownership. Arizona is 43 percent, Utah 66 percent, Idaho 64 percent, Nevada 87 percent,
Oregon 53 percent, and California 45 percent. But then comes our largest and
newest state Alaska and the federal government stubbornly holds on to 96 percent.

This federal land has been made available for multiple use lumbering, mining,
cattle-grazing and recreational. But now the B.L.M. is writing new regulations which,
in effect, will change the rules in the middle of the game. Out in Idaho a rancher
whose cattle operation is based on the lease of 15,000 acres of grazing land (a
lease his family has held for 92 years) is told the government is taking back the
land as a winter range for deer. The E.P.A. tells him he can't poison coyotes and
the F.D.A. has ordered that only a veterinarian can administer antibiotics to cattle.
The nearest vet is 60 miles away and doesn't make house calls. The B.L.M. is
suspending the 10-year leases and changing to a year-to-year basis and imposing 212
separate environmental impact statements on the ranchers.

Is the federal government a better custodian of 700 million acres than the
states would be? In a recent fire the B.L.M. managers refused to let a rancher
help put out the fire.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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2026-03-28T15:52:51Z

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= Gadgets =

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There has been a lot of talk recently to the effect that Americans have lost
that spirit of inventiveness and ingenuity which we have been known for throughout
our history. Well, judging by the proliferation of various household gadgets designed
to save labor and sometimes money, this is not so. A recent article in U.S. NEWS AND
WORLD REPORT fills us in on the latest products you need to have a truly modern
American home.

For the apartment dweller who is conscious of using every inch of space,
designers have come up with a queen-size bed that turns into a desk. The bed is
lifted by counterweights against the wall to reveal a desk with plenty of drawers,
a bookcase and a file. The price? $2,400. Those with fireplaces will be happy to
know that they can buy a do-it-yourself chimney sweeper for under 24 dollars. The
contraption is equipped with strong brushes on four sides, so that when it is lowered
through the chimney, it cleans all four sides at once.

Do you ever have trouble deciding which television program to watch. If your
trouble is worth $1,000, you may now buy a specially designed TV set which has a
full-sized color screen with a small black-and-white inset. You can watch one
program on the color screen while monitoring another on the black-and-white inset.
Products aimed at providing the convenience of your office at home are becoming
increasingly popular. For about 15 dollars you can buy an adapter kit to turn your
family's instant camera into a photo copier. If you are the clandestine type, for
about 120 dollars you can get your very own portable paper shredder.

As you can imagine, energy-saving devices are at the peak of their popularity
right now. Most ambitious is a Minnesota company that offers a one-passenger
commuter car for about $2,800. The car gets about 100 miles per gallon. You can
buy special devices to lower the temperature of your hot water heating system to
save about a third on hot-water costs. The device includes a special booster which
raises the temperature of the water for the two appliances in your home which require
hotter water - the dishwasher and the washing machine. You may also buy a gadget
which enables you to turn off the pilot light in your gas-burning furnace when it is
not in use.

These are just some of the new labor-saving and energy-saving devices which
are catching the fancy of gadget-minded Americans. Ingenuity is alive and well
from coast-to-coast.

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79-14-B6

2026-03-28T15:42:10Z

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= The Golden Fleece =

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=== Transcript ===
Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire has faithfully for five years called
attention to examples of government extravagance and foolish spending. The Senator
makes public his award of the "Golden Fleece" to individuals, departments, agencies
or branches of government guilty of unnecessary, unwise or careless expenditures
of taxpayers' money. There have been 55 such awards in these five years.

If you are curious about why his award bears the title, "Golden Fleece," just
look at it this way; we the taxpaying citizens are the wooly creatures being shorn
every time someone in government gets extravagant.

Senator Proxmire really hit home with his most recent award. He presented it
to those who you might say govern the government - his colleagues in the U.S. Congress.
Said the Senator, "I am giving my fleece of the month to Congress for the eruption
in its staff and spending over the past decade. In that period the staff of the House
and Senate has grown by about 70% and the cost of that staff by 270 percent."

The growth is remarkable when you look at the figure. The House staff has
increased from 7,300 10 years ago to 11,600 today. The Senate did better by
doubling its staff - from 3,400 to 6,800 (that figures out to 68 staff members
per Senator).

Total staff cost this year is $550,000,000, up from $150,000,000 10 years
ago. A pay raise has been proposed which will increase this even more.
In reality however, this is only the tip of the iceberg. The real cost to us
is the increased spending generated by congressional staff. There is no way to
estimate what that total may be but there is no denying that staff makes a sizeable
contribution.

The next time you read somewhere that the coming $552 billion budget is in
response to demands by the people for more government services take that with a
large grain of salt. Far more legislation is generated by government agencies
than by popular demand.

It works like this: those entrusted with operating a government program (very
often with the best of intentions), decide they can do even more for the people
if only they can get more money, more personnel and, of course, a little more power.
They put their proposal into legislative form and then look around for a representative
or senator to introduce the bill.

Enter the congressional staffers. They have to justify their existence so they
are on the lookout for things they can present to the boss as worthwhile things to
do. The department promoters contact staffers they are acquainted with. The staffers
take the proposal to their boss as a politically attractive bill he can author.
And presto, up goes the budget. Government grows larger and the first thing you
know the congressional staff has grown 70 percent in 10 years.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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* [https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oamtechreports/AM75-02.pdf 1975 Golden Fleece award winner, Anthropometry of Airline Stewardesses]
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79-14-B5

2026-03-28T15:39:58Z

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= Radioactivity =

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=== Transcript ===
There have been some questions in the mail recently about my stand on nuclear
power. Some have challenged that the problem of nuclear waste has not been solved.
Others have taken the position that the very existence of nuclear plants threatens
us with the dread, invisible spread of radioactivity. The things we have now
learned about the harmful effects of low level radiation from the World War II
bomb tests is offered as proof that nuclear electric generating plants will be an
ongoing source of silent death.

Well, it is true that mistakes were made in those early days of atomic testing;
that there was a lack of information even among nuclear scientists. It is equally
true that we now do have an enormous fund of knowledge which makes it possible to
accurately appraise potential risk.

When Madam Curie's discoveries led to the development of the X-ray we know
there was little thought given to possible side effects. Undoubtedly there were
casualties associated with X-ray use. But would anyone suggest that the X-ray
has not been a boon to mankind with benefits far outweighing the unanticipated
side effects?

Samuel A. Wenk, research and development manager for the Southwest Research
Institute, has tried to put risk and benefit in proper perspective. He says, "We
live in a world of natural radiation. Everyone panics at the terms 'nuclear'
and 'radiation' when it comes to power plants; in truth, however, we are getting daily
doses of radiation from the sun, the ground and the buildings we live in that is
10 to 20 times greater than what is put out by nuclear power plants."

Wenk is peculiarly well qualified to speak of this--not alone by his scientific
training. He had a skin cancer removed that was caused by too much exposure to the
sun.

But here is assessment of the annual natural radiation we're all exposed to.
Ground level radiation from cosmic rays is about 45 millirems. If you fly an
average of 10 hours a month add another 62½ millirems. The average in the United
States of radiation from the ground we walk on is 60 millirems. The building materials
in our homes give off 40, and in driving 10,000 miles we get an additional 4 from
the paving materials used in streets and highways. That totals some 211 millerems
per year.

That is the equivalent of 10 chest X-rays and we haven't counted what we eat
and drink. The intake from that is 25 millirems. Then Wenk says there is localized
exposure. A wearer of dentures gets Alpha radiation which fortunately has limited
penetration. Wearing glasses adds rems of Alpha radiation to the corneas.
Cooking with natural gas exposes us to Radon, which is also found in our drinking
water-there are no average figures on this. You get more Radon from taking a shower
than you do if you take a bath.

An efficient 1000 megawatt coal generating plant exposes the nearby population
to 380 millirems a year. A nuclear power plant is restricted to less than 10 at
its own fence.

Anyone interested can get this information and more from the federal government's
Environmental Protection Agency report: "Radiological Quality of the Environment in
the U.S. - 1977."

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79-14-B4

2026-03-28T15:33:56Z

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= Red Tape =

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=== Transcript ===
There are now 151 nations in the United Nations organization. There are
several who aren't there -- including good ones, too. Member governments range
from totalitarian to authoritarian, from monarchies to representative, from dictators
to more dictators and, until recently, even an Emperor (Bokassa the First -- now
disposed). But all of them have one characteristic in common, varying only in degree;
that is, the stultifying hand of bureaucracy.

I've talked about our own bureaucratic problems, criticized bureaucratic
excesses and deplored bureaucratic arrogance. Today I'd like to show what citizens
of other counties have to put up with. You'll probably find yourself saying, "We're
not so bad off after all." But, I hope you'll also say "let's get our own act
together before we are that bad off".

In one country in South America the post office was charged with burning 3
million pieces of mail rather than delivering it. The postal officials vehemently
denied burning 3 million pieces of mail -- they said they had only burned 30,000.

An American businessman in a European country had to "nationalize" his car
which he had brought into the country. It took 12 different procedures in offices
as much as 15 miles apart with hours of waiting in each office. He now hires a
private company ta expedite such problems. The expediters are all former
bureaucrats.

A Swiss woman living in Paris, wanted to marry a Lebanese. Every time she
applied to the Prefecture of Police she learned of another government form she'd
have to fill out. Always there was another bit of information she hadn't supplied
such as her grandmothers maiden name. One day in desperation she tucked a pillow
under her dress, went to another office, shed buckets of tears and told them she
was pregnant and received instant approval of her marriage.

There was the case of a woman who was billed for 11 years for her mother's
TV set license renewals. Her mother had been dead for 11 years. She was threatened
with fines for not accepting a registered letter addressed to her mother. She
had gone to the post office and tried to get the letter by showing them her mother's
death certificate. They refused to give it to her because she didn't have written
authorization from her mother.

We usually seem to follow in our English cousins' footsteps by 10 or 12 years.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher may have some tips for us a few years down the road.

Meanwhile, a senior civil servant fired half of his staff, closed down a bunch
of government run ventures and cut his $23 million budget by a full one-third. When
he tried to show his superiors in London how his methods could be used throughout
the country, they yawned in his face.

There is one government employee to two and one half other workers in England.
We have a little way to go yet -- here it's one to four.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-B3

2026-03-28T15:21:28Z

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= The Draft =

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=== Transcript ===
There's a lot of talk about the draft these days. The question really entails
three different proposals: universal national service, military draft, and registration
for use in the event of a future draft.

Frankly, I'm opposed to universal national service. The idea rests on the assumption
that your kids belong to the state. Though voluntary service should be encouraged,
the job for determining who shall have what values and who shall do what work, when,
where, and how, in our society, is the job of the people involved - children, parents,
religious institutions, and teachers-and not the government. The individual
shouldn't be reduced to the level of a statistic to be manipulated by social engineers.

I am also opposed to a military draft in peacetime. The issue here is a basic
philosophical one. Only in a national emergency does the nation have a legitimate
claim to the mandatory service of its young people for the military.

Another issue is a mare practical one -- is the volunteer army working? I believe
it is. Test scores and statistics show no significant decline in the quality of
today's soldiers, and when I visited some of the troops in Germany last Winter, I
found them to be well-informed on current events -- in fact, probably better than
many civilians back home. Their morale was also surprisingly good.

In addition, the volunteer army ended 1978 some 2,000 members over strength, due
to the fact that more soldiers stayed in than had been predicted. When a volunteer
organization's dropout rate declines, it must be doing something right.

A more serious worry is the state of the reserves and the National Guard, most
of whose units are below strength. Yet the problem here is that the reserves and
National Guard have not been made sufficiently attractive to young people. Therefore,
the solution is to make such service more attractive.

This brings me down to the final point-registration. I oppose the institution
of a stand-by registration system.

First, the word "registration" to young people is code for "draft", an idea that
evokes painful memories of Vietnam for many and an idea that has always seemed alien
in a democratic society during peacetime.

Second, and more important, stand-by registration would not greatly speed
mobilization in time of an emergency. One defense manpower specialist I talked
with said that registration would perhaps reduce mobilization time slightly, from
110 to 90 days-but at a great cost. It seems to me that it makes more sense to
put those millions of dollars into program improvements and promotion to make the
reserves more attractive to volunteers.

Voluntary support and participation have had a lot to do with the greatness
of our nation. We should continue to rely upon it in the future.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-B2

2026-03-28T15:19:47Z

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= California =

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=== Transcript ===
Those who love California have had a hard time lately fighting an unattractive
image that has come upon the Golden State in the closing weeks of summer. First there
were the long lines at the gas stations dutifully shown on nationwide television.
Some commentators had a field day with that one. Californians were portrayed as
gas greedy road hogs in a panic at the prospect of not being able to drive in their
usual profligate way.

It was pretty hard to get the truth across that on a per driver basis Californians
averaged less mileage per month than their fellow Americans in Maryland, Virginia,
and even in the limited area of the District of Columbia. It was even harder to
convince the Department of Energy that basing California's gasoline allocations on
the 1972 census was an error of sizeable proportions. California has some four
million more automobiles than it did in 1972.

But it was nature that give California its latest pasting. In a spell of
weather not experienced in more than half a century a heat wave settled on the state.
The cooling ocean breezes off the Pacific stayed well out in the Pacific. The nights,
which even in summer are usually 20 to 30 degrees cooler than daytime temperatures,
stayed at almost the same level as the baking days.

Born of the heat, an inversion layer settled in at 400 feet. And since the mountains
surrounding Los Angeles are higher than 400 feet the smog just piled up under
that inversion layer until the air was thick enough to stir with a spoon. Then,
and also born of the heat, brush fires started, adding billowing smoke and ashes
to the smog.

Well, the heat wave broke, the inversion layer lifted, the fires were doused
as they always are and apparently the crisis was over. The Trojans of Southern
California were rated the Number one football team in the nation and things seemed
to be pretty normal.

This came the unkindest blow of all. One of the summer sports most Californians
are denied is swatting mosquitos. Oh - there are a few places where the little
monsters can be found - when Spring comes to the High Sierra, for example, but
certainly not in Southern California. That is - until this very unusual year.

Now the San Diego area-particularly the community of Imperial Beach-has been
invaded by swarms of large, economy size "skeeters." Like the plot of a horror film
the source of the plague has been located. It is several hundred acres of swamp in
Tia Juana river estuary. So you say -- like in those same movies -- "happy ending".
But no -- the federal government is in the cast of this story and the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service refuses to allow (on environmental grounds) spraying of the
swamp. Meanwhile the humans in the area are being eaten alive.

But never sell California short. The Mayor of Imperial Beach has declared
the swamp will be sprayed even if it means going to jail. And he has declared he'll
be at the nozzle of the first sprayer-jail or no jail.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-B1

2026-03-28T15:16:58Z

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= Coal =

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=== Transcript ===
Some time ago when the President addressed us on energy, he advocated
converting more of our utilities and industrial plants from oil and natural gas
to coal. He even set a figure for utilities -- substitute coal for 50 percent
of the oil they are presently using.

Well you can't argue with the fact that we have enough coal to last 900
years. We have an estimated one-third of all the known coal reserves in the
world. But you can ask, why aren't we burning more? You can even ask why aren't
we mining more? We are producing about 150 million tons a year -- well below our
capacity.

The answer to these questions was given a few years ago by a spokesman for
the energy industry. He said very simply, "Under federal policies and regulations,
we can't mine it, and we can't burn it." "It", of course being coal.

A massive network of regulations has led to our present situation.
Washington is aware of this problem because Carl E. Bogge, President of the National
Coal Association, sent a lengthy memo to the White House listing the federal
practices that made the President's request for conversion impossible to fulfill.

I'm indebted to a fine journalist and friend, M. Stanton Evans, for collecting
and making public these government road blocks to more use of coal. They are: A
moratorium on leasing federal lands for coal mining since 1971; the unworkability
of the Department of Interiors coal leasing program; that same department's
regulations under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act which may even
put some operators out of business; some policies under that same act which will
declare some coal bearing lands "unsuitable" for mining; public lands withdrawal;
and emission standards under the Environmental Protection Agency which could make
unusable large shares of the most economically recoverable U.S. coal reserves.

Stan Evans went on to cite more of Mr. Bogge's memorandum, such as taxes on
the coal industry; price controls on other fuels which held them so low, that coal
couldn't compete; and increased coal slurry pipelines for transporting coal which
would compete with existing means of transportation.

By far, however, the biggest road block are the so-called "ambient air
standards." Every air quality control region in the U.S. is in violation of those
standards, mainly because of what are called "suspended particulates." Now this
isn't necessarily man caused pollution. These particulates can be dust, swamp gas
and other of natures wonders. But because they are present we can't add whatever
particulates might be produced by mining or burning coal.

It would seem that a study is called for weighing the regulations and their
benefits against the benefits of utilizing our biggest natural fuel supply.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-A7

2026-03-28T15:08:26Z

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= In Defense of Success =

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The rich get poorer and the poor get poorer. That's how George Gilder begins
his unorthodox but thoughtful defense of society's most successful members in a recent
essay in the AMERICAN SPECTATOR. Gilder provides ample evidence to support his
claim that in every age and every culture, society's most productive members seem to
be subjected to intense vilification. In recent history, we have witnessed the
holocaust of Jews in Nazi Germany; the pogroms of Kulaks and Jews in Russia; the
slaughter of Ibo tribesmen in northern Nigeria; the killing of nearly a million
overseas Chinese and now, in Vietnam, the wholesale expulsion of ethnic Chinese.
In each of these examples, the tragedy was precipitated by a combination of racism
and resentment of the minority's economic successes. Gilder writes "Everywhere
nations proclaim a determinations to 'develop'; but everywhere, too, their first
goal is expropriate, banish or kill the existing developers."

In the United States, this vicious resentment takes a milder form. Often, an
individual who succeeds in business is assumed to be dishonest. These assumptions
sometimes take the form of an ethnic stereotype. Thus, the successful Italian
businessman is automatically assumed by many to be involved in organized crime. A
successful Chinese restaurant or laundry is a front for the opium trade, and so forth.
Non-ethnic attitudes toward businessmen take an equally harsh tone. Those who
subscribe to these beliefs are part of a growing segment of Americans who assume that
the accumulation of wealth is inherently a dishonest activity. That one man's
wealth causes another's poverty.

We might just dismiss these notions as the superstition and envy of those who
have failed to attain their goals in a free society. But, according to Gilder,
these attitudes have captured the hearts and minds of many in influential government
and academic circles. Gilder writes "Wealth causes poverty -- an idea that has
burst like blinding sunlight in the mind of many a young radical and still shines
brightly for all those who seek some alternative to hard work, thrift, inequality
and free exchange as a way of escaping want. How much easier it is -- rather than
learning the hard lessons of the world -- merely to rage at the rich..."

The bureaucratic class is bent upon convincing the poor it claims to represent
that the producers of wealth are the cause of their problems. That one individual's
success means that another. is being downtrodden. Nothing could be further from the
truth. American society is the most mobile society in the history of the world.
The business successes of some are successes for all of us because of their total
effect on our economy -- in terms of jobs, investment and consumer choices. Most
successes still recognize the value of virtues such as hard work, ambition and the
willingness to take risks. We know that these attributes can still set an individual
on a path toward success, regardless of his background. Success is something to
reward and congratulate in America, not something to resent.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-A6

2026-03-28T14:53:02Z

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= Defectors =

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When the Cultural Exchange Program between the United States and the Soviet
Union there was concern on the part of many Americans that the Soviets might try
to use it for espionage purposes. Whether they did or not I don't know, but as
it turned out the Soviets did get more than they bargained for. Or perhaps I
should say they lost more than they bargained for.

Artists and entertainers in the Soviet Union are a special class in the
"classless" society of the "Workers Paradise." They live at a higher standard
than the average Russian and have privilege's matched or exceeded by only the
hierarchy. Even so, there must be something lacking. Could it be something so
simple as individual freedom?

Late August and early September found the cultural exchange a losing deal for
the Kremlin. On August 22nd the superstar of the touring Bolshoi Ballet, Alexander
Gudonov, walked off the stage in New York City and asked for sanctuary in this
country. On September 22nd the Bolshoi was in Los Angeles, Godunuv's replacement
Leonid Kozlov did the same thing taking his ballerina wife Vallentina with him.
The very next day in Switzerland where a Soviet ice show was appearing the
top two Russian skating stars, both Olympic champions, defected.

Of course, there have been other defections in years past, but spaced out at
greater intervals. We nave in our country the former conductor of the Soviet
national symphony, Kirin Kondrashin, and the world renowned ballet stars Nureyev,
Natalia Makarova and the inimitable Baryshnikov. The Kremlin theme song these days
could very well be that old World War I ditty, "How You Going to Keep Them Down on
Farm After They've Seen Paris?"

On September 27th the shaken leaders in the Kremlin came up with something of
an answer to that musical question. They cancelled the 24 city United States tour
of the Moscow symphony, scheduled to open in New York City October 2nd at Carnegie
Hall. The symphony was also scheduled to officially open the season at the Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C. Some 3,500 tickets had already been sold.

This would have been the fifth U.S. tour for the orchestra. There has only
been one defection from that group and that one in 1969. Apparently the Soviet
leaders had reason to believe things might be different this time for they asked
our government to refuse sanctuary to any of the musicians fi they tried to defect.
This, of course, we could not do.

You see there are those words engraved on the Statue of Liberty which the men
in the Kremlin can never understand, "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The
wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed
to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-A5

2026-03-28T14:47:56Z

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= Hollywood East =

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=== Transcript ===
Senator Bill Roth of Delaware has done some digging into one area of federal
spending and learned that a new "tinsel town" called Hollywood-on-the-Potomac may
be abuilding.

It's hard to picture eager young performers with stars in their eyes turning
their backs on California and rushing to Washington for that big break. Or, to
imagine what our national capital might be like if the lobbyists, bureaucrats and
"pols" found themselves elbowing theatrical agents for office space.

Can't you see some new starlet writing home and saying, "It's finally
happened! After my bit part in 'Sanitary Design for Drinking Fountains,' I have
the lead in a biggie called 'Rhesus Monkeys of Santiago Island."

Believe it or not those are titles of movies being made by our government in
Washington. Here are a few others, "Identification of Some Common Sucking Lice,"
"Days of a Tree," and "How to Succeed with Brunettes." Now that last one does sound
as if it might be worth seeing.

Senator Roth has caught our attention. The nearest estimate of government
spending on film making is $6,000,000,000 a year. But that is only a guess. The
truth is there is no central accounting system to control expenditures and help
eliminate useless spending.

"There is no accurate record," the Senator says, "of how many government films
are in circulation, or are in production, no single catalogue or guide listing existing films and tapes, and no centralized process for contracting federal movies
and television advertisements. We simply have no way of knowing who is doing what,
for how much, and for what reason.

We learn that a half hour bicentennial film was made at a cost of $460,000
and seen by fewer than 500,000 people. By contrast, a half hour television show
produced commercially for $180,000 in 1977 had an audience estimated at 30 million.

In true Washington style many of the audio-visual productions are made toward
the end of the fiscal year to use up an agency's budgeted funds so they can ask for
more money in the next budge. And, like as not, many of those films are never
seen by anyone. The Senator learned that agency personnel stockpile projects so their
bosses can ask "What do you have that might cost X number of dollars before we have
to turn back our money?"

And many agencies spend money on films that simply glorify the agency's image,
thus enhancing the agency's potential for continued existence. One last point must
be made; very often the numerous agencies engaged in filming duplicate each others
product. No cross-check is made to see if someone else had made or is making the
picture an agency has listed for production.

I'm sure there is a legitimate reason for some government films. But wouldn't
it make more sense to farm that picture work out to Hollywood where there is the
greatest pool of technical and artistic talent to be found anywhere in the world?
And where there is also a considerable amount of unemployment.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-A4

2026-03-28T14:46:07Z

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= Salt II =

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=== Transcript ===
When negotiations began on the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with
the Soviet Union, five specific objectives were named as essential to protecting our
national interest. They were: to establish equal nuclear capabilities for the U.S.
and the Soviet Union; secure significant Soviet Arms reductions, especially in those
areas where Soviet offensive forces pose the greatest threat; stabilize the situation
between the two countries so that neither would be tempted to strike first during an
international crisis; reduce the effect of nuclear weapons on world politics; and,
enforce verifiable limitations to which both countries must adhere.

Those are reasonable terms and certainly fair to both the U.S. and the Soviet
Union. Whey then should our Senate waste even five minutes debating the SALT II
agreement? Because it meets none of the five specifics we listed as essential to
protect our national interest.

Point one called for equal nuclear capabilities. Note that word "capabilities".
We didn't say equal numbers. The Soviet missiles are far more powerful than ours and
the agreement permits them to go ahead with some 300 giant missiles, each armed with
a number of separately targeted warheads. We are not permitted to have anything
similar. Oh, we can have the same number of missiles but it's like comparing battleships to rowboats.
Then there is that point about stabilizing the situation so that neither side
would be tempted to settle an argument by launching a nuclear first strike. Secretary
of Defense, Harold Brown, has admitted that virtually all our I.C.B.M.'s, a
substantial number of nuclear missile carrying submarines and many of our B-52
bombers would be vulnerable to a Soviet first strike.

Even though some of our European allies express a hope that SALT II will be
ratified one can't help but wonder if they are sincere or if they are worried about
the Russian Bear sitting right on their borders. Privately they confess to many
misgivings. They had counted on the effectiveness of a new weapon -- the cruise missile
with at least a 1500 kilometer range -- for their own protection. We let the Soviets
bargain that down to a 600-kilometer range which puts most Soviet targets beyond its
reach.

Then there is the supersonic Russian Backfire Bomber minutes away from their
heartlands. WE agreed not to even include those bombers amount the weapons to be
limited by SALT II. We did likewise with an intermediate range nuclear missile,
the Soviet SS20, deployed and able to wreck every capitol city in Europe.

And as for verifiability of whether they are keeping their part of the treaty --
it just doesn't exist. SALT II allows the Soviet Union military advantages which are
denied the U.S. SALT II will not increase the chance for world peace.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-A3

2026-03-28T14:37:27Z

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= Department of Education =

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=== Transcript ===
When the two houses of Congress each vote out a bill to create, say a new
agency, but the bills differ in some details, they are sent to a conference
committee. This committee of Senators and Representatives attempts to reconcile
the differences in the bills and send a comprehensive version back to each house
for another vote.

Some time ago both house and senate approved the creation of a new cabinet
level Department of Education. This was in response to the President's pledge to
the National Education association that he would try for such a new department.
It means, of course, federal regulation of our schools under the domination of
the National Education association which is in truth a very powerful union.
Another union, the American Federation of Teachers, is opposed to such a department
-- as all of us should be. Is the government that administers the postal
service and Amtrak -- to say nothing of energy -- qualified to educate our
children?

If the conference committee hasn't acted before you hear this we should be
letting your elected representatives know you don't want it if you don't.

The House version of the bill is full of amendments. It now carries an
amendment forbidding federal funding of abortions. Another amendment would
require voluntary prayers be permitted in public schools. I've never thought
they should have been stopped. An amendment forbids racial or sexual quotas
in institutions of higher learning that accept federal subsidies. One also
forbids the new department from directing school busing for racial integration.
And another removes nurses, medical trainees and Indians from the new department's
jurisdiction.

Our best hope is that this measure with all its attached baggage will linger
with the conference committee until the end of this session of Congress. Letters
to representatives and senators can help bring this about.

I've said before on these broadcasts, the National Education association has
a long standing dream of a federal school system with everything from curriculum
to textbooks dictated by Washington. Of course the association has in mind that
Washington will look to it for guidance on setting policy. The N.E.A. has
contributed a half million dollars over the last five years to members of Congress
who have brought this dream to its present near reality.

A National Department of Education would extend its power to cover
independent and parochial schools. Indeed part of its dream is incorporation of
such schools in the public system. It would enlist thousands of employees and
have a budget some congressmen have said would top $10 billion.

This ugly blossom on the academic tree should be left to die of committee
neglect.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-A2

2026-03-28T14:08:35Z

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= Six Lies on Energy =

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=== Transcript ===
In a recent column in the New York Times, Yale Brazen, a professor of business
economics at the University of Chicago, argues that Americans are being subjected to
a propaganda barrage of startling dimensions on the subject of energy. At the
center of this propaganda are six lies about energy which are steering the public
and policymakers toward the wrong responses to our energy problems. The lies are
being told, Professor Brazen writes "in support of higher energy taxes and tighter
controls over voluntary market choices." Who is telling the lies? Professor
Brazen doesn't say. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.

The first falsehood is that the world will run out of oil in the 1980's. On
the contrary, a record 36-year supply of reserves is already staked out. Further
discoveries of suspected supplies could add another 50 years to those reserves.

The second lie, according to Professor Brazen, is that the United States
balance-of-payment deficit and the erosion of the dollar are caused by the rising
price and volume of imported oil. Not so, says Professor Brazen. If this were
true, then Germany and Japan should be in deeper trouble than we are, for they
import all of their crude oil and natural gas. Instead of blaming oil imports, we
should look to unprecedented peacetime budget deficits since 1973 as the major
culprit.

The third lie is that the long gasoline lines of 1974 were caused by the Arab
oil embargo. The real cause, Brazen explains, is that the Federal Energy office
(now the Department of Energy) - "overemphasized heating oil production at the
expense of gasoline, then under-allocated gasoline to metropolitan areas and
overallocated to rural areas."

The fourth falsehood is that we are increasingly vulnerable to an Arab oil
embargo. Today, there are more alternative sources of oil available than in 1974;
sources such as Nigeria, Mexico and the Canadian Arctic. Brazen says simply "we
are more vulnerable to Energy department blunders than a possible oil embargo."

The fifth lie is that American taxpayers must foot the bill for a 25 billion
dollar oil stockpile to reduce our vulnerability to an embargo. If we ended the
threat of mandatory reallocation, we would encourage greater private storage.

The final lie is that the government must plow billions of dollars into
developing new energy supplies before oil runs out. Given its record on such things
as Amtrak and the Postal service, the federal bureaucracy isn't exactly the first
place I'd turn to. Private investment on energy research and development is
proceeding at a respectable pace.

These six lies aren't the only falsehoods clouding our national energy debate.
But they are among the major reasons why, under current policies, we are getting
nowhere toward solving our serious energy problems.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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79-14-A1

2026-03-28T14:05:33Z

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= Vlasenko =

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=== Transcript ===
Yuri Vlasenko, a Soviet citizen, tried to leave the Soviet Union. Yuri
Vlasenko is dead.

On March 28th one of our embassy officials went out of the embassy in Moscow
and led Vlasenko past the ever-present KGB agents into the embassy. Once inside,
Yuri asked for an exit visa so that he could leave the Soviet Union. Upon being told
that we couldn't do that he revealed a homemade bomb and threatened to blow
himself up.

Our Ambassador tried to negotiate with him and then turned the matter over to
the Soviet authorities who don't negotiate in cases of this kind. They attacked
with tear gas and a sharpshooter who got off two shots before Yuri Vlasenko detonated
his bomb. He died there in the embassy where he had sought refuge.

This tragic story is by way of introduction to the plight of seven other
Soviet citizens who were in the American embassy the day Yuri Vlasenko died. They
had been there, living in the reception room since June 27th, 1978.

There are five members of one family, two of another. All are Christians,
members of the largest religious gr-up in Russia and all have other family members
outside the embassy who are undergoing the worst kind of persecution.

These seven made their way to Moscow from Siberia. They had tried in
every way to obtain, legally, exit visas from their own government. Finally in
desperation they had sought the counsel of our ambassador. The religious group to
which they belong is the largest in the Soviet Union. It is also the most. persecuted
and not one member has ever been allowed to emigrate from Russia.

These seven courageous and desperate people have a promise of sponsorship in
American from Reverend Cecil Williamson, Jr. of Selma, Alabama. Over the past 10
years they and other members of their families have been imprisoned, tortured, found
insane and some have died. Thousands of Americans, knowing of their plight, have
written to them but they haven't received the letters. Our ambassador has
ordered that nail to them must go through the Soviet postal service.

Shortly after the Vlavenko killing, efforts were made to persuade the seven
to leave the embassy. KGB cars were mysteriously waiting at the embassy entrance.
When they refused to give up their sanctuary they were moved to a 20-by-20 foot
room the Marine guards call the dungeon. There for a year now they have lived together
in that one room. They are denied embassy food, but embassy employees--acting as
Americans are supposed to act -- stand for hours in the endless lines and buy food
for them in the Russian stores.

Last June the ambassador grudgingly allowed American TV networks to interview
them but not to show the room in which they are kept confined. Then another
mystery - somehow the interviews were never shown to American audiences.

Détente is supposed to be a two-way street. Our wheat and technology can get
into Russia - why can't the Vlasenko and Chernogorsk families get out?

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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* [[wikipedia:Siberian_Seven|Siberian Seven]]
* [https://www.loc.gov/law/find/hearings/pdf/00139298214.pdf 1981 Congressional Committee documents]
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-61
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-45
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-403
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-01-B7|Miscellaneous III]]
| 79-01-B7
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-01-B8|South Africa]]
| 79-01-B8
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-189
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-A1|Phone]]
| <SPAN ID="79-02">79-02</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-316
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-A2|OPEC]]
| 79-02-A2
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|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-321
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-A3|Federal Trade Commission]]
| 79-02-A3
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-408
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-A4|The Official Rules]]
| 79-02-A4
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-A5|Anti-Poverty Abuses I]]
| 79-02-A5
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-A6|Anti-Poverty Abuses II]]
| 79-02-A6
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-A7|Wind Energy in Denmark]]
| 79-02-A7
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-B1|Counterintelligence]]
| 79-02-B1
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-409
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-B2|Australia I]]
| 79-02-B2
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-410
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-B3|Australia II]]
| 79-02-B3
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-412
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-B4|Peace Corps]]
| 79-02-B4
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-413
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-B5|A Policeman]]
| 79-02-B5
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| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-414, [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-41
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-5:12
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-B6|Miscellaneous 1]]
| 79-02-B6
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-B7|Miscellaneous 2]]
| 79-02-B7
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-02-B8|Regulations]]
| 79-02-B8
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-416
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-A1|Proposition 13 and the Post Commission I]]
| <SPAN ID="79-03">79-03</SPAN>-A1
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-A2|Proposition 13 and the Post Commission II]]
| 79-03-A2
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-A3|Deregulation]]
| 79-03-A3
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-A4|Dishonest Environmentalists]]
| 79-03-A4
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-A5|Fish]]
| 79-03-A5
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-290
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-A6|Constitutional Amendment]]
| 79-03-A6
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-284
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-A7|Pot]]
| 79-03-A7
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-417
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-B1|Saying "No" [Part] I]]
| 79-03-B1
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-B2|Saying "No" [Part] II]]
| 79-03-B2
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-B3|Conspiracy]]
| 79-03-B3
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-234
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-5:13
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-B4|Lawrence Welk]]
| 79-03-B4
|
|
|Yes
|
[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-418, [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-80
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-B5|Income Tax]]
| 79-03-B5
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-280
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-5:14
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-B6|Hamburgers]]
| 79-03-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-420
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-B7|Long Walk]]
| 79-03-B7
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-421, [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-43
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-5:15
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-03-B8|Miscellaneous]]
| 79-03-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-013-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-A1|Nancy]]</SPAN> (NR)
| <SPAN ID="79-04">79-04</SPAN>-A1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-355
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-5:16
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-A2|Lettuce Strike]]
| 79-04-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-014-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-A3|Taiwan's Future]]
| 79-04-A3
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-72
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-A4|POW]]
| 79-04-A4
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-422
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-A5|Cuba]]
| 79-04-A5
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-158
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-A6|The 100 Club]]
| 79-04-A6
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-424
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-A7|CIA]]
| 79-04-A7
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-014-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-B1|Miscellaneous]]
| 79-04-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-014-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-B2|Inflation]]
| 79-04-B2
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-425
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-B3|Human Rights]]
| 79-04-B3
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-426
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-1:20
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-B4|Comparisons]]
| 79-04-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-229
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-B5|Nuclear Power I]]
| 79-04-B5
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-014-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-B6|Nuclear Power II]]
| 79-04-B6
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-428
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-B7|Higher Standard of Living]]
| 79-04-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-014-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-04-B8|Student Economists]]
| 79-04-B8
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-014-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-A1|Panama]]
| <SPAN ID="79-05">79-05</SPAN>-A1
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-211
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-A2|Small Business I]]
| 79-05-A2
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-429
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-A3|Small Business II]]
| 79-05-A3
|
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|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-A4|Scared Straight]]
| 79-05-A4
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-A5|Palestine]]
| 79-05-A5
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|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-215
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-A6|Miscellaneous]]
| 79-05-A6
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|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-A7|Agriculture]]
| 79-05-A7
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|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-304
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-B1|Rhodesia]]
| 79-05-B1
|
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|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-431
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-B2|District of Columbia]]
| 79-05-B2
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-432
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-B3|Miscellaneous II]]
| 79-05-B3
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-B4|Rural Renaissance]]
| 79-05-B4
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-B5|Washington Weather]]
| 79-05-B5
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-433
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-B6|Salt II Part I]]
| 79-05-B6
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-88
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-B7|Salt II Part II]]
| 79-05-B7
|
|
|
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-89
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-05-B8|Miscellaneous III]]
| 79-05-B8
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-A1|New England Energy Barriers]]
| <SPAN ID="79-06">79-06</SPAN>-A1
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-A2|Land Use: The California Precedent]]
| 79-06-A2
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-A3|The Real Impact of Inflation]]
| 79-06-A3
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-A4|Real Estate Signs]]
| 79-06-A4
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-A5|Jonestown]]
| 79-06-A5
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-434
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-A6|David and Goliath]]
| 79-06-A6
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-A7|Schools]]
| 79-06-A7
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-352
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-B1|Budget]]
| 79-06-B1
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-285
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-B2|Food Stamps]]
| 79-06-B2
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-B3|Bilingual Education I]]
| 79-06-B3
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-436
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-B4|Bilingual Education II]]
| 79-06-B4
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-346
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-B5|Regulations Go to College]]
| 79-06-B5
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-360
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-B6|The Salcido Family]]
| 79-06-B6
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-437
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-B7|Miscellaneous]]
| 79-06-B7
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-06-B8|Free Enterprise]]
| 79-06-B8
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-228
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-A1|T.K.E.]]
| <SPAN ID="79-07">79-07</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-413
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-A2|Three Mile Island I]]
| 79-07-A2
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-438
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-A3|Three Mile Island II]]
| 79-07-A3
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-440
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-A4|Whistle Blowers; Poverty's Causes]]
| 79-07-A4
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-A5|Parable of the Talents Updated]]
| 79-07-A5
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-A6|McCarthy]]
| 79-07-A6
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-A7|Miscellaneous]]
| 79-07-A7
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-B1|Grove City College]]
| 79-07-B1
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-B2|I'm Only 17]]
| 79-07-B2
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-441
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-B3|Oil]]
| 79-07-B3
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-442
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-B4|Fluid Flame Burner]]
| 79-07-B4
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-B5|Disaster Area]]
| 79-07-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-444
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-B6|Sex Education]]
| 79-07-B6
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-347
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-5:17
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-B7|Graffiti]]
| 79-07-B7
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-07-B8|Banned Words]]
| 79-07-B8
|
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-A1|California Gas Shortage]]
| <SPAN ID="79-08">79-08</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-322
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-A2|Oil]]
| 79-08-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-445
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-A3|Sex Education]]
| 79-08-A3
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-446
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-A4|People's Park I]]
| 79-08-A4
|
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-448
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-A5|People's Park II]]
| 79-08-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-449
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-A6|Free Trade vs Protectionism]]
| 79-08-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-A7|Political Bestiary]]
| 79-08-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-B1|Marijuana]]
| 79-08-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-450
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-B2|The Delaney Amendment]]
| 79-08-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-B3|Miscellaneous I]]
| 79-08-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-104
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-B4|Miscellaneous II]]
| 79-08-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-46
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-B5|Investment Lag]]
| 79-08-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-B6|Crime]]
| 79-08-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-451
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-B7|Vietnam War]]
| 79-08-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-453, [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_Stories_His_Own_Hand|SihoH]]-57
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-08-B8|Operation Get Smart]]
| 79-08-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-A1|John Wayne]]
| <SPAN ID="79-09">79-09</SPAN>-A1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-412
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-5:18
| Yes
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-A2|Double Standard]]
| 79-09-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-A3|The Pope in Poland]]
| 79-09-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-174
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-A4|Nuclear Power]]
| 79-09-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-454
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-A5|Oil Profits]]
| 79-09-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-A6|Miscellaneous]]
| 79-09-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-A7|Money]]
| 79-09-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-261
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-B1|A Green Lawn]]
| 79-09-B1
|
| Yes
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-015-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-5:19
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-B2|Bukovsky]]
| 79-09-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-149
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-B3|Molecules]]
| 79-09-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-455
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-B4|A Tale of Two Countries]]
| 79-09-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-176
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-B5|Joan Baez I]]
| 79-09-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-456
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-B6|Joan Baez II]]
| 79-09-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-458
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-B7|The Family]]
| 79-09-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-375
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-09-B8|Corruption]]
| 79-09-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-459
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-A1|Busing Amendment]]
| <SPAN ID="79-10">79-10</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-A2|Sen. Jackson on SALT II]]
| 79-10-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-A3|Soviet Trade]]
| 79-10-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-73
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-A4|Trains]]
| 79-10-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-306
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-A5|Nigeria]]
| 79-10-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-16
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-A6|Assembly Line Medicine I]]
| 79-10-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-460
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-A7|Assembly Line Medicine II]]
| 79-10-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-368
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-B1|Namibia I]]
| 79-10-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-190
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-B2|Namibia II]]
| 79-10-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-192
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-B3|The MSHA Test]]
| 79-10-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-B4|Free Speech for Business?]]
| 79-10-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-461
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-B5|Energy-Saving Computer]]
| 79-10-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-B6|Project Match]]
| 79-10-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-B7|Miscellaneous]]
| 79-10-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-10-B8|Elementary Energy Lessons]]
| 79-10-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-A1|Congressional Promises and Performance]]
| <SPAN ID="79-11">79-11</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-A2|Income Tax Indexation]]
| 79-11-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-A3|Chile]]
| 79-11-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-142
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-A4|International Year of the Child]]
| 79-11-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-A5|Tax Expenditures]]
| 79-11-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-283
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-A6|Another Side of the U.N.]]
| 79-11-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-A7|A Different Watergate Story]]
| 79-11-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-B1|Miscellaneous I]]
| 79-11-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-B2|Neoconservatives]]
| 79-11-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-B3|Common Sense from a Neighbor]]
| 79-11-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-B4|America]]
| 79-11-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-462
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-B5|Miscellaneous II]]
| 79-11-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-B6|Free Speech]]
| 79-11-B6
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-464
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-B7|Showcase U.S.A.]]
| 79-11-B7
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-465
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-11-B8|Miscellaneous III]]
| 79-11-B8
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-466
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-A1|What to Expect from the Soviet Succession]]
| <SPAN ID="79-12">79-12</SPAN>-A1
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-A2|Thank You, Chairman Brezhnev]]
| 79-12-A2
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-A3|Better Representation for Skilled Tradesmen]]
| 79-12-A3
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-A4|Government Housings]]
| 79-12-A4
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-A5|Alaskan Anger]]
| 79-12-A5
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-A6|Waiting in Line]]
| 79-12-A6
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-A7|Citizen vs Chicago Transit Authority]]
| 79-12-A7
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-B1|Tax Revolt Going Strong]]
| 79-12-B1
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-B2|The Magic Money Machine]]
| 79-12-B2
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-467
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-B3|Administration Report Clears Oil Companies]]
| 79-12-B3
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-B4|Marijuana]]
| 79-12-B4
|
|
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-396
|
|
|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-B5|Voting Records]]
| 79-12-B5
|
|
| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
|
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|- style="height: 20px"
| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-B6|Power]]
| 79-12-B6
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-469
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-B7|Food Stamps]]
| 79-12-B7
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| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-470
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-12-B8|Living Dangerously Sometimes]]
| 79-12-B8
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| Yes
| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-016-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-13-A1|Defense I]]
| <SPAN ID="79-13">79-13</SPAN>-A1
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-105
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-13-A2|Defense II]]
| 79-13-A2
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-107
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-13-A3|Defense III]]
| 79-13-A3
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-108
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-13-A4|Defense IV]]
| 79-13-A4
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-119
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-13-A5|Talking Back]]
| 79-13-A5
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-471
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| 79-13-A6
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-13-A7|Ships]]
| 79-13-A7
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-472
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-13-B1|Salt II]]
| 79-13-B1
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-62
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-13-B2|Miscellaneous II]]
| 79-13-B2
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| 79-13-B5
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| 79-13-B6
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| 79-13-B7
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| 79-13-B8
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-A1|Vlasenko]]
| <SPAN ID="79-14">79-14</SPAN>-A1
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-177
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-A2|Six Lies on Energy]]
| 79-14-A2
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| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-017-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-A3|Department of Education]]
| 79-14-A3
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-473
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-A4|Salt II]]
| 79-14-A4
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-90
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-A5|Hollywood East]]
| 79-14-A5
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-475
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-A6|Defectors]]
| 79-14-A6
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-476
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-A7|In Defense of Success]]
| 79-14-A7
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| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-017-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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| 79-14-B1
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-477
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| 79-14-B2
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-478
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| 79-14-B3
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| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-017-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-B4|Red Tape]]
| 79-14-B4
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-480
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-B5|Radioactivity]]
| 79-14-B5
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-481
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-B6|The Golden Fleece]]
| 79-14-B6
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-482
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-B7|Gadgets]]
| 79-14-B7
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| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-017-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-14-B8|Land]]
| 79-14-B8
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV]]-483
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-15-1|Cuba Overseas]]
| <SPAN ID="79-15">79-15-1</SPAN>
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| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-017-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-15-2|Cuban Conditions]]
| 79-15-2
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| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-017-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-15-3|Israel I]]
| 79-15-3
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| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-017-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-15-4|Israel II]]
| 79-15-4
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| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-017-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-15-5|Salt]]
| 79-15-5
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| [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-017-2024.pdf RL.org PDF]
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| <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 120%">[[79-15-6|Health Care]]
| 79-15-6
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| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-369
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| 79-15-7
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| Yes
| Yes
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH]]-416
| [[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Voice|RihoV]]-5:21
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2026-03-28T13:54:59Z

Reagan admin:

[[Category:Radio Episodes]]
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= Living Dangerously Sometimes =

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=== Transcript ===
Would you pay $200 for possible protection from a cause of death which kills
one out of every 7,000 Americans each year? I'm talking about automobile accidents.
The federal government has decided that you will. It has ordered American automakers
to include airbags as standard safety equipment on all new cars, beginning
in 1984. But polling research conducted by Gene Pokorny for "Public Opinion"
magazine indicates that the majority of Americans oppose airbags. The costs are not
worth the benefits.

We are faced with questions such as this every day. Recognizing that there
are risks inherent in modern living, Mr. Pokorny set out to discover just how much
risk Americans are willing to take in order to enjoy all the benefits of an industrialized
society. His findings are interesting.

Pokorny's first discovery is that the environmentalists have apparently left a
deep imprint on many Americans. You could say they have succeeded in scaring the
majority into believing that the dangers to a person's health and safety are greater
today than fifty years ago. They believe this despite clear advancements in medicine,
transportation and occupational safety, and longer life expectancies.

However, while a majority feel that environmental factors have placed their lives
in greater danger, an equally sizable majority believe that the benefits they receive
from modern life are equal to or greater than the risks.

And Americans are sharply divided over whose responsibility it is to reduce risks
such as pollution, travel hazards or a potentially harmful product. Forty percent say
that the government should play an active role in reducing these risks through regulation.
Of late, the federal government has certainly taken this forty percent up on
their belief. But forty-five percent say it is the responsibility of the individual--
not government--to make himself aware of potential hazards and to make intelligent
choices, balancing risks versus benefits.

Pokorny discovered that most Americans have a rule of thumb by which they determine
whether or not the government should take charge in reducing an environmental
risk. In cases such as the use of airbags or saccharin, most Americans believe that
the federal government has no business making consumer choices for them. But Americans
are more likely to accept some kind of government watch-dog role in controlling
potential hazards over which the individual has less control--for example, air
pollution.

Pokorny found that the great majority of Americans look at life realistically:
seventy-two percent believe that no matter what we do, it is just not possible to
create a society without risk. But more interestingly, even if it were possible,
about forty percent say that they wouldn't want to live in a risk-free society anyway.
The costs would be too great in comfort and personal freedom. A society without risks
would most likely be one without opportunities, too.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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