Latest Reagan library Podcast Episodes
Firecracker 400, Daytona Beach
Words to Live By Podcast - July 02, 2024 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOk here’s a trivia question for you….There was a famous car racing competition that took place in Daytona Beach, Florida on the 4th of July - do you know the name? Yes, it was called the Firecracker 400 and 40 years ago….our 40th President attended! In 1989, the "Firecracker" moniker was dropped,...
Diversity
Words to Live By Podcast - June 25, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsToday, we hear comments regarding the policy of DEI - Diversity, equity, and inclusion which are organizational frameworks. And the intent is to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimin...
Walter Cronkite
Words to Live By Podcast - June 18, 2024 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn Walter Cronkite’s last, official interview for CBS before being replaced by Dan Rather, he chose to interview one man: The President of the United States. Not in the Oval Office, but in Normandy, France, and just moments after the President delivered his historic addresses on Omaha Beach and a...
Education and Respect
Words to Live By Podcast - June 11, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAfter the recent uprisings at many of America’s collegiate institutions, we thought we’d look back on how Governor Reagan handled the situation, 50 years ago in the late 60’s and early 70’s. In his 1966 campaign for California governor, Republican Ronald Reagan promised to "clean up the mess at B...
Pointe du Hoc
Words to Live By Podcast - June 04, 2024 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn June 6, 1984, President Reagan delivered remarks in honor of the 40th anniversary of the D-day invasion. Earlier in the day, he delivered a riveting speech at Pointe du Hoc which will be the subject of today’s podcast. So today, we are remembering the D-day invasion of 1944, 80 years ago. Of t...
Eulogies in Honor of President Reagan
Words to Live By Podcast - May 30, 2024 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn June 5th this year – 2024, it’s hard to believe that 20 years have passed since we laid President Ronald Wilson Reagan to rest. In this podcast, we’ll reflect on the ceremonies and speeches celebrating his life and legacy. In his honor, President George W. Bush declared June 11, 2004, a nation...
The Olympic Torch
Words to Live By Podcast - May 21, 2024 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn Friday, April 26, the Olympic flame for the 2024 Paris games was officially handed over to a delegation from the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee during a ceremony in Athens Greece. The ceremony took place at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens where the modern Olympics were first opened in 1896....
Central America
Words to Live By Podcast - May 14, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhy should we care about Central America? Today, almost half of the 2.5 million migrants who crossed our southern border in 2023 were from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, or Nicaragua. In this podcast, we’ll talk about those neighbors to the South, and hear what the president said in 1983 and 1984.
Truman and Reagan
Words to Live By Podcast - May 07, 2024 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn May 8, 1984, the White House honored Harry Truman’s 100th birthday. Sadly, Harry died in 1972 at the age of 88, but Ronald Reagan who had admired, respected, and campaigned for Harry Truman, was staunchly in favor of celebrating this honorable man. His remarks, delivered at the White House wit...
The United Nations
Words to Live By Podcast - April 30, 2024 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsPresident Reagan’s disappointment in and distrust of international organizations is vividly apparent in his radio commentaries from 1975-1980. Today, when we look at the situation in Ukraine, and the tragedies unfolding in Gaza, we can’t help but wonder what, if anything, the organization has acc...
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...
State of the Union
Words to Live By Podcast - January 30, 2024 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsBy the end of January every year, except for Inaugural years, the President fulfills his or her constitutional duty to "give to the Congress information on the State of the Union" (Article II, section 3 of the Constitution). So yes, today’s podcast will focus on the infamous State of the Union ad...
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 ...
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