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Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine

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	During the late 1950s and early 1960s the American Medical Association ran a campaign against the Democratic plans to create a medical insurance program for ~~anyone~~ in the [[Social Security]] program. It was called [[wikipedia:Operation Coffee Cup\|Operation Coffee Cup]]. In 1961, one of their tools for getting information out to the people was this speech, distributed via [[wikipedia:LP_record\|LP]].		During the late 1950s and early 1960s the American Medical Association ran a campaign against the Democratic Party plans to create a medical insurance program for everyone in the [[Social Security]] program. It was called [[wikipedia:Operation Coffee Cup\|Operation Coffee Cup]]. In 1961, one of their tools for getting information out to the people was this speech, distributed via [[wikipedia:LP_record\|LP]].

	After purchasing and reviewing the materials, I learned that Reagan was not the only person to record audio. There is a second audio clip. Since the materials included text of both, it will be quite easy to provide an [[~~OperationCoffeeCup2ndTranscript~~\|additional transcript]].		After purchasing and reviewing the materials, I learned that Reagan was not the only person to record audio. There is a second audio clip. Since the materials included text of both, it will be quite easy to provide an [[Socialized_Medicine_and_You\|additional transcript]].

	Most of the content of the speech is very similar to that of the '[[Encroaching Control]]' speech, also from 1961.		Most of the content of the speech is very similar to that of the '[[Encroaching Control]]' speech, also from 1961.

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== SOCIALIZED MEDICINE AND YOU ==

Mr. Reagan's concern is very real and all of us who are equally concerned should follow his advice. You may wonder just what sort of letter to write your congressman.

The answer is, almost any letter -- so long as it reflects your thinking, your convictions, your feelings...and so long as you use your own words, and put them in your own hand-writing.

Perhaps a little background on the subject of socialized medicine will prove helpful to you.

To begin with, socialized medicine simply means compulsory national health insurance; medicine controlled and administered by the Federal Government financed through compulsory taxation.

For many years an attempt has been made to socialize the practice of medicine through the Social Security tax mechanism. The American people and Congress have rejected overwhelmingly these attempts.

Last year Representative Forand attempted to establish, the principle of socialized medicine by applying it only to the elderly -- at first. He, and others like him, counted on the concern we all feel for those of the aged in need of help.

The Forand Bill failed. But this year, another congressman has stepped forward to lead the forces of socialized medicine -- Representative King of California. It is his measure -- H.R. 4222, or the King Bill, that now threatens the free practice of medicine.

The supporters of the King Bill contend that most of the aged are in poor health and that most of the aged are. financially unable to pay for their own medical care.

The fact is that most of the aged are in reasonably good health. And most are in reasonably good shape financially. Surveys prove both points.

However, I'm sure that we all recognize that -- some of our older people are in poor health; and some can't afford to pay for the health care they need.

That's why the doctors of America strongly supported the legislation passed during the last congress -- the so-called Kerr-Mills Law. They felt -- and have always felt -- that people who need medical help should get it, but that tax dollars should not be used to pay the medical and hospital bills of those who are perfectly able to pay their own.

Physicians favored the Kerr-Mills Law because it would help those of the elderly who need help, help them quickly and effectively, and do so without wasting either the taxpayers money, or destroying the basic American freedoms involved in our system of medical practice.

The Kerr-Mills Law is now being put into effect. It permits the individual states to guarantee to every American over 65 who needs help, the health care he requires. It benefits all older persons unable to meet the cost of a serious or chronic illness. It specifically allows the individual states to run their own programs - it provides for local administration and local determination of need and is financed from both the federal and state general tax funds.

Without even giving this program a chance to prove what can do, the King Bill, H.R. 4222, was introduced. Here's how
it would work:
The Federal Government would buy a limited amount of hospitalization, nursing home care, home health services, and outpatient hospital diagnostic services for all eligible to receive Social Security retirement payments regardless of their financial means. The number of days the beneficiary could receive these services is limited. And, the patient would be required to pay $10.00 a day for the first nine days spent in a hospital; and $20.00 for each complete diagnostic study made.

Physicians' services in the fields of radiology, pathology, physiatry, and anesthesiology would be included, plus the services of interns and residents and those serving the out- patient clinics. There is little doubt but what the program would soon be expanded to include all physician services as well as to cover the entire population -- thus completely socializing medicine in the United States.

The Federal Government would set up the rules and regulations under which the program would operate. And everyone who pays Social Security taxes would help pay the bill -- because taxes would be raised beyond the nine per cent of taxable payroll already scheduled in the years ahead.

I am sure many of you are wondering why there is any objection to using the Social Security System to finance medical care for the aged.

Well, first of all, it is a misnomer to think of Social Security as being insurance.

In the Nestor vs. Flemming case heard before the Supreme Court in 1959 the Department of Justice in its brief said:
"The OASI program is in no sense a federally administered insurance program under which each worker pays premiums over the years and acquires at retirement an indefeasible right to receive...a fixed monthly benefit...The contributions exacted are a tax."

Many people also have the mistaken impression that Social Security benefits are paid out of accumulated reserves similar to private insurance programs, when in truth the program is financed almost entirely on a pay-as-you-go basis with the benefits paid out of current income. Pay-as-you-go means that the government raises through current taxes just enough money to pay the cost of the benefits currently due. No one prepays his own benefits. Today's taxpayers pay for
today's beneficiaries.

The acceptance of the King Bill would actually mean that our children and grandchildren will be asked to pay ever increasing Social Security taxes to finance the medical care needs of the previous generations.
With growing families, young people have enough difficulty trying to make ends meet without assuming the additional obligation of paying higher taxes to pay for the medical care needs of all over 65, many of whom are in better financial shape than those paying the tax.

This is the choice we are faced with. On the one hand, we can help those who need help, while preserving the right of the self-reliant to finance their own care or we can legislate a compulsory national health scheme for the aged -- regardless of whether they need it or not.

To put this choice in even sharper focus, Americans are being asked to choose between a system of medicine practiced in freedom; and a system of socialized medicine for the elderly which will be expanded into socialized medicine for every man, woman, and child in the United States.

Your letter will help determine the outcome of this struggle. Remember what Ronald Reagan said:
"Write those letters now; call your friends and tell them to write them. If you don't, this program, I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow. And behind it will come other Federal programs that will invade
every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until one day, as Norman Thomas said, we will awake to find that we have socialism. And if you don't do this and if I don't do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free."

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Created page with "== SOCIALIZED MEDICINE AND YOU == Mr. Reagan's concern is very real and all of us who are equally concerned should follow his advice. You may wonder just what sort of letter to write your congressman. The answer is, almost any letter -- so long as it reflects your thinking, your convictions, your feelings...and so long as you use your own words, and put them in your own hand-writing. Perhaps a little background on the subject of socialized medicine will prove helpful..."

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	During the late 1950s and early 1960s the American Medical Association ran a campaign against the Democratic plans to create a medical insurance program for anyone in the [[Social Security]] program. It was called [[wikipedia:Operation Coffee Cup\|Operation Coffee Cup]]. In 1961, one of their tools for getting information out to the people was this speech, distributed via [[wikipedia:LP_record\|LP]].		During the late 1950s and early 1960s the American Medical Association ran a campaign against the Democratic plans to create a medical insurance program for anyone in the [[Social Security]] program. It was called [[wikipedia:Operation Coffee Cup\|Operation Coffee Cup]]. In 1961, one of their tools for getting information out to the people was this speech, distributed via [[wikipedia:LP_record\|LP]].

	After purchasing and reviewing the materials, I learned that Reagan was not the only person to record audio. There is a second audio clip. ~~I'll work on getting a transcription~~ of it.		After purchasing and reviewing the materials, I learned that Reagan was not the only person to record audio. There is a second audio clip. Since the materials included text of both, it will be quite easy to provide an [[OperationCoffeeCup2ndTranscript\|additional transcript]].

	Most of the content of the speech is very similar to that of the '[[Encroaching Control]]' speech, also from 1961.		Most of the content of the speech is very similar to that of the '[[Encroaching Control]]' speech, also from 1961.
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	[[Media:AMA House Senate.pdf\|List of current Representatives and Senators]]		[[Media:AMA House Senate.pdf\|List of current Representatives and Senators]]

			[[Media:Medical_Legislative_Conference_AMA_1961.pdf\|Report from the Medical Legislative Conference of the AMA, 1961]]

	== Full Speech Text ==		== Full Speech Text ==

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Reagan admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:13:52 GMT

Reagan admin uploaded File:Medical Legislative Conference AMA 1961.pdf A Report from the Medical Legislative Conference of the American Medical Association from 1961 in which the King Bill (discussed in Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine) is mentioned heavily.

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A Report from the Medical Legislative Conference of the American Medical Association from 1961 in which the King Bill (discussed in Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine) is mentioned heavily.

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine

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	During the late 1950s and early 1960s the American Medical Association ran a campaign against the Democratic plans to create a medical insurance program for anyone in the [[Social Security]] program. It was called [[wikipedia:Operation Coffee Cup\|Operation Coffee Cup]]. In 1961, one of their tools for getting information out to the people was this speech, distributed via [[wikipedia:LP_record\|LP]].		During the late 1950s and early 1960s the American Medical Association ran a campaign against the Democratic plans to create a medical insurance program for anyone in the [[Social Security]] program. It was called [[wikipedia:Operation Coffee Cup\|Operation Coffee Cup]]. In 1961, one of their tools for getting information out to the people was this speech, distributed via [[wikipedia:LP_record\|LP]].

	~~The creator~~ and ~~editor of this wiki has just acquired one of these LPs~~, ~~which also includes~~ a ~~number of letters, action items, bill summaries, etc~~. I ~~am hoping to be able to include those materials in this wiki in the near future~~.		After purchasing and reviewing the materials, I learned that Reagan was not the only person to record audio. There is a second audio clip. I'll work on getting a transcription of it.

	Most of the content of the speech is very similar to that of the '[[Encroaching Control]]' speech, also from 1961.		Most of the content of the speech is very similar to that of the '[[Encroaching Control]]' speech, also from 1961.

	== Materials ==		== Materials ==
	[[Media:Operation Coffecup LP.pdf\|~~See the~~ Sleeve and Record]]		[[Media:Operation Coffecup LP.pdf\|Sleeve and Record]]

	[[Media:AMA WomensAuxLetter.pdf\|Enclosed Letter to the Women's Auxillary of the AMA]]		[[Media:AMA WomensAuxLetter.pdf\|Enclosed Letter to the Women's Auxillary of the AMA]]

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	Most of the content of the speech is very similar to that of the '[[Encroaching Control]]' speech, also from 1961.		Most of the content of the speech is very similar to that of the '[[Encroaching Control]]' speech, also from 1961.

			== Materials ==
			[[Media:Operation Coffecup LP.pdf\|See the Sleeve and Record]]

			[[Media:AMA WomensAuxLetter.pdf\|Enclosed Letter to the Women's Auxillary of the AMA]]

			[[Media:AMA House Senate.pdf\|List of current Representatives and Senators]]

	== Full Speech Text ==		== Full Speech Text ==

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Reagan admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:28:44 GMT

Reagan admin uploaded File:AMA House Senate.pdf The American Medical Association included this list of current House and Senate members in its Operation Coffeecup packet of materials so that people knew who to write to.

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The American Medical Association included this list of current House and Senate members in its Operation Coffeecup packet of materials so that people knew who to write to.

File:AMA WomensAuxLetter.pdf

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Reagan admin uploaded File:AMA WomensAuxLetter.pdf A letter to the American Medical Association's Women's Auxillary, regarding Operation Coffeecup

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== Summary ==
A letter to the American Medical Association's Women's Auxillary, regarding Operation Coffeecup

File:Rendezvous with Destiny LP.pdf

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Reagan admin uploaded File:Rendezvous with Destiny LP.pdf Images of the Rendzevous with Destiny LP cover and record

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Images of the Rendzevous with Destiny LP cover and record

Rendezvous with Destiny LP

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Created page with "Rendezvous with Destiny LP is a record created from the live broadcast. Due to limitations of the record format, the audio was edited down. Below is a transcript of the full speech (also found on A Time For Choosing) while the pieces of text removed will be blacked out or otherwise obscured. == Full Text == Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn't been provided with a..."

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Rendezvous with Destiny LP is a record created from the live broadcast. Due to limitations of the record format, the audio was edited down. Below is a transcript of the full speech (also found on [[A Time For Choosing]]) while the pieces of text removed will be blacked out or otherwise obscured.

== Full Text ==

Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn't been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks.

I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used "We've never had it so good."

But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn't something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector's share, and yet our government continues to spend $17 million a day more than the government takes in. We haven't [[Balanced Budget|balanced our budget]] 28 out of the last 34 years. We have 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 in the world. We have [[gold|$15 billion in gold in our treasury]] — we don't own an ounce. Foreign dollar claims are $27.3 billion, and we have just had announced that the dollar of 1939 will now purchase [[inflation|45 cents in its total value]].

As 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 [[Vietnam War|South Vietnam]] and ask them if they think this is a peace that should be maintained indefinitely. Do they mean peace, or do they mean we just want to be left in peace? There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in doing so lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well, I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.

Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from [[Fidel Castro|Castro]], and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to." In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

In this vote-harvesting time, they use terms like the "[[Great Society]]," or as we were told a few days ago by the President, we must accept a "greater government activity in the affairs of the people." But they have been a little more explicit in the past and among themselves — and all of the things that I now will quote have appeared in print. These are not Republican accusations. For example, they have voices that say "the [[Cold War]] will end through acceptance of a not undemocratic socialism." Another voice says that the profit motive has become outmoded, it must be replaced by the incentives of the welfare state; or our traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of the 20th century. [[J William Fulbright|Senator Fulbright]] has said at Stanford University that the [[Constitution]] is outmoded. He referred to the president as our moral teacher and our leader, and he said he is hobbled in his task by the restrictions in power imposed on him by this antiquated document. He must be freed so that he can do for us what he knows is best. And [[Joseph S Clark Jr|Senator Clark]] of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines [[liberalism]] as "meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government." Well, I for one resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me — the free man and woman of this country — as "the masses." This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, "the full power of centralized government" — this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy.

Now, we have no better example of this than the government's involvement in the farm economy over the last 30 years. Since 1955, the cost of this program has nearly doubled. One-fourth of farming in America is responsible for 85% of the farm surplus. Three-fourths of farming is out on the free market and has known a 21% increase in the per capita consumption of all its produce. You see, that one-fourth of farming is regulated and controlled by the federal government. In the last three years we have spent $43 in feed grain program for every bushel of corn we don't grow.

[[Hubert Humphrey|Senator Humphrey]] last week charged that [[Barry Goldwater]] as President would seek to eliminate farmers. He should do his homework a little better, because he will find out that we have had a decline of 5 million in the farm population under these government programs. He will also find that the Democratic administration has sought to get from Congress an extension of the farm program to include that three-fourths that is now free. He will find that they have also asked for the right to imprison farmers who wouldn't keep books as prescribed by the federal government. The Secretary of Agriculture asked for the right to seize farms through condemnation and resell them to other individuals. And contained in that same program was a provision that would have allowed the federal government to remove 2 million farmers from the soil.

At the same time, there has been an increase in the Department of Agriculture employees. There is now one for every 30 farms in the United States, and still they can't tell us how [https://time.com/archive/6807866/foreign-trade-the-66-shiploads/ 66 shiploads of grain headed for Austria] disappeared without a trace and [[Billie Sol Estes]] never left shore.

Every responsible farmer and farm organization has repeatedly asked the government to free the farm economy, but who are farmers to know what is best for them? The wheat farmers voted against a wheat program. The government passed it anyway. Now the price of bread goes up; the price of wheat to the farmer goes down.
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Meanwhile, back in the city, under urban renewal the assault on freedom carries on. Private property rights are so diluted that public interest is almost anything that a few government planners decide it should be. In a program that takes for the needy and gives to the greedy, we see such spectacles as in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], a million-and-a-half-dollar building completed only three years ago must be destroyed to make way for what government officials call a "[[Eminent Domain|more compatible use of the land]]." The President tells us he is now going to start building public housing units in the thousands where heretofore we have only built them in the hundreds. But [[Federal Housing Administration|FHA]] and the [[Veterans Administration]] tell us that they have 120,000 housing units they've taken back through mortgage foreclosures. For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. The latest is the [[Area Redevelopment Agency]]. They have just declared [[Rice County, Kansas]], a depressed area. [[Rice County, Kansas]], has two hundred oil wells, and the 14,000 people there have over $30 million on deposit in personal savings in their banks. When the government tells you you're depressed, lie down and be depressed.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So they are going to solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had the answer and they've had almost 30 years of it, shouldn't we expect government to almost read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn't they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help? The reduction in the need for public housing?

But the reverse is true. Each year the need grows greater, the program grows greater. We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet. But now we are told that 9.3 million families in this country are poverty-stricken on the basis of earning less than $3,000 a year. Welfare spending is 10 times greater than in the dark depths of the Depression. We are spending $45 billion on welfare. Now do a little arithmetic, and you will find that if we divided the $45 billion up equally among those 9 million poor families, we would be able to give each family $4,600 a year, and this added to their present income should eliminate poverty! Direct aid to the poor, however, is running only about $600 per family. It would seem that someplace there must be some overhead.

So now we declare "[[war on poverty]]," or "you, too, can be a [[Bobby Baker]]!" Now, do they honestly expect us to believe that if we add $1 billion to the $45 million we are spending...one more program to the 30-odd we have — and remember, this new program doesn't replace any, it just duplicates existing programs — do they believe that poverty is suddenly going to disappear by magic? Well, in all fairness I should explain that there is one part of the new program that isn't duplicated. This is the youth feature. We are now going to solve the dropout problem, juvenile delinquency, by reinstituting something like the old [[Civilian Conservation Corps|CCC camps]], and we are going to put our young people in camps, but again we do some arithmetic, and we find that we are going to spend each year just on room and board for each young person that we help $4,700 a year! [[Harvard|We can send them to Harvard for $2,700!]] Don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting that Harvard is the answer to juvenile delinquency.

But seriously, what are we doing to those we seek to help? Not too long ago, a judge called me here in Los Angeles. He told me of a young woman who had come before him for a divorce. She had six children, was pregnant with her seventh. Under his questioning, she revealed her husband was a laborer earning $250 a month. She wanted a divorce so that she could get an $80 raise. She is eligible for $330 a month in the [[Aid to Dependent Children Program]]. She got the idea from two women in her neighborhood who had already done that very thing.

Yet anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we are denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we are always "against" things, never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that [[Josh Billings|they know so much that isn't so]]. We are for a provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of old age, and to that end we have accepted [[Social Security]] as a step toward meeting the problem.

But we are against those entrusted with this program when they practice deception regarding its fiscal shortcomings, when they charge that any criticism of the program means that we want to end payments to those who depend on them for livelihood. [[Social Security|They have called it insurance to us in a hundred million pieces of literature]]. But then they appeared before the Supreme Court and they testified that it was a welfare program. They only use the term "insurance" to sell it to the people. And they said [[Social Security]] dues are a tax for the general use of the government, and the government has used that tax. There is no fund, because [[Robert Myers]], the actuarial head, appeared before a congressional committee and admitted that [[Social Security]] as of this moment is $298 billion in the hole. But he said there should be no cause for worry because as long as they have the power to tax, they could always take away from the people whatever they needed to bail them out of trouble! And they are doing just that.

A young man, 21 years of age, working at an average salary...his [[Social Security]] contribution would, in the open market, buy him an insurance policy that would guarantee $220 a month at age 65. The government promises $127. He could live it up until he is 31 and then take out a policy that would pay more than [[Social Security]]. Now, are we so lacking in business sense that we can't put this program on a sound basis so that people who do require those payments will find that they can get them when they are due...that the cupboard isn't bare? [[Barry Goldwater]] thinks we can.

At the same time, can't we introduce voluntary features that would permit a citizen who can do better on his own to be excused upon presentation of evidence that he had made provisions for the non-earning years? Should we allow a widow with children to work, and not lose the benefits supposedly paid for by her deceased husband? Shouldn't you and I be allowed to declare who our beneficiaries will be under these programs, which we cannot do? I think we are for telling our senior citizens that no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds. But I think we are against forcing all citizens, regardless of need, into a compulsory government program, especially when we have such examples, as announced last week, when France admitted that their Medicare program was now bankrupt. They've come to the end of the road.

In addition, was [[Barry Goldwater]] so irresponsible when he suggested that our government give up its program of deliberate planned inflation so that when you do get your [[Social Security]] pension, a dollar will buy a dollar's worth, and not 45 cents' worth?
I think we are for an [[United Nations|international organization]], where the nations of the world can seek peace. But I think we are against subordinating American interests to an organization that has become so structurally unsound that today you can muster a two-thirds vote on the floor of the General Assembly among the nations that represent less than 10 percent of the world's population. I think we are against the hypocrisy of assailing our allies because here and there they cling to a colony, while we engage in a conspiracy of silence and never open our mouths about the millions of people enslaved in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] colonies in the satellite nations.

I think we are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107. We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a $2 million yacht for [[Haile Selassie]]. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenyan government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity. In the last six years, [[gold|52 nations have bought $7 billion worth of our gold]], and all 52 are receiving foreign aid from this country.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this Earth. Federal employees number 2.5 million, and federal, state, and local, one out of six of the nation's work force is employed by the government. These proliferating bureaus with their thousands of regulations have cost us many of our constitutional safeguards. How many of us realize that today federal agents can invade a man's property without a warrant? They can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let alone a trial by jury, and they can seize and sell his property in auction to enforce the payment of that fine. In Chicot County, Arkansas, [[James Wier]] overplanted his rice allotment. The government obtained a $17,000 judgment, and a U.S. marshal sold his 950-acre farm at auction. The government said it was necessary as a warning to others to make the system work. Last February 19 at the University of Minnesota, [[Norman Thomas]], six-time candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said, "If [[Barry Goldwater]] became President, he would stop the advance of socialism in the United States." I think that's exactly what he will do.

As a former Democrat, I can tell you [[Norman Thomas]] isn't the only man who has drawn this parallel to socialism with the present administration. Back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, [[Al Smith]], the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his party was taking the part of [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]], [[Andrew Jackson|Jackson]], and [[Grover Cleveland|Cleveland]] down the road under the banners of [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]. And he walked away from his party, and he never returned to the day he died, because to this day, the leadership of that party has been taking that party, that honorable party, down the road in the image of the [[Labour Party|labor socialist party]] of England. Now it doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? Such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our [[Natural Rights|natural, inalienable rights]] are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. Our Democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate these issues. They want to make you and I believe that this is a contest between two men...that we are to choose just between two personalities.

Well, what of this man that they would destroy? And in destroying, they would destroy that which he represents, the ideas that you and I hold dear. Is he the brash and shallow and trigger-happy man they say he is? Well, I have been privileged to know him "when." I knew him long before he ever dreamed of trying for high office, and I can tell you personally I have never known a man in my life I believe so incapable of doing a dishonest or dishonorable thing.

This is a man who in his own business, before he entered politics, instituted a profit-sharing plan, before unions had ever thought of it. He put in health and medical insurance for all his employees. He took 50 percent of the profits before taxes and set up a retirement program, a pension plan for all his employees. He sent checks for life to an employee who was ill and couldn't work. He provided nursing care for the children of mothers who work in the stores. When Mexico was ravaged by floods from the Rio Grande, he climbed in his airplane and flew medicine and supplies down there.

An ex-GI told me how he met him. It was the week before Christmas during the [[Korean War]], and he was at the Los Angelos airport trying to get a ride home to Arizona for Christmas, and he said that there were a lot of servicemen there and no seats available on the planes. Then a voice came over the loudspeaker and said, "Any men in uniform wanting a ride to Arizona, go to runway such-and-such," and they went down there, and there was this fellow named [[Barry Goldwater]] sitting in his plane. Every day in the weeks before Christmas, all day long, he would load up the plane, fly to Arizona, fly them to their homes, then fly back over to get another load.

During the hectic split-second timing of a campaign, this is a man who took time out to sit beside an old friend who was dying of cancer. His campaign managers were understandably impatient, but he said, "There aren't many left who care what happens to her. I'd like her to know I care." This is a man who said to his 19-year-old son, "There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life upon that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start." This is not a man who could carelessly send other people's sons to war. And that is the issue of this campaign that makes all of the other problems I have discussed academic, unless we realize that we are in a war that must be won.

Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy "accommodation." And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple.
If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind the [[Iron Curtain]], "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters." [[Alexander Hamilton]] said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Let's set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace — and you can have it in the next second — surrender.

Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face — that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand — the ultimatum. And what then? When [[Nikita Khrushchev]] has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the [[Cold War]], and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one [[Kenneth Tynan|commentator]] put it, he would rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin — just in the face of this enemy? Or should [[Exodus|Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs]]? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the [[Battle of Concord|patriots at Concord Bridge]] have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of [[Barry Goldwater]]'s "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

We will keep in mind and remember that [[Barry Goldwater]] has faith in us. He has faith that you and I have the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions and determine our own destiny.

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

Foot-in-the-door legislation

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	<BLOCKQUOTE>''Get any part of a proposed government program enacted into law and then, with the principle of government participation in that field established, work particularly during each election year to expand that to the ultimate aim that one day government must become a big brother to us all. Traditionally, one of the methods first used in imposing statism on a people has been [[Medicare\|government paid medical care]].''</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>''Get any part of a proposed government program enacted into law and then, with the principle of government participation in that field established, work particularly during each election year to expand that to the ultimate aim that one day government must become a big brother to us all. Traditionally, one of the methods first used in imposing statism on a people has been [[Medicare\|government paid medical care]].''</BLOCKQUOTE>
	Reagan is telling us something of how big-government politicians operate. They may have large plans for sweeping legislation, but they are willing to put something small in place so that they can grow the size of that legislation later. This allegation is backed up by a recent quote from Senator [~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Tom_Harkin\|Tom Harkin], Democrat from Iowa regarding the passage of President [~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Barack_Obama\|Barack Obama's] sweeping health care legislation.		Reagan is telling us something of how big-government politicians operate. They may have large plans for sweeping legislation, but they are willing to put something small in place so that they can grow the size of that legislation later. This allegation is backed up by a recent quote from Senator [[wikipedia:Tom_Harkin\|Tom Harkin]], Democrat from Iowa regarding the passage of President [[wikipedia:Barack_Obama\|Barack Obama's]] sweeping [[wikipedia:Affordable_Care_Act\|health care legislation]].
	<BLOCKQUOTE>"What we are buying here is a modest home, not a mansion. What we are getting here is a starter home. It's got a good foundation: 30 million Americans are covered. It's got a good roof: A lot of protections from abuses by insurance companies. It's got a lot of nice stuff in there for prevention and wellness. But, we can build additions as we go along in the future. It is a starter home. Think about it in that way."</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>"What we are buying here is a modest home, not a mansion. What we are getting here is a starter home. It's got a good foundation: 30 million Americans are covered. It's got a good roof: A lot of protections from abuses by insurance companies. It's got a lot of nice stuff in there for prevention and wellness. But, we can build additions as we go along in the future. It is a starter home. Think about it in that way."</BLOCKQUOTE>
			There were also others that referred to the legislation as a "Trojan Horse" into a [[wikipedia:Single-payer_healthcare\|Single-Payer health insurance system]], similar to Britain's [[wikipedia:National_Health_Service\|National Health System]].

Fidel Castro

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	<BLOCKQUOTE>''Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to." In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.''</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>''Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to." In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.''</BLOCKQUOTE>

			Not mentioned much in speeches, Castro was more frequently mentioned during the [[Reagan_Radio_Commentaries\|Reagan Radio Commentaries]] between 1975 and 1979.

	== Source Links ==		== Source Links ==
	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Fidel_Castro Fidel Castro ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Fidel_Castro\|Fidel Castro]]

James Weir

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	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Agricultural_Adjustment_Act_of_1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Agricultural_Adjustment_Act_of_1938\|Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938]]

Federal Registry

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	<BLOCKQUOTE>''These proliferating bureaus with their thousands of regulations have cost us many of our constitutional safeguards. How many of us realize that today federal agents can invade a man's property without a warrant? They can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let alone a trial by jury, and they can seize and sell his property in auction to enforce the payment of that fine. In Chicot County, Arkansas, [[James Weir]] overplanted his rice allotment. The government obtained a $17,000 judgment, and a U.S. marshal sold his 950-acre farm at auction. The government said it was necessary as a warning to others to make the system work.''</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>''These proliferating bureaus with their thousands of regulations have cost us many of our constitutional safeguards. How many of us realize that today federal agents can invade a man's property without a warrant? They can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let alone a trial by jury, and they can seize and sell his property in auction to enforce the payment of that fine. In Chicot County, Arkansas, [[James Weir]] overplanted his rice allotment. The government obtained a $17,000 judgment, and a U.S. marshal sold his 950-acre farm at auction. The government said it was necessary as a warning to others to make the system work.''</BLOCKQUOTE>

	He would also mention these Constitutional violations in his [Reagan Radio Commentaries Radio Commentaries], specifically one entitled 'OSHA.'		He would also mention these Constitutional violations in his [[Reagan_Radio_Commentaries\|Reagan Radio Commentaries Radio Commentaries]], specifically one entitled '[[76-08-B7\|OSHA]].'

	==Source Links==		==Source Links==
	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Federal_Register Federal Register ~~(''Wikipedia'')~~]		[[wikipedia:Federal_Register\|Federal Register]]

Federal Housing Administration

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	The Federal Housing Administration is currently a part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It was created in 1934 by the National Housing Act of 1934. Its primary purpose is to insure the loans made by banks and other entities for the purpose of building or purchasing homes.		The Federal Housing Administration is currently a part of the [[wikipedia:United_States_Department_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development\|Department of Housing and Urban Development]] (HUD). It was created in 1934 by the [[wikipedia:National_Housing_Act_of_1934\|National Housing Act of 1934]]. Its primary purpose is to insure the loans made by banks and other entities for the purpose of building or purchasing homes.

	==Speech Relevance==		==Speech Relevance==
	Reagan spoke, in '[[A Time For Choosing]]' of the FHA as having control (along with the Veteran's Administration) of thousands of foreclosed homes:		Reagan spoke, in '[[A Time For Choosing]]' of the FHA as having control (along with the [[wikipedia:United_States_Department_of_Veterans_Affairs\|Veteran's Administration]]) of thousands of foreclosed homes:
	<BLOCKQUOTE>''The President tells us he is now going to start building public housing units in the thousands where heretofore we have only built them in the hundreds. But FHA and the [[Veterans Administration]] tell us that they have 120,000 housing units they've taken back through mortgage foreclosures.''</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>''The President tells us he is now going to start building public housing units in the thousands where heretofore we have only built them in the hundreds. But FHA and the [[Veterans Administration]] tell us that they have 120,000 housing units they've taken back through mortgage foreclosures.''</BLOCKQUOTE>
	His point being that there was no need to construct new public housing when the government already owned plenty of housing.		His point being that there was no need to construct new public housing when the government already owned plenty of housing.

	==Source Links==		==Source Links==
	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Federal_Housing_Administration Federal Housing Administration ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Federal_Housing_Administration\|Federal Housing Administration]]

Desegregation

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	Desegregation (also called integration) is a system whereby two groups which had previously been kept apart are brought back together. The most commonly thought of example (and the one Reagan was speaking of) was the desegregation of schools after the Brown Vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case decision of 1954. Following a 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy vs. Ferguson, schools and other facilities could be legally segregated if they were equal. During Brown vs. Board of Education, the court decided that separate facilities were inherently unequal and ordered that schools be reintegrated.		Desegregation (also called integration) is a system whereby two groups which had previously been kept apart are brought back together. The most commonly thought of example (and the one Reagan was speaking of) was the desegregation of schools after the [[wikipedia:Brown_v._Board_of_Education\|Brown v. Board of Education]] Supreme Court case decision of 1954. Following a 1896 Supreme Court case, [[wikipedia:Plessy_v._Ferguson\|Plessy vs. Ferguson]], schools and other facilities could be legally segregated if they were equal. During Brown vs. Board of Education, the court decided that separate facilities were inherently unequal and ordered that schools be reintegrated.

	There was heavy resistance throughout the southern states, so much so that President Eisenhower sent Federal troops in to Little Rock, Arkansas when the governor at the time threatened to use his National Guard to block black students' entry into the school.		There was heavy resistance throughout the southern states, so much so that President Eisenhower sent [[wikipedia:Little_Rock_Nine#101st_Airborne_escort\|Federal troops in to Little Rock, Arkansas]] when the [[wikipedia:Orval_Faubus\|governor]] at the time threatened to use his National Guard to block black students' entry into the school.

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	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Desegregation Desegregation ~~''(Wikipedia)'']~~		[[wikipedia:Desegregation\|Desegregation]]

	~~[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education Brown vs. Board of Education ''(Wikipedia)''~~]

	~~[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson Plessy vs. Ferguson ''(Wikipedia)''~~]

Communism

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	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Communism Communism ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Communism\|Communism]]

	[http://www.enscriptchun.net/words/sa/ps3.html The Difference between Communism and Socialism]		[http://www.enscriptchun.net/words/sa/ps3.html The Difference between Communism and Socialism]
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	Additional information about Communism is available in e-books which this Wiki's Administrator has restored and made available to purchase through Amazon.		Additional information about Communism is available in e-books which this Wiki's Administrator has restored and made available to purchase through Amazon.

	[~~http~~:~~//www.amazon.com/dp/~~B007FNE8CG Revolutionary Communism in the United States]		[[amazon:B007FNE8CG\|Revolutionary Communism in the United States]]

	[~~http~~:~~//www.amazon.com/dp/~~B007V5XJRI Red War on the Family]		[[amazon:B007V5XJRI\|Red War on the Family]]

Cold War

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	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Cold_War Cold War ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Cold_War\|Cold War]]

	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Warsaw_Pact Warsaw Pact ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Warsaw_Pact\|Warsaw Pact]]

	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~NATO NATO ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:NATO\|NATO]]

Coinage Act of 1965

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	''And very shortly the coins we jingle in our pocket will no longer have the ring of silver, but have no fear we reach something of the height of absurdity when in a press conference recently we were told that the government would stand behind those artificial coins and was prepared to exchange them anytime... for paper.''		''And very shortly the coins we jingle in our pocket will no longer have the ring of silver, but have no fear we reach something of the height of absurdity when in a press conference recently we were told that the government would stand behind those artificial coins and was prepared to exchange them anytime... for paper.''
	</BLOCKQUOTE>		</BLOCKQUOTE>

			If you have never had the opportunity to test it, there is a definite difference in the ring made when dropping a silver coin vs one made of copper and nickel.

	==Source Links ==		==Source Links ==
	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Coinage_Act_of_1965\|Coinage Act of 1965 ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Coinage_Act_of_1965\|Coinage Act of 1965]]

	[http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20232%20Henry%20&%20edward.htm\|Henry VIII and Edward VI]		[http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20232%20Henry%20&%20edward.htm\|Henry VIII and Edward VI]

	[http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/amser/chrono6.html\|Monetary History Timeline 1500-1599]		[http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/amser/chrono6.html\|Monetary History Timeline 1500-1599]

Cleveland, Ohio

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	Reagan speaks of Cleveland in both versions of '[[A Time For Choosing]]', discussing the troubles with the over-reach of [~~eminent domain~~].		Reagan speaks of Cleveland in both versions of '[[A Time For Choosing]]', discussing the troubles with the over-reach of [[Eminent Domain]].

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	==Source Links==		==Source Links==
	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Cleveland Cleveland OH ~~(''Wikipedia'')~~]		[[wikipedia:Cleveland\|Cleveland OH]]

	[http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=E8 Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (''Case Western Reserve University'')]		[http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=E8 Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (''Case Western Reserve University'')]

	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Housing_and_Home_Finance_Agency Housing And Home Finance Agency ~~(''Wikipedia'')~~]		[[wikipedia:Housing_and_Home_Finance_Agency\|Housing And Home Finance Agency]]

Civilian Conservation Corps

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	==Source Links ==		==Source Links ==
	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Civilian_Conservation_Corps Civilian Conservation Corps ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Civilian_Conservation_Corps\|Civilian Conservation Corps]]

	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Job_Corps Job Corps ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Job_Corps\|Job Corps]]

	[http://www.allgov.com/agency/Job_Corps Job Corps]		[http://www.allgov.com/agency/Job_Corps Job Corps]

Charles A Halleck

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	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Charles_Halleck Charles Halleck ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Charles_Halleck\|Charles Halleck]]

Bobby Baker

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	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Bobby_Baker Bobby Baker ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Bobby_Baker\|Bobby Baker]]

Big brother

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	Big Brother is a concept first put forth in George Orwell's book 1984. In the book, he is a person, the dictator of the principle country, Oceania. It has come to be more of the idea that there is an entity (typically the government or government agency) watching over us. While it primarily is used in reference to literal "watching over" (through the use of public area video surveillance) it is sometimes also used to describe any activity in which the government tells the general population how it should or should not act.		Big Brother is a concept first put forth in [[wikipedia:George_Orwell\|George Orwell]]'s book [[wikipedia:Nineteen_Eighty-Four\|1984]]. In the book, he is a person, the dictator of the principle country, Oceania. It has come to be more of the idea that there is an entity (typically the government or government agency) watching over us. While it primarily is used in reference to literal "watching over" (through the use of public area video surveillance) it is sometimes also used to describe any activity in which the government tells the general population how it should or should not act.

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	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Big_Brother_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four) Big Brother ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Big_Brother_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four)\|Big Brother]]

Exodus

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	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~The_Exodus The Exodus ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:The_Exodus\|The Exodus]]

Battle of Concord

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	The Battle of Concord is the second part of the first battle of the American Revolution. The first shots of the war were fired near the city of Lexington as the British were attempting to march from Boston to capture several colonial armories. While the handful of colonists at Lexington were outmatched and routed, by the time the British reached Concord, they found a significantly larger force comprised of several nearby city's militias awaiting them. The British were turned back and the on their return march to Boston, their forces were slowly whittled down by colonial sharpshooters firing from the woods on either side of the path.		The Battle of Concord is the second part of the first battle of the American Revolution. The first shots of the war were fired near the city of Lexington as the British were attempting to march from Boston to capture several colonial armories, along with John Hancock and Samuel Adams, who were in hiding nearby. While the handful of colonists at Lexington were outmatched and routed, by the time the British reached Concord, they found a significantly larger force comprised of several nearby city's militias awaiting them. The British were turned back and the on their return march to Boston, their forces were slowly whittled down by colonial sharpshooters firing from the woods on either side of the path.

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	From '[[A Time For Choosing]]':		From '[[A Time For Choosing]]':
	<BLOCKQUOTE>''You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin--just in the face of this enemy? Or should [[Exodus\|Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs]]? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all.''</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>''You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin--just in the face of this enemy? Or should [[Exodus\|Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs]]? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all.''</BLOCKQUOTE>
			Technically, the ''shot heard 'round the world'' would have been at Lexington, not at Concord.

	Reagan is asking, if freedom isn't worth dying for, why did our fore-fathers (to quote the Declaration of Independence) ''mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor'', to challenge the British?		Reagan is asking, if freedom isn't worth dying for, why did our fore-fathers (to quote the Declaration of Independence) ''mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor'', to challenge the British?

	== Source Links ==		== Source Links ==
	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord Battles of Lexington and Concord ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord\|Battles of Lexington and Concord]]

Balanced Budget

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	== Source Links ==		== Source Links ==
	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Balanced_budget_amendment Balanced Budget Amendment ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Balanced_budget_amendment\|Balanced Budget Amendment]]

	[https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/54/item/19022/toc/380793 Administrative Budget Totals and Public Debt (''PDF'')]		[https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/54/item/19022/toc/380793 Administrative Budget Totals and Public Debt (''PDF'')]
	<!--[http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/usbudget/page/11435/2089/download/11435.pdf Administrative Budget Totals and Public Debt (''PDF'')]-->		<!--[http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/usbudget/page/11435/2089/download/11435.pdf Administrative Budget Totals and Public Debt (''PDF'')]-->

Rice County, Kansas

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	Rice County, Kansas is a sparsely populated county right in the middle of Kansas. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 10,083.		[[wikipedia:Rice_County%2C_Kansas\|Rice County, Kansas]] is a sparsely populated county right in the middle of Kansas. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 10,083.

	== Speech Relevance ==		== Speech Relevance ==
	From '[[A Time For Choosing]]':		From '[[A Time For Choosing]]':
	<BLOCKQUOTE>''For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. The latest is the [[Area Redevelopment Agency]]. They have just declared Rice County, Kansas, a depressed area. Rice County, Kansas, has two hundred oil wells, and the 14,000 people there have over $30 million on deposit in personal savings in their banks. When the government tells you you're depressed, lie down and be depressed.''</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>''For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. The latest is the [[Area Redevelopment Agency]]. They have just declared Rice County, Kansas, a depressed area. Rice County, Kansas, has two hundred oil wells, and the 14,000 people there have over $30 million on deposit in personal savings in their banks. When the government tells you you're depressed, lie down and be depressed.''</BLOCKQUOTE>
	As of 1960, Rice County had a population of 13,909 and it sits on top of the [~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Mid-Continent_oil_province\|Mid-Continent Oil Province]. According to Kansas University records, Rice County still produces ~~almost a million~~ barrels ~~of oil per~~ year.		As of 1960, Rice County had a population of 13,909 and it sits on top of the [[wikipedia:Mid-Continent_oil_province\|Mid-Continent Oil Province]]. According to Kansas University records, Rice County still produces oil and natural gas, though the number of wells and barrels/year are slowly declining.

	== Source Links ==		== Source Links ==

Area Redevelopment Agency

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	The Area Redevelopment Agency was a Federal government agency created in 1961 (signed by JFK on May 1) charged with regional economic development. The government felt that certain areas of the country were commercially underdeveloped due to a lack of available funding for businesses. The agency would provide loans, subsidies and public works projects to stimulate new business.		The Area Redevelopment Agency was a Federal government agency created in 1961 (signed by JFK on May 1) charged with regional economic development. The government felt that certain areas of the country were commercially underdeveloped due to a lack of available funding for businesses. The agency would provide loans, subsidies and public works projects to stimulate new business.

	The ARA was closed in 1965, but resurrected the same year by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 as the Economic Development Agency.		The ARA was closed in 1965, but resurrected the same year by the [[wikipedia:Public_Works_and_Economic_Development_Act_of_1965\|Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965]] as the [[wikipedia:Economic_Development_Administration\|Economic Development Agency]].

	== Speech Relevance ==		== Speech Relevance ==
	In '[[A Time For Choosing]]' Reagan that draws an audible gasp from the audience when he tells them about [[Rice County, Kansas]]:		In '[[A Time For Choosing]]' Reagan that draws an audible gasp from the audience when he tells them about [[Rice County, Kansas]]:
	<BLOCKQUOTE>''For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. The latest is the Area Redevelopment Agency. They have just declared [[Rice County, Kansas]], a depressed area. [[Rice County, Kansas]], has two hundred oil wells, and the 14,000 people there have over $30 million on deposit in personal savings in their banks. When the government tells you you're depressed, lie down and be depressed.''</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>''For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. The latest is the Area Redevelopment Agency. They have just declared Rice County, Kansas, a depressed area. Rice County, Kansas, has two hundred oil wells, and the 14,000 people there have over $30 million on deposit in personal savings in their banks. When the government tells you you're depressed, lie down and be depressed.''</BLOCKQUOTE>
	For comparison purposes, that roughly $30 million is now the equivalent of $208 million.		For comparison purposes, that roughly $30 million is now the equivalent of $208 million.

Amish

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	The Amish are a religious group related to the Mennonites. They lead an intentionally simple life, free of extraneous technologies.		The [[wikipedia:Amish\|Amish]] are a religious group related to the [[wikipedia:Mennonites\|Mennonites]]. They lead an intentionally simple life, free of extraneous technologies.

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	== Source Links ==		== Source Links ==
	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~History_of_Social_Security_in_the_United_States History of Social Security in the United States ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:History_of_Social_Security_in_the_United_States\|History of Social Security in the United States]]

	[http://www.spillingbuckets.com/2010/05/how-amish-fought-social-security-and.html How the Amish Fought Social Security and Won]		[http://www.spillingbuckets.com/2010/05/how-amish-fought-social-security-and.html How the Amish Fought Social Security and Won]