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Shortly after leaving the governorship of California, Reagan was approached to do radio, 3-4 minutes per day, 5 days per week. He recorded these shows from 1975 until 1979, with a break of roughly 9 months in 1976 while he challenged President Gerald Ford for nomination as the Republican candidate for President in the 1976 election.
Early on in their broadcast history, they were called "Viewpoint with Ronald Reagan" but later called the "Reagan Radio Commentary".
Several hundred of the commentaries were produced during the time, ranging in topics from the aftermath of the
Vietnam War to the "
Modern Little Red Hen."
A selection of these commentaries can be heard in the audiobook "
Reagan In His Own Voice" and can be read in "
Reagan In His Own Hand." Reagan's notes and records of the commentaries can be found at the Stanford's Hoover Institute.
November 2018: Your humble administrator has begun further investigation of the Reagan Radio Commentaries and has begun slowly but surely purchasing MP3s of the recordings available from the Hoover Institute. Descriptions of the broadcasts will be made available as they they are listened to.