Words To Live By Podcast

In the week’s podcast, we start with remarks by President Reagan and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles of Dominica announcing the deployment of United States Forces in Grenada.

In this week’s podcast we listen to President Reagan’s 1985 State of the Union Address, which carried this theme, "Prouder, stronger, better."

In this week’s podcast, we go to President Reagan’s first address to the nation – this one on the economy – which he delivered via TV broadcast on February 5, 1981. 

In this week’s podcast, we go back to January 29, 1981 for President Reagan’s first news conference.  It began at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in room 450 of the Old Executive Office Building.  It was broadcast live on radio and television

In this week’s podcast, we go back to January 28, 1986, as President Reagan addressed the nation on this unspeakable tragedy.

In this weeks "Words to Live By" we go to January 20, 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in as our nation’s 40 president. The Inaugural was an emotional experience but then the very next day it was “down to work.”

In this week’s podcast, we combine President Reagan’s passion for education with his passion for equal rights when he spoke to the students and faculty at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School on January 15, 1986.   

In this weeks episode of "Words to Live By", on December of 1985, just a month after their Geneva meeting, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to record a joint New Year’s Message – one that would play over the radio in both the United States and the Soviet Union.  President Reagan recorded his half at 9am on December 28th from the Century Plaza Hotel in los Angeles.  It was actually broadcast via television at 1pm on January 1st in the Soviet Union.

We’ll start today’s podcast by listening to President Reagan’s 1983 Radio Address to the Nation on the Celebration of Christmas.

In this week’s podcast we go back to December 16, 1988 when President Reagan delivered remarks on Foreign Policy and participated in a question and answer session at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. 

In this week’s podcast we go back to December 8, 1987, the historic day when President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed the INF Treat at the White House.

In this weeks Words to Live By, President Reagan addresses the Annual Convention of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in New York City, on December 12, 1983.

In this week’s podcast we feature the steadfast relationship between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher did more than just sit across from each other as government heads. They became allies and they became friends.

In this week’s podcast we celebrate Thanksgiving by revisiting two of President Reagan's radio addresses.

In this week’s podcast we honor our nation’s Veterans.  To the veterans listening today, we thank you for your honor, for your bravery and for your dedication to our country and its freedom.  We salute all of you. 

In this week’s podcast, we look back 27 years ago to the grand opening of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on November 4, 1991.  Five U.S. Presidents and six first ladies gathered for the opening ceremonies – the first time in history that that many US Presidents had ever gathered together before. 

In this week’s podcast, we present the October 28, 1980 Presidential Debate between Governor Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter. 

In this week’s podcast, we present the October 21, 1984 Presidential Debate between President Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale. 

While campaigning for reelection in 1984, President Reagan embarked on a Whistlestop Tour of Ohio onboard the famous Ferdinand Magellan.  The one-day trip on October 12, 1984 took President Reagan 120 miles, with stops in Dayton, Ottawa, Deshler and Perrysburg. 

In this week’s podcast, we look at two speeches. The first was delivered on October 5, 1988, during remarks at the site of the future Holocaust Memorial Museum.  The second was delivered on April 20, 1982 during a day of remembrance for Holocaust victims.