From lebanon. They called it the reagan revolution. But for me it always seemed more like a rediscovery of our values. Once you begin a Great Movement, theres no telling where it will end. Thank you. Were faced with an unprecedented situation in this country today. Jimmy carters demonstrated inability to govern our nation. But i have faith in the greatness of the people of this country. This country has everything that it always had before, except the leadership in washington that this country requires. Reagan put a lot of energy and effort into 1980. The economy had been through a recession, and in addition to that, the United States had been embarrassed by the iran hostage crisis. The country wanted to turn the corner and Ronald Reagan held the promise of all of that. America is turning to a new political direction for at least the next four years. To the right. Republican Ronald Reagan rode an electoral vote landslide to the white house and republicans swept to control of the senate for the first time in a quarter century. Reagan conveyed a sense of optimism and hope. The secret to his success was that he made people feel good. Even though reagan had been a fairly successful governor of the largest state in the union, he was still doubted for his odd background for a politician as having been a hollywood actor. And he was very controversial. He took a lot of outrageous positions. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem. For 50 years, americans had been looking to government to solve their problems. When reagan gave his speech, thats marked a 180degree turnaround in the american political conversation in the trend of american politics. Can we solve the problems confronting us . Well, the answer is an unequivocally emphatic yes. And after all, why shouldnt we believe that . We are americans. God bless you, and thank you. We have a report. Im just told that the Associated Press reports that the hostages are leaving tehran. They say that the hostages are leaving the airport. For 444 days, 52 americans were held halfway around the world. A sign of carters weakness and reagan comes in and, poof, theyre released. Theyre free. Theyre free, mr. President. Theyre free, mr. President. Weve had press reports that theyre free. Weve had press reports. What do you have to say about that . What do you have to say . Only one thing to say. Thank god. You could not have had a more stunning beginning to a presidency. The whole last year of the Carter Administration is defined by the hostages and in the first hours of reagans administration theyre free. Thats the case with the image absolutely defines the reality. I just wont call them hostages. They were prisoners of war. If the hostages had not been released, reagan would have been forced to focus on the hostage crisis. With the hostages back, he was free to focus on the economy. Inflation and unemployment are threatening the american way of life as never before. And without a change of policy, these intolerable conditions will get even worse. Inflation flared again last month, almost doubling the rate of the month before. In 1967, inflation was 2. 9 . Last year it was 12. 4 . People were afraid. People had begun to think that america was in a kind of relative decline. We had high unemployment and high inflation. Which at the time was thought to be impossible under the existing economic orthodoxy. It required something new to change that problem. If we can lower the rate of increase in government spending, up there ahead is daylight. Today we have found 72 of the savings that we would have to achieve in order to meet that 53 billion reduction target. Reaganomics was if you give what they call the investing class the money, then it would trickle down to the bottom of the pile and cutting taxes would increase revenues. The president spent the day deal with brush fires on the right and left of his new plan for the economy. The cuts he wants to make in the budget and in income taxes brought out into the open some disagreements among his supporters and his opponents. Reagan says cut back. We say fight back. The administration has gambled our future on a dubious plan that does not deal with the relentless spiral of rising prices, wages and Interest Rates. Ive read an awful lot about how were going to really hurt the poor and things of that nature and this administration with our cuts. That is absolutely not what were going to do. Reagan came in with a very savvy staff that understood the challenges they faced to try to change things in a radical way. But they did come up against an entrenched washington culture and a democratic establishment that just wasnt going to roll over for Ronald Reagan and let him get his way. If we do nothing else in thus administration were going to convince this city the power, money and the responsibility in this country begins and ends with the people, not with some cinderblock building in washington, d. C. Thank you very much. Mr. President [ gunshots ] get down we interrupt. Theres been a late development. Shots reported fired outside the hotel where president reagan spoke a short time ago. Details are very sketchy at this moment. We dont know precisely what happened. We dont know the sequence. First of all, the president is safe. Im on the air trying to get more information. Here, we have a report that the president s adviser for political for political affairs. Lynn has told reporters at the hospital that the president was not wounded he was. He was wounded. He was the president was hit. He is in stable condition. All this information. We have one more bit of information. The bullet that struck the president has not yet been removed, and he is not undergoing surgery at this time. He was, however, struck in the left chest. The last word we had is that he was conscious and that his condition was described as stable. My god. Four unlimited lines fory bucks each. With netflix included. Watch however you want. On your phone, tablet, or tv. Lets rock this joint oh very nice. Now im turning into my dad. I text in full sentences. I refer to every child as chief. This hat was free. What am i supposed to do, not wear it . Next thing you know, im telling strangers defense wins championships. Well, it does. Right . Why is the door open . Are we trying to air condition the whole neighborhood . At least i bundled home and auto on an internet website, progressive. Com. Progressive cant save you from becoming your parents, but we can save you money when you bundle home and auto. 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The most common side effect is bone and muscle ache. So why go back there . If youd rather be home, ask your doctor about Neulasta Onpro. We were told that a decision is now being made on whether to operate on the president to remove the bullet from his left side. When the word came, it sounded as if the president might not make it through the night. Might die on the surgeons table. Ides emphasize the president s condition is stable and that we were informed by jim baker that he did walk into the hospital. I was at the white house. The information coming in was incomplete. They werent fully up to date on what was happening with the president s condition. And then when they found out how serious it was, they wanted to reassure everybody. Coming indirectly from one of the surgeons is that the bullet as we have reported once before did miss the president s heart. Missed by an inch. He told mrs. Reagan, honey, i forgot to duck. What . I forgot to duck. And then when he got into the operating room, he looked at the doctors and he said, please tell me youre republicans. Reagan relied on this group of advisers. Jim baker as his chief of staff, a really skilled, shrewd political insider, ed meese, a counselor to the president , and Michael Deaver in charge of the media operations. They ran the white house. The assassination attempt and aftermath elevated Ronald Reagans popularity to a new high. The latest nbc news Associated Press poll shows his job rating jumped ten points. Reagan understood that he was getting this sort of sympathy reaction. Everybody was rooting for him all of a sudden because they didnt want him to die. They didnt want to lose a president. So without missing a step, he goes right into what the message is. Weve got to get this tax and spending bill passed and weve got to do it now. Mr. Speaker, the president of the United States. It was just like the movies. Reagan was a true american hero. The president looking very jovial, very healthy. I was seated in the well of the house there when he was addressing congress. It was magic. Everybody was so grateful that his life had been spared. It was a stirring moment. If he wants them to stop, theyre not going to stop for a while. They handed president reagan and the republicans a major victory. For the second time in his drive to cut the federal budget, president reagan got what he wanted by a house controlled by the opposition party. Reagan comes off with a victory in congress and the recovery from the assassination attempt looking very strong, very bold. Like a very determined leader. Good evening. The strike began as scheduled at 7 00 local time this morning. Its impact immediate. Many flights delayed. Many more cancelled. The air Traffic Controllers worked terrible hours. They were underpaid. They wanted a big raise. They didnt get what they wanted. They said were going to go out on strike. They were the only union in the country that endorsed Ronald Reagan. But, by law, they were forbidden to strike. They were in violation of the law. If they do not report for work in 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated. End of statement. What . He actually did that . And its kind of like hitting the mule on the head with a 2x4. This afternoon, president reagan started firing the strikers and the government claimed it was ready to rebuild the whole system without them. This sent a powerful message to different parts of the electorate. Many unions were terrified. It also sent a bigger message about the type of leader hed be. He was not scared to do what was controversial. If ever a president ial policy reflected a president s own character, it is reaganomics. Its so personal is barely qualifies as an economic theory. But the trouble is reaganomics is not working. Its been the single overwhelming failure of the reagan administration. More than 12 million americans out of work. The highest rate of unemployment since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The tax cut did not give the economy the supply side kick that had been promised. Business got steadily worse. Factories closed. Layoffs, bankruptcies. The federal deficit skyrocketed. Inflation had been brought under control and quickly a remarkable accomplishment but at a terrible cost. Reagan was trying hard to kill inflation as fast as he could. That was working. The problem was Interest Rates were going up to 18 . Its like chemotherapy for the economy. It kills a lot of other things along the way. The government can live with high unemployment to curb inflation. That seems to be a very high price for us to have to pay. Supposed to be the land of opportunity. Its not anymore. Its the land for the rich and the poor can go to hell. I think were going to have some hard times for the next few months while we had predicted as you know a stagnant economy none of us had predicted the stepping over into recession. When David Stockton came in and said the deficit is not going down. Its simply getting larger, reagan apparently was shocked. Perhaps he had been too beguiled by his own supply side rhetoric. Reaganomics, as its call, was not generating enough revenue. The theory that if you detax the rich, everybody will be better off because theyll invest that money. Turned out not to be true. These are not especially happy days for budget director david stockman. The december issue of the Atlantic Monthly has a long article about stockman in which hes quoted as saying things he no doubtedly wished he had not said. I got an early copy. The president gave a News Conference that day. I kept waving my hand. He didnt call on me. So i chased him out. Your budget director more or less says with the Economic Program is wrong. It creates inflationary he had no idea what i was talking about, clearly. So i broke the story that night that the budget director blew the whistle on this plan. What he still contends were off the record conversations, stockman expressed disillusion. Stockman refers to naive supply siders. The whole reagan plan is premised on faith. None of us understands whats going on with all these numbers. It was very, very damaging. A lot of people wanted him fired, but i thought we had to keep him because he knew more about the budget than anybody. So i prevailed upon the president to not fire him. We have faith in our program and were sticking with it. The paid political complainers, let me say as politely as i can, put up or shut up. President reagan standing in the nbc ap poll has gone from a high of 65 approval after he was shot to a low of 43 last fall. Thats a bit lower than any previous president at that stage of his stay in the white house. We lost big in the 1982 midterms. 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A battalion of American Marines came out to separate the israelis from the palestinians and oversee the withdrawal of the plo from lebanon, but it got sucked in to the lebanese civil war. The civil war is between christians and muslims, and to the muslims it looked like we were supporting the christians. A big debate broke out afterwards. Should we have ever put our marines in that kind of vulnerable position when they didnt have a clear politician. They were just kind of sitting there. The United States in the middle east was faced with an array of small forces, little cells, underground, not knowing who they were, where they were and even what they wanted. There are no words to properly express our outrage, and i think the outrage of all americans. Do you have any idea who did it . Are we going to take reprisals, sir . Reagan call the killing of the marines the saddest day of my presidency. The saddest day of my life. I think it was the low point of the reagan presidency. A question that must be asked is why 241 men were killed by terrorists, yet this country wasnt outraged. There were no demonstrations, no marches. Little outcry. The reason . Within 48 hours of the bombing, the United States invaded grenada. About 1,900 u. S. Army rangers and marines this morning assaulted the small island which measures only 12 miles by 21 miles. Grenadas population is about 110,000, roughly the size of cedar rapids, iowa. Theres a coup, allegedly a communist coup, and reagan seizes on this to stage an invasion. The United States received an urgent formal request to assist in a joint effort to restore order and democracy on the island of grenada. An american fruit carrier was passing by on its way to lebanon. So all they did was turn that combat ready ship into grenada. Marines took control of grenadas airports and began broadcasting a soothing message. Your cooperation will ensure that peace and democracy are restored in the near f