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Walking on a Tightrope
Words to Live By Podcast - April 25, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsToday, the subject is the Middle East. And after years of struggling to find peace and end terrorism in that region, Ronald Reagan characterized the challenges by saying, “it was like walking on a tightrope.” From 1982 to 1991, over thirty U.S. and other Western hostages were kidnapped in Lebanon...
What About Social Security?
Words to Live By Podcast - April 18, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSo, what do you know about Social Security? USA Today reported that President Joe Biden should learn a lesson in leadership from Emmanuel Macron, his counterpart across the pond. The French president has followed through on campaign promises to address pension shortfalls by raising the retirement...
The Banking Crisis
Words to Live By Podcast - April 11, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn today’s podcast, we’re inspired to look back at a speech Reagan delivered in 1987 at the Annual Meeting of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group. "Why," you ask? Well due to the recent bank failures of Silvergate Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature...
Auschwitz Exhibition at the Reagan Library
Words to Live By Podcast - March 28, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsA groundbreaking exhibit opened at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Museum on March 24 entitled Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away. No book, or podcast, or history lesson can prepare you for the impact and power this extraordinary collection of artifacts holds. The exhibition brings toge...
Evil Empire, 40 Years Ago
Words to Live By Podcast - March 21, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsLet’s look back some 40 years ago when President Reagan spoke to a convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Florida on March 8, 1983. In that historic speech, he publicly referred to the Soviet Union as an evil empire…actually, for the second time in his career. Do you recall the...
St. Paddy's Day Toasts
Words to Live By Podcast - March 14, 2023 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings‘Tis the season of wearin’ the green which means St. Patrick’s day and we just can’t be true representatives of President Reagan’s “Words To Live By” if we don’t celebrate some of his colorful thoughts on this, one of his beloved holidays. Going through our archives, I noticed the wonderful toast...
SDI 40 Years Ago
Words to Live By Podcast - March 07, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsLet’s review a bit: recall when Jimmy Carter became President in the late 70s, believing the Soviets were not a threat, he cancelled the B1 Bomber Program and significantly reduced the American defense budget. What that did was to essentially force the US to accept nuclear parity with the Soviet ...
Medal of Freedom
Words to Live By Podcast - February 28, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsI’ve got a question for you today: what do George Balanchine, Paul “Bear” Bryant and Buckminster Fuller, and Clair Booth Luce have in common? The answer is they were awarded, along with 8 others, the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in February 1983. This honor is not to be confused...
To CPAC, with Love
Words to Live By Podcast - February 21, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsCPAC…do you remember what it stands for? It’s an acronym for the Conservative Political Action Conference, kind of a Woodstock for movement conservatives. Always the headliner, Ronald Reagan appeared in January 1974 as Governor of California in CPAC’s inaugural year. To put it in perspective, tha...
The Love Story
Words to Live By Podcast - February 14, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsEveryone loves a good love story, and presidential love stories are no exception. Since we are in the season of Valentine’s Day, the theme of our podcast is the love story between Ronald and Nancy Reagan, specifically his expressive and loving correspondence which began in the 1950 and continued ...
Cars, Chrysler and Ronald Reagan
Words to Live By Podcast - February 07, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSo today, let’s talk about cars, Chrysler, Reagan and…a looming recession. 40 years ago this week, President Reagan addressed the Chrysler plant in beautiful downtown Fenton, Missouri to stoke the fires of recovery and encourage the employees to stay the course. Recall that President-elect Ronald...
Anatomy of a State of the Union Address
Words to Live By Podcast - January 31, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAt the time of this writing, the date for President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address has not been announced, only a general time frame that it will likely be delivered in February or March. In 1983, President Reagan’s State of the Union Address was given on January 25, 1983, at 9:00 p.m. E...
Leadership, Reagan Style
Words to Live By Podcast - January 24, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn January 1983, 40 years ago, the President began his third year in office, working desperately to improve the economy while determined to convince the American people that the best was yet ahead. As a true leader, he met with his Executive team, exactly two years after his inauguration, to intr...
Strategic Arms Reduction
Words to Live By Podcast - January 17, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsPresident Reagan’s courage as a leader, skill as a diplomat, and his willingness to confront communism around the world played a major role in ending the domination of the Soviet Union. He developed and applied with constant purpose a strategy not simply to contain communism, but to end it, and h...
Illegal or Undocumented, What did Reagan Do?
Words to Live By Podcast - January 10, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsToday, we’re being instructed to call them undocumented but most of us still refer to those in this country illegally as…illegals. In the heated debate over immigration reform — despite the politicians and our current president choose to ignore the serious problems, the question that might be ask...
How to Handle the Russians
Words to Live By Podcast - January 03, 2023 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn November 2022, state department officials went to great lengths to prevent a meeting at the G20 summit between Biden and Putin. They knew that at some point, the two leaders would cross paths, but US officials ruled out a formal meeting and took steps to ensure that the American president does...
New Year's Day
Words to Live By Podcast - December 27, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn January 1, 1985, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev addressed each other’s people in an unprecedented exchange of televised New Year’s greetings. Remember that in March 1985, Gorbachev came into office, after the death of former Soviet leader Chernenko and after his very long...
Eight Years of Christmas
Words to Live By Podcast - December 20, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsPresident Reagan, a man of devout faith, loved Christmas deeply. And he chose to share his feelings about the holiday in many different ways over his eight years in office. So today in our podcast, rather than focusing on one single address or message, we’ll take an overview of the President’s ei...
The MX Peacekeeper Missile
Words to Live By Podcast - December 13, 2022 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn November 1981, President Reagan delivered what he considered to be the most important foreign policy speech of his administration. Before the members of the National Press Club, he called for a number of things: the elimination of all intermediate range nuclear force weapons – known as the zer...
Kennedy Center Honors
Words to Live By Podcast - December 06, 2022 07:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsEvery December, Americans celebrate their memorable cultural icons when the Kennedy Center bestows its annual honors to those in the performing arts for their lifetime contributions. Since 1978, the Honors have been presented annually each December to five honorees followed by a gala celebration....
Voting
Words to Live By Podcast - November 29, 2022 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAs this podcasts airs, the 2022 November election results have been in the books for 3 weeks. At least most of the results are in the books. As the contentious debates continue, let’s go back over 40 years to some of Ronald Reagan’s thoughts expressed in his radio addresses on…voting – and on ano...
Gratitude and Thanksgiving
Words to Live By Podcast - November 22, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThanksgiving is just a few days away, a time when we take stock of our many blessings and take an extra moment to let our loved ones know our deepest feelings of appreciation. As you recall, President Reagan was a deeply grateful man, who told the American people in his first Thanksgiving proclam...
Brezhnev v. Putin
Words to Live By Podcast - November 15, 2022 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn November 10, 1982 – 40 years ago – the leader of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, died. Immediately after his passing, Yuri Andropov succeeded him as General Secretary. But our subject today is Brezhnev and the hauntingly similar ways both Brezhnev and Putin have ruled.
Tom Brokaw Interviews Ronald Reagan
Words to Live By Podcast - November 08, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn today’s podcast, we’ll focus on a wonderful interview conducted by Tom Brokaw just 3 days before the President left office. This is not a gotcha interview or a hard-hitting challenge to the president – rather, Brokaw decided to focus on personal issues. You’ll hear the President reflect on his...
The Political Man
Words to Live By Podcast - November 01, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIt’s election season which begs the question – why did Ronald Reagan enter politics? What in his life experiences formed the foundation of a fine communicator and a man of great ideas? In this podcast, we’ll go back to his childhood, his collegiate years, and those following which led to his deve...
The Forgotten 11th Commandment
Words to Live By Podcast - October 25, 2022 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAt the Republican presidential debates in 2011 held at the Reagan Library, Newt Gingrich commented, “Well, I’m frankly not interested in your effort to get Republicans fighting each other. You’d like to puff this up into some giant thing…” Yes, It seems that name calling and vicious attacks are s...
Baseball at the White House
Words to Live By Podcast - October 18, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsDuring this season of primary politics and curious political antics, we are thankfully distracted by our great American pastime, baseball, where hot dogs, peanuts and Cracker Jack still prevail in stadiums across the country. While our 40th president spent more time on the track, in the pool, and...
The Curse of the Midterm Election
Words to Live By Podcast - October 11, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIt’s the season when we anticipate quite a bit of turnover brought about by the curse of the midterm election. 40 years ago, in 1982, Pew Research reported that just 36% of the public said they wanted to see Reagan run for re-election. Recall that Ronald Reagan came to the presidency in 1981 with...
The Queen and the President
Words to Live By Podcast - October 05, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn today’s podcast we’ll focus on President Reagan’s special relationship with her royal highness Queen Elizabeth the second. In 1982, the Reagans visited Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor, where the Queen and Ronald Reagan carried out a specially orchestrated ride through Windsor ...
Crime and Criminal Reform
Words to Live By Podcast - September 27, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIt’s on the news every day – crime rates are escalating exponentially throughout the country. Well, when Ronald Reagan became our 40th president, our country was experiencing the same surge in crime and in 1980 he said, “We need a renewed emphasis on, and an enhanced sensitivity to, the rights of...
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