Then Presidential-candidate Ronald Reagan delivers his famous line during the 1980 Republican debate in New Hampshire. From the New Hampshire Political Library archives.
@@olechristianhenne6583Bro Reagan is in the top 6 best presidents. At least for me so you know my list is full of presidents big on reducing government power and having good economies which ofc George Washington number 1.
@@thehair1474you clearly were not alive back then if you think that he was so great . he said some good lines but there was a lot of cr@p we had to deal with back then too
No, he literally forgot where he was and never really ever remembered til he took that final breath. All he ever was decent at happened to be an actor...and he wasn't even a good one of those.
Reagan was clearly a gentleman, but he grew up during the Great Depression and WWII. I guarantee you he’s had to sock a few dudes in the mouth for stepping too far out of line.
@@ahitch3681 Ouch. That hurts so badly. I guess I'll just pick up the pieces and move on with the rest of my life and perform two surgeries tomorrow. What are your plans for tomorrow? More commenting to show how important your opinions are?
That person he's talking to is Jon Breen, who was the editor of the Nashua Telegraph. This is how Americans used to respond when propagandists tried to silence someone.
It seem people don't know the history of this. Reagan literally paid for the mic. $3500 when the Bush campaign wouldn't split the cost. The debate, just three days before the critical New Hampshire primary, was to be sponsored by the Nashua Telegraph. But the FEC said that a newspaper-sponsored debate would not comply with election regulations. Instead, then-candidate Ronald Reagan financed the debate himself with his own campaign money. While Reagan provided the funding, The Nashua Telegraph editorial staff remained in charge of moderating the debate. The newspaper invited front-runners Reagan and George H.W. Bush only, gearing up for a one-on-one match up. Reagan, however, wanted all the candidates on the stage. Since he was paying for the debate, he argued that he should have a say in the ground rules.
Yes, And it was a pivotal moment in his campaign because many voters at the time thought that Reagan came off to soft and affable as a candidate. And this moment showed the primary voters he had a spine of solid steel.
ridiculous. debates should be paid for by the government so campaigns don't get an unfair advantage/disadvantage. This is why we live in a society where the debates are on fucking fox news and CNN. Private news media/interests should have no business with these things.
@@svenrawandreloaded Well, see, I would agree with you, but do you really want our slanted crooked government running a debate? Not that I trust the news media any more.
Sven K so do you want to make political candidates getting together and arguing illegal if it’s not run by the government? There’s nothing official about debates
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair mustangnews.net/ronald-reagan-war-criminal/ theintercept.com/2019/09/17/the-untold-story-joe-biden-pushed-ronald-reagan-to-ramp-up-incarceration-not-the-other-way-around/ lithub.com/ronald-reagan-presided-over-89343-deaths-to-aids-and-did-nothing/ He wasn't a badass. You're believing a lie.
They shouldn't been messing with him period... He stood up, grabbed the mic and realized the wire was too short... He decided to sit down again but if he were to accidental unplugged the damn thing he would have taken it out on that guy (cowboy styly) denying him his mic time...
He was a great communicator and leader. The USSR actually feared him. I mean they were convinced he was going to start a war with them. At one point their fear almost lead to war. Everyone watch the documentary Able Archer. It is is an awesome look at the NATO military exercise that almost started WW 3. Of course NATO had no idea that the Soviets were thinking war about start. Thank God for the bond Reagan and Gorby formed in Regan's second term. It was close to the end of the USSR.
hedegaard8 It's not the gob of the Federal Government to pay for your medical care or your education. We are a free market, representative republic. If you want all those socialist programs, move to Canada. PS Sorry for your loss.
This is such a powerful example of Reagan's character and personal philosophy. Whatever else can be said of him, or not, fair play was at the core of his being.
The man was cracking jokes to people minutes after getting shot, but lost his temper at the unfair treatment his opponents were getting...what a legend.
@No knows Noles NO KNOW HOLES, and your screen name was unusual--sounds as bad as mine!!! oh yes, HARRIS 2020!!! P.S. and yes that's what your screen name looks like to everyone on youtube...don't melt.
@@joebarksdale6437 I gotta admit, I didn't think he'd get a single thing done, but you gotta respect the man for getting Hillary in prison after those non-stop Benghazi trials
@@VerdantSerpents I think he's cleaning up the swamp and making others pay for taking Clinton's side. On another note, guliany was advised the towers where going to fall before hand. Who's working for/with Trump. So I sincerely don't know what to think about our environment/culture/society, etc
@@tonychavez4056 I'm not being combative, but I'm genuinely curious if you have a source for clearing the swamp. In my mind, Scott Pruitt in charge of the EPA is the definition of the swamp
President Reagan was one of the greatest Presidents we've ever had. He was a gentleman and had a good personality, but was also a strong leader and wouldn't be pushed around.
@Michael Smith the thing is if I were to link all the scandals of trump the biden presidency would be over by then. So I rather just tell you to fuck off...
@@pointingdog7235, quite the opposite. As the Republican party has tacked farther and farther right, the Democratic party has also gone farther right itself picking up centrists that kept leaving the Republican party. The US no longer has left/right dichotomy in its two major parties. We have a hard right party and a center right party.
@@josh18230 No, it's time to feed them their own shit until they choke on it and die! Walking away from them is how they win. It's the only way they got this country and most of the civilized world into this mess we have today, BECAUSE NOBODY STANDS UP THEM AND THROWS THEIR OWN SHIT BACK AT THEM LIKE IT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
Well, true, officially you can't. Unfortunately our pandering political system gets politicians to talk like constant PR releases with every word carefully looked over so as to piss off as little people as possible. Reagan realized you can piss off as many people as you want, as long as you please just one more person than you annoy.
@@marktrail8624: I don't want to be that guy, as I am a Trump supporter as well. It's just....as a history buff, when Trump claims stuff like "I've done more for the American people more so than any other president other than perhaps Abraham Lincoln" it just simply is not true. Got tons of evidence to back that claim up. Trump is good, but not THAT good if you catch my drift. Sort of like a diamond in the stone. Not a pure polished one. To tell you the truth, I don't believe personally it's him calling the shots out of all his successes. I think it's just that he has a real solid administration on his hands that he happens to pilot and be the face of. If he were a one man band I think his supporters would have a completely different view of him. Including myself. His team is astonishing and certainly among the best I've seen in contemporary history. People who hate Trump, hate the man himself. Sad reality. But once you dig deeper and put biases aside, you will find something truly special in his team. Such a breath of fresh air not just in US politics but in global politics as well. That's all I'm saying. Don't want to discourage you. Just want to bring you back down to earth a bit😉
He single handedly destroyed the Soviet Union and freed the Russian people from jewish slavery. You people better understand that Trump is the only thing preventing communism in our country.
I hope Trump pulls a Reagan moment x2 on these people if they cut him unfairly. If the opponent (Biden) cant handle being interrupted and talked over when called out on lies, misinformation and so such well that's too damn bad. Let the two argue and rip each other apart. No softball questions or hand holding for Biden, no leading 'gotcha' questions for Trump. Give them far more time to talk argue. Step in when the time limit for the topic is up and let em go on the next topic. This isn't the days of old anymore. We need a ball buster that's gonna grab his opponent by the balls and drag them across the room and swing em about like a ragdoll.
@@commanderwhite12 Trump can't pull a Reagan, he isn't funding the debate. If someone is allowed to talk, he gets to talk no matter what bullshit he says. Trump can say whatever he wants in HIS 2 minutes, and Biden can do the same. Trump and Biden can say as many lies as they want lol- the press and fact-checkers are going to rip them apart if they do. Not saying Trump or Biden are in the right- I don't like either. But the candidates should honor the rules they agreed to.
@jay educate yourself before commenting...his campaign did pay for the event that night. It was just the two of them with everybody else excluded. If somebody else would of paid it would have been an improper campaign contribution.
@@robertob.beltranibanez6819 they were trying to turn off his microphone. They were basically muscling in to undercut his campaign. He wasn't letting them.
Or Regan's "Only Rosie O'donnell" moment. My family and my American ancestors (dating back to around the mid 19th century) have always been conservative Republicans especially during the Regan and now the Trump eras. I remember when Trump and Hilary debated, my dad and I knew that Trump was going to win instantly. He owned that room, just like Regan used to do.
@@Luke-xi2pq that’s amazing the way you mention your dad is he still alive if he is I want you to know he sounds like an amazing person he loved this country unlike half of America at the moment 😌
@frank nb if you cannot explain something in plain English, you do not know what you are talking about. Everybody needs to be able to understand you. A big problem with our 'eloquent' politicians is that they talk in pretty, nonsensical, circles. They never answer questions, they speak in terms that people don't understand because they dont care if the people know what they want to do or not.
@@chilling00000 - I don't know whether to laugh at you or cry for you... Wishing you the best of luck with that. REALLY, I am, but don't expect Trump to do a damn thing about it. There's no money in it for him and taking out the CCP would weaken Russia which would actually COST the Trump foundation millions of dollars. Sorry, friend, but Donald Trump is not your savior. :((
@@_Common_Logic_ Trump has introduced various legislation that calls for UN action against chinese illegal detainment of minority populations. I am factually correct, and I will say this without bias, that trump has done more about chinese human rights violations than Obama did, who, for all I know so far, just met with the daili llmama.
@@_Common_Logic_ Also, the whole trade war thing going on, is meant to curb unfair chinese business practices, which is why a lot of business men, like Jeff Alien Bezos(who also owns the Washington pos) , hates Donald trump, a big reason for this is because Amazon's cheap deals rely on cheap manufacturing, which is only found in china(sweatshops produce much of the t shirts that are sold on amazon)
This moment won him the Republican nomination and the "There you go again" line from the 1980 debate sealed the November election. I remember watching this on the evening news in 1980, and even as a 14 year old 8th grader, knew everyone else was toast.
Sam Donaldson: "Mr. President, in talking about the continuing recession tonight, you have blamed mistakes in the past. You have blamed the Congress. Does any of the blame belong to you?" Reagan: "Yes, because for many years I was a Democrat!"
@@Kreemerz that's why I said mr. Green you're going to pay for this that mic as if Reagan was telling mr. Green he was going to pay for the mic if you don't understand the joke don't comment dumb shit
@@justinvang6338 so now you just know what other people are thinking obviously he didn't understand the joke otherwise he wouldn't have made the comment he made regardless of whether he thought it was funny or not because by him saying that Reagan had already paid for the mic that clearly means he didn't understand the joke
@@chrislebelmusic1540 To be fair Chris, the first documented case of HIV in the US appeared in December 1981, at the end of his first year as President. Up until the end of the 1990' s not much was known about the virus. During those times, CNN was telling us a mosquito could transfer the virus to people. There was so much misinformation back then because we didn't know much back then. Presidents are not medical researchers, period.
Jimmy Crackcorn jimmy I think he was just meaning is was random bud...I think you were taking some thing from what he said that wasn’t actually there amigo
This is the exact reason why they now turn off mics in debates. The unioarty knows we will always have the upper hand in emotional moments. They have to take the Alpha away. Otherwise the crowd will naturally follow the alpha in the room.
@Wicked Jester okay, throwing insults around is getting to a point where I can't even understand what you all are trying to say. "You love his un fertile seed ..." Jesus.
@Wada Bailey Fact: He was an actor at one point, he was accustomed to reading lines others had given him. Is that some how offensive, or is that an alternative fact? It's hard to tell anymore these days, with all the paid shills that have no content whatsoever on their profile page.
he was a piece of shit who wanted the middle class destroyed. Trump can be traced directly to his pure bullshit delivery. what a dull fascist you must be to adore such a fiend.
Jeff Greenwade oh I was just saying that Real Americans still love America the way that Reagan did. Not those sjw communist bastards that want socialism.
Luke Milbocker firstly your comment makes no sense, secondly the guy reagan was talking to wasnt media, and third Ronald reagan is the only president considered by the international justice committee to be an international terrorist, you aren’t setting a very high bar.
VlaadChamp Yes because helping Nicaraguans fight off a terrorist insurgency=terrorism You realize the international court is biased as heck right? They call Israel, the only functioning Democracy in the Middle East, the worst country in the World while never ever lifting a finger against North Korea, Cuba, China, or Russia It’s all a farse
VlaadChamp Today 6.4 million Nicaraguans live in freedom thanks to Reagan instead of a Fidel Castro style Communist dictatorship. I’d say Reagan did good
John Brown the groups funded and armed by the US were the terrorist insurgents, we were funding a coup in Nicaragua, not stopping one. The idea of containment becomes tainted when you realize most of the “brutal communist regimes” we toppled were democratically elected, we just didn’t like who the people voted for so we became more hands on if need be. He also turned America into a police state ramping up the war on drugs while selling them himself to fund his excursion into Nicaragua. North Korea, china, Cuba and Russia aren’t aggressors like israel is, they’re terrible regimes but out of the 5 israel is by far the most aggressive and violent, hence why they’re the worst, they’ve continued to be aggressive towards their neighbors using US weapons to kill civilians in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. North Korea hasn’t been in a conflict since the 50s, China’s violations are internal, not international, same with Russia and Cuba is just a poor country, not at all comparable to the other 4. The key is while the countries you listed commit human rights violations, they’re contained to their own borders, israel has been bombing civilian centers since the 70s, making them by definition, terrorists. Calling yourself a democracy is meaningless when you act like tyrants, they’re a militant state backed by imperialists wanting to install puppet states in the region.
@@sodkikotek8174 that means rape victims lives were ruined first by sexual violation then by forced pregnancy, and labor through their body. Some serious suffering
I had that privilege, twice! Well, actually it was more than that because I voted for him in the Presidential primaries, was it three of them? My memory is getting bad.
I was a child/teen during the Reagan years. During the Cold War, Reagan's eloquence, optimism combined with strength of character was always a comfort to me. Reagan was a STRONG individual who truly believed in America and its people.......
@Mrs. Phyllis Stephens Sounds legit. Not. Biden is without a doubt demented. He said he was running for Senate, said that jobs is a five letter word , could not remember Trump's name, or... you know the thing. Sad.
@CherrySteak Trump passed the test, Biden refused. Here is why: summit.news/2020/04/22/norwegian-psychiatrist-claims-joe-biden-is-suffering-from-dementia/
Yeah...He just gave millions of illegals amnesty and did not pass a single law on the problem and now? We have 30 million more and 13 million Anchor babies. Reagan was a fucking liberal in sheep's clothing! Trump 2020 Trump is way fucking better than Reagan!
@@maskedmarvyl4774 Clearly you don't care about history. "Senile sociopath"? Oh please. More leftist bullshit. We've got enough of that everywhere else. We don't need it here from some nobody on RU-vid.
You are totally correct. Reagan brought America and the western world back from the brink- Margaret Thatcher recognized that. Reagan's conservatism stirred up hatred from leftists, then and now.
@@bondyebeniw9183 , The brink of what? Reagan funded the bloodsoaked Contras with money he made from selling military components to our enemy, Iran - treason if there ever was treason. Then he armed the Contras, to overthrow a democratically elected government, because he didn't approve of a socialist government. The CIA trained the Contras, and encouraged them to attack civilian targets, instead of military ones, to "increase the terror". We trained terrorists. Over 10,000 innocent Nicaraguans were murdered, many of them nurses, who were raped by these monsters before they were killed. And Reagan funded all of that, and was advised as to what they were doing. He had no problem with it. That is the "decent man" you are complimenting. This was an evil man, who should have been impeached and put in prison for the rest of his life, and remembered as the bloodsoaked war criminal that he was. What country are you trolling from, my sad, simple little friend?
Do you realize your stereotypical liberal condescending attitude is why many people turn to the right? Keep it up, you douchebags are the best recruiting tool.
Eternal Void Let's list some accomplishments, shall we? He stopped the Cold War. He re-authorized the Voting Rights Act for another 25 years. He appointed the first female Supreme Court Justice. He developed the 'Reagan Doctrine', in support for international anti-communist movements. There you go! Some facts and reasons why he was an amazing president.
He brought inflation under control..lowered interest rates from over 20% ..created the greatest peacetime expansion of the economy and he along with Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II brought down the Soviet Union..Get a history book and educate yourself
@@smartviewer7346 So being am actor means you can't have human impulses anymore? It always has to be scripted right? Gosh, just because someone was an actor doesn't mean they don't have natural feelings and reactions. Actors get a lot of crap today, especially those who stick their necks into public office. Ease up a bit.
@@neecicoleman1690 I think you read into my comment too much. Reagan was genuine and wasn't scripted. Not doubt his acting skills helped him with his communication skills and that was all I was referring to. And Reagan was pro-democracy, would have been a democrat.
