"20 Minute Program" - Bush, George Herbert Walker (George H.W.) - [Republican], 1988
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Identifier: P-1521-75350
"SUMMARY: 20 min spot: republican party reforms, also compares Bush and Dukakis on issues. SUBJECTS: biography; endorsement; plan CREATOR: LENGTH (extent): 00:20:00 ICPSR: 99908 STATE ICPSR: 99 PARTY CODE: 200 GENDER (legacy): Male"
Dates
- Broadcast: 1988
Extent
From the Series: 14,137 Items (14,137 items (This series includes United States Office of President Campaign Ads from 1912-2016): Each item within this collection falls under the following categories: 16mm film reels, VHS videotape, 3/4" U-Matic videotape, 1" and 2" tap, Beta SP, Betamax, Mini DV, DVD, and born-digital video formats.)
Transcription
TRANSCRIPTION: January twentieth nineteen eighty-one. We are not as some would have us. Believe doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us. No matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So with all the Creative Energy at our Command let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination our courage and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope we have every right to dream heroic beings. And after all why shouldn't we believe that we are Americans? It seems so long ago. Now in 1980 America looked as though she had been brought to her knees at home gas lines and astronomical energy costs with the order of the day inflation. At 13% Made Simple needs a luxury interest rates and reached unfinished. Couple 21 and a half pushing homeownership out of sight. For many around the world America had lost her standing as a world power and American lives were put in Jeopardy. The late 70s saw Russia move into Afghanistan Central America and Africa. While our nation's seemed powerless to defend against the crush of Communism for 444 days. The Ayatollah Khomeini. Old Americans hostage while at home our leaders talked of Human Rights tightening belts and turning down the thermostat which the future of every American child was in Jeopardy. A dark storm cloud spread across the land as our leaders wrung their hands and despair. I had a discussion with my daughter Aimee the other day before. I came here to ask about the most important issue was she said she thought nuclear weaponry. Then as so
Repository Details
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