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Star Wars and SDI
Words to Live By Podcast - April 23, 2024 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings40 years ago, the Russians were still on the march, just like today. Then, of course, it was known as the Soviet Union, and the threat they posed to the United States and Europe was unrelenting and terrifying. European leaders were begging President Reagan to do something, complaining that the pr...
The Dominican Republic
Words to Live By Podcast - April 16, 2024 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsToday, the turmoil and civil war in the country of Haiti dominate the headlines. As of this writing, for three weeks, Haiti’s capital has been trapped in a gory cycle that far exceeds the kidnapping and gang violence for which it was already known. An insurgent league of heavily armed gangs is wa...
Basketball at the White House
Words to Live By Podcast - April 09, 2024 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAt Eureka College, our 40th President participated in almost every sport. No, he wasn’t a candidate for the Olympic team. Ronald Reagan’s football coach Ralph McKinzie said, “Dutch was not an outstanding player but he was a good plugger with a lot of spirit and desire.” Besides football, he went ...
Trip to China
Words to Live By Podcast - April 02, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings40 years ago, in the spring of 1984, President Reagan spent six days in the People’s Republic of China, visiting Beijing and Shanghai. To ease into the schedule, he was a week getting there and he spent another day and a half in Alaska afterward, meeting once more with Pope John Paul II. It was R...
Denouncing Anti-Semitism
Words to Live By Podcast - March 26, 2024 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWe know that Israel had no better partner/defender/protector than Ronald Reagan. And our 40th president never missed an opportunity to denounce anti-semitism, bigotry, or prejudice. In this era of strident anti-semitism, bigotry, and prejudice occurring in our nation today, we thought we should f...
St. Paddy's Day and Economic Recovery
Words to Live By Podcast - March 19, 2024 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWell, this podcast might be airing a few days after St. Patrick’s Day but bear with me. We’ve got an interesting radio address for you combining the President’s two favorite topics - briefly about St. Patrick’s Day and how America’s economic recovery was well underway. The President was at Camp D...
Star Wars and the Strategic Defense Initiative
Words to Live By Podcast - March 12, 2024 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsFor thirty-five years -- through seven presidencies -- the United States and its allies labored unceasingly to contain Communism around the world. They used a broad range of diplomatic, military, and economic initiatives costing tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars. They used econom...
CPAC and Conservative Ideas
Words to Live By Podcast - March 05, 2024 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsCPAC. Just those four letters bring to mind the crazy, dynamic conference it has become in recent years. Ronald Reagan first spoke as Governor Reagan in 1974 and ten years later in 1984, he relied on the same theme: unity coupled with America’s Divine charge. So in today’s podcast, we’ll listen t...
Olympic Athletes
Words to Live By Podcast - February 28, 2024 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWell, we are in another Olympic year, with the summer Olympics taking place this July and August in Paris, France. 40 years ago, the President was excited to welcome athletes from the Winter Olympics, held in Sarajevo, then Yugoslavia, to the White House. It was the first Winter Olympic Games hel...
Tension in the Middle East
Words to Live By Podcast - February 20, 2024 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe complexity of dealing with problems in the Middle East was pervasive during the Reagan years but the 40th President continued to pursue a path to peace. In February 1984, he invited President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan to Washington to discuss the war in Lebanon and oth...
Ron and Nancy's Love Story
Words to Live By Podcast - February 13, 2024 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsNow that we’re into the month of February when lovers celebrate their devotion to one another, we’ll dedicate this podcast to the Reagans – first, we’ll hear a brief word from the President and then we’ll let Mrs. Reagan explain how she met this fella, in her own words, recorded years ago from he...
A Birthday Celebration
Words to Live By Podcast - February 06, 2024 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings40 years ago, Ronald Reagan traveled to his hometown in Dixon, Illinois for his 73rd birthday celebration on February 6th, 1984. True to form, the jokes were flying, as were the warm memories. He was there with his older brother, Neil, his sister-in-law, and of course, Nancy. They toured one of t...
Superbowl and Football
Words to Live By Podcast - January 23, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWell, now that we’re into football playoff season, we have the perfect opportunity to focus on Ronald Reagan’s love for football. His experience in high school on the gridiron helped him audition for radio. Let's let him tell the story.
The Soviets 40 Years Ago
Words to Live By Podcast - January 16, 2024 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsForty years ago in January 1984, our 40th President delivered an address to the nation and other countries on the status of US-Soviet relations. Things weren’t too rosy then – recall that Andropov was still in power, unapologetic about the massacre of KAL 007, or anything else. Until Gorbachev ca...
China and Premier Zhao Ziyang
Words to Live By Podcast - January 09, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsToday’s subject? The President’s diplomatic efforts with China in 1984. Yes, in those years, there were positive diplomatic efforts. In fact, the administration developed a relationship with Ziyang who was a reformer, in office from 1980 to 1987. Shortly after George Shultz became Secretary of St...
A Voice of Freedom
Words to Live By Podcast - January 02, 2024 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThroughout Ronald Reagan's presidency, the subject of Cuba was frequently raised. In frustration, on one occasion, the president asked, “When’s the last time you heard someone swimming TO Cuba?” But long before he sat in the Oval Office, President Reagan commented on a documentary that had been c...
A New Year's Eve Message
Words to Live By Podcast - December 26, 2023 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSo just imagine. You’re the president, it’s late in December 1983. You’ve delivered your evil empire speech in March putting the Soviets on notice… you’ve learned by detailed intelligence reports that the communists and Fidel Castro are expanding their efforts in the Caribbean along with infiltra...
SpaceLab Collaboration
Words to Live By Podcast - December 19, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsDo you remember Spacelab? Or perhaps the question should be, what do you recall about Spacelab? In case you’re a little foggy on this one, here’s a little history: during the development of the Space Shuttle in the 1970’s, NASA recognized the need for a facility to allow scientists to conduct exp...
Hanukkah and Respect for Religious Freedom
Words to Live By Podcast - December 12, 2023 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsToday, we are witnessing the emergence of hatred targeted at numerous religious groups. It defies logic, since the basis of all religion is love, isn’t it? Ronald Reagan, a man of private yet devout faith, respected all religions and this time of the year, honored the celebration of Hanukkah. He ...
Family
Words to Live By Podcast - December 05, 2023 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsFamily – well, it’s the center of all our activities this time of year, the reason for the season, so to speak. And to Ronald Reagan, incredibly important. So following in the tradition established in 1972 by President Richard Nixon, he proclaimed National Family Week which occurs near Thanksgivi...
Israel from Other Vantage Points
Words to Live By Podcast - November 28, 2023 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsBecause of the war in the Middle East, we thought it would be a good idea to devote today’s podcast to Israel, focusing on the radio addresses written by Ronald Reagan before entering the Oval Office. So remember, he wrote these, on a yellow pad, without the oversight of a foreign policy advisor,...
Israel and Thanksgiving
Words to Live By Podcast - November 21, 2023 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsNow this might seem an odd pairing…Israel and Thanksgiving. But, as of this writing, the war in the Middle East rages. While in America, we are focused on Thanksgiving celebrations, we cannot overlook the terrible pain, suffering, and yes, terror the residents of the Middle East are enduring. The...
The Troops in South Korea
Words to Live By Podcast - November 14, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsForty years ago, President and Mrs. Reagan made an historic trip to Japan and South Korea. The President’s last stop was to Camp Liberty Bell, which was less than a mile from North Korean guns. Yes, they were quite near the DMZ. They attended an open air church service and the president wrote in ...
Honoring Our Veterans
Words to Live By Podcast - November 07, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn today’s podcast we honor our veterans and in the president’s messages to veterans, we’ll cover peace through strength. Going through our archives, both Citizen, Governor and President Reagan delivered many addresses saluting those who serve our country. Today we’ve chosen two – the first he de...
Terms of Engagement
Words to Live By Podcast - October 31, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAfter the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the President said in his autobiography that the “price we had to pay was so great, the tragedy at the barracks so enormous, and the virulent problems of Lebanon were so intractable, that it wasn’t possible to continue with the policy that had p...
Beirut and Grenada
Words to Live By Podcast - October 24, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn 1982, the Israeli army leveled a siege on the capital of an Arab land – Beirut. They were poised on the southern edge of Beirut. And Palestinian fighters ran raids against their front lines and lobbed mortars in their rear areas; the Israel Defense Forces pounded back at the city with artiller...
Quality of Life
Words to Live By Podcast - October 17, 2023 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsEverything from eggs and car rentals to a night out at a restaurant is significantly more expensive than before the pandemic. The average family is spending about $700 more per month on the same goods and services relative to two years ago, according to Moody’s Analytics. So what does that have t...
Lebanon vs. Ukraine
Words to Live By Podcast - October 10, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsToday, we’re well aware of the ongoing debate regarding how much aid we should send Ukraine, and exactly what our level of involvement should be. It’s a question many administrations have faced, and President Reagan’s was no exception. In his case, the hotbed was in the middle east, particularly ...
The Heritage Foundation and Ronald Reagan
Words to Live By Podcast - October 03, 2023 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSo, Ronald Reagan and the Heritage Foundation: it was a truly epic partnership. In fact, it's hard to tell the story of one without much of the other's. Heritage was President Reagan's favorite think tank, and Ronald Reagan was the embodiment of the ideas and principles Heritage holds dear. Some ...
Debate Season
Words to Live By Podcast - September 19, 2023 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsYou might have heard that the Reagan Presidential Foundation is hosting a Republican debate in their Air Force One Pavilion on Wednesday, September 27th. We’re proud to be able to participate in this important component of our democratic process and we hope you’ll tune into FOX news on debate eve...
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