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As my team was helping me get ready, i was reminded of a line from emerson i dont quote poetry often. President reagan quoted in westminster in 1982. An institution is lengthened by the shadow of one man, and there is no man who did more than reagan to restore americas confidence and human freedom in the post world war ii era. There is no better event than continuing that work by launching this new institution 40 years after america sent our 40th president to the white house. People watching online and those in this room are students of president reagan. As a kid growing up in california, i got to see him in action as the governor. It was a very different california then. [laughter] but it was Ronald Reagan as governor who believed in the promise of america and our people. He understood that no other nation under god was conceived in liberty quite the way that we are. His deep, innate understanding of americas exceptional place in the world gave him the strength to face down the soviet
Thanks, roger, ben, and all the trustees and staff for making this event possible. It is really special to be here today. Im honored you asked me to inaugurate the center for freedom of democracy. [microphone feedback] as my team was helping me get ready, i was reminded of a line from emerson i dont quote poetry often. President reagan quoted in westminster in 1982. Westminster in 1982. An institution is lengthened by the shadow of one man, and there is no man who did more than reagan to restore americas confidence and human freedom in the post world war ii era. There is no better event than continuing that work by launching this new institution 40 years after america sent our 40th president to the white house. People watching online and those in this room are students of president reagan. As a kid growing up in california, i got to see him in action as the governor. It was a very different california then. [laughter] but it was Ronald Reagan as governor who believed in the promise of
Lolled itself into history with names of pride and shame. Words for all time and words of passing fancy. The decade created a new vocabulary in the magnificent and the minuscule. Kennedy,nis kurtz, pope john, john glenn, graham, the beatles, peace corps, clay, leiber, pope paul, the war, nson, warhol, strikes and streisand, dope, black power, goldwater, hippie, dayan, woodstock, the pill, james bond, tiny tim, king, hair, graham, bobby, wallace, golda meir, ecology, the supremes, apollo, psychedelic, wyeth, joe namath, malcolm x, armstrong, nixon, indira gandhi, demonstrations, lem. But no name, no single word repeated itself as often on the pages of the 1960s, and with so much controversy, as the name vietnam. It was a strange mixture of peace and war, a better filled nowhere and everywhere. Life during the day and death during the night. An ally when moment and gone the next. A jungle with barbed wire. Those who wanted to find a war might have to hunt for it. Those who did not want t
Bobby, wallace, golda mayr, ecology, the supremes, apollo, psychedelic, joe namath, malcolm indiratrong, nixon, gandhi, demonstrations, but no , no single word repeated itself as often on the pages of the 1960s, with controversy, as vietnam. Narrator it was a strange mixture of peace and war, a battlefield nowhere and it battlefield everywhere. Death atng the day, night, ally one moment, and be the next, lush jungle, barbed wire. It was all of this. Was who wanted to find a war might have had to hunt for it. Those who didnt want to find it were often became the hunted. Around the world and in the United States of america, there was another battle, battle of words, politics and debate. The question was, who was the hunter in vietnam, and was the hunted . Who would defined aggressor and defender . Searchre was the larger for a definition of the workpiece. Did peace mean only the absence of war, or the absence of war and fear and oppression . This film is a story of the 1960s in two parts