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= Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | = 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/> | 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.) | (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 | 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, IMDB and the 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 == | == 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 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 | 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. | ||
California, Ronald Reagan. | |||
''(Applause)'' | |||
Nice to see you. | Nice to see you. | ||
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Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment. | Reagan: Nice to be here John. Nice of you to have me here after a little more than two months unemployment. | ||
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 | 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. | |||
highlight in office as you look back on it. | |||
well uh I'll start with the biggest highlight. the first of all was proving that some | well uh I'll start with the biggest highlight. the first of all was proving that some | ||
Revision as of 01:28, 21 March 2026
Ronald Reagan's Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
On December 24, 2024, Elon Musk 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.
(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 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, IMDB and the 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.
