Throwback Thursdays

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.