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    Economic Recovery Program

    President Ronald Reagan's speech to a joint session of Congress on the Program for Economic Recovery, April 28, 1981.

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    Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy

    On March 4, 1987, President Reagan delivered a speech from the Oval Office on the Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy

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    National Security and SDI

    In a televised address to the nation, delivered on March 23, 1983, President Reagan announced his vision of a world safe from nuclear threat. His Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), later dubbed "Star Wars" by the press, is an idea that remains controversial to this day.

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    Reagan's Farewell Speech

    In 1989, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan delivered this farewell speech.

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    The Brotherhood of Man

    One year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, President Ronald Reagan dedicated Breakthrough, a structure sculpted from eight sections of the Berlin Wall, as the centerpiece of the Westminster College Cold War Memorial. 

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    The Evil Empire

    Although President Ronald Reagan did not actually use the phrase "evil empire" in this June 8, 1982 speech, he described the collapse of global communism as inevitable.

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    Teacher's Guide

    This teacher's guide has been created to accompany the film, for use in classrooms and other learning spaces.

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    George H.W. Bush

    Read about the life of 41st President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush, a man born to both economic and political privilege, and tutored in modesty.

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    Message to Congress on Social Security

    A recommendation for legislation to help protect Americans from the hazards of life.
     

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    Mobilization for Human Needs, 1933

    FDR asks for community cooperation to help the needy.

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    New Deal a Square Deal for the Negro?

    An African American journal, Opportunity, examines New Deal policies and calls for fair treatment for blacks.

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    Oral Histories

    Sample some questions and answers collected by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers Project as part of the New Deal employment programs.