I’ve seen this many times, but I have never seen the actual congressional record it is ostensibly from. How can you confirm that this is really in the congressional record?
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
On January 10, 1963, Herlong delivered a speech outlining what he believed were 45 goals of communism.
From the link the book itself:
Webmaster Forest Glen Durland found the document in the library.
Sources are listed below.
The quote starts on page 259.
What difference would it make? Any congressmen can read anything he wants into the record. Doesn’t mean it’s true.
It’s really in the Record, but there’s no evidence that it actually came from communists. As far as anyone can find, it was made up by Cleon Skousen in his 1958 book The Naked Communist.