Reagan Wisdom

Reagan Speeches | 1961 | Ronald Regan

[Don Corleone]

REAGAN REMARKS

In a speech by Ronald Reagan delivered before the Orange County Press Club in 1961, and entitled “Encroaching Control”, he alleged that, “Three months before his last visit to this country, Nikita Khrushchev said, ‘We can't expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find they have Communism.’” The comments fit Regan’s anti-communist rhetoric exemplified in other speeches of the time, including a 1964 address in support of the Republican presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater, where he criticizes “government handouts” and the threat of “socialized medicine”

[Don Corleone]

The comments fit Regan’s anti-communist rhetoric and ignored at our peril and that of our children.

[ScottinVA]

Such a different - and far more hopeful and optimistic - era for this country.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Back then and today, it was a “time for choosing.”

[SuperLuminal]

"“Three months before his last visit to this country, Nikita Khrushchev said, ‘We can't expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find they have Communism.’”"

That day has now come and gone...
The long haul is here...

[antidemoncrat]

Many Americans who have their heads buried in so-called social media all the time will wake up some day and find out their freedoms have evaporated.

[ProgressingAmerica]

Here’s the full audio of that speech.

https://archive.org/details/RonaldReagan-EncroachingControl