And we've just had announced that the dollar of 1939 will now purchase 45 cents in its total value.Īs for the peace that we would preserve, I wonder who among us would like to approach the wife or mother whose husband or son has died in South Vietnam and ask them if they think this is a peace that should be maintained indefinitely. Foreign dollar claims are 27.3 billion dollars. We have 15 billion dollars in gold in our treasury we don't own an ounce. We've raised our debt limit three times in the last twelve months, and now our national debt is one and a half times bigger than all the combined debts of all the nations of the world. We haven't balanced our budget 28 out of the last 34 years. Today, 37 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector's share, and yet our government continues to spend 17 million dollars a day more than the government takes in. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. The line has been used, "We've never had it so good."īut I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn't something on which we can base our hopes for the future. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own words and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn't been provided with a script. Transcript of "A Time for Choosing," delivered on national television on October 27, 1964 You may watch the speech on our YouTube channel. He won two terms, and eventually won the Presidency. He agreed in 1966 to run for Governor of California. The Republican Party took note and they targeted Reagan as a candidate from that point forward. Donations to the Republican party and candidates increased dramatically. The speech was aired on Octoand it was electrifying. "The Speech" was delivered in various forms and to different audiences as each word was honed, measured and memorized.ĭuring the 1964 Presidential campaign, Republican party officials in California, who knew Reagan's powerful message and delivery, asked him to film a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater. This continued and intensified during his service as the General Electric spokesperson while hosting their sponsored television series. He traveled across the country meeting Lions Clubs, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce and any other civic-minded local groups. Ronald Reagan began a long side-career of public speaking as his acting career closed out. Today we call it, "A Time for Choosing," and it was a pivotal turning point in Ronald Reagan's life. Baxter, his Welsh terrier, has retired to the south coast."The Speech" is what Ronald Reagan called it. Richard lives in Little Venice with Rebecca, his partner, and Ollie, their son. It is the story of an angst-ridden art dealer plagued by a dysfunctional Mum, a bitchy ex-wife and a mute parrot, and his Odyssey around the experimental therapy centres of London and Somerset. For 2009, he was awarded a grant from Arts Council England (Literature) for long fiction, which has culminated in his novel Sunrise with Sea Monsters (due for publication in 2012, Canonbury Press). His literary fiction has appeared in the Edward Moore Review, Libra and MIR6. His publications include Living with Hepatitis C (1997) and Coping Successfully with Hepatitis C (2000). He famously appeared on a chat show hosted by Julie Goodyear, barmaid at the Rovers Return, Coronation Street, for Granada Television, in the company of a libertine antiques trader and a babbling soothsayer from Kentish Town. After leaving university these matters continued to plague him until he became the world lay expert on Hepatitis C, performing PR interviews on behalf of the British Liver Trust on BBC News at 6, Radio London, the Australian Broadcasting Company, Sydney Radio and so on. At the time, he was particularly keen to find out if he really existed, and, if he did, how he could appease his over-zealous conscience. Richard English is a British Academy Award-winning researcher who graduated from King’s College London with a first in philosophy in 1992 and completed an MPhil at Birkbeck College, specialising in psychoanalytic theory and moral philosophy.
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