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To: bentway who wrote (467890)	4/1/2009 6:58:47 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1578093

Reagan was the greatest speaker and communicator thats ever been in the Oval Office. Sure he used speechwriters like very President. He also chose his material and directed their work. He relied on note cards primarily, btw, not a teleprompter, though he could use that too.

To: bentway who wrote (467890)	4/1/2009 7:04:11 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1578093

But then one of the most amazing and emotional moments I’ve ever witnessed in politics occurred. Ford, accepting the nomination, gave the best speech of his entire life. But that’s not the moment I’m referring to. It came when Reagan, asked by Ford to say a few words, went to the podium. Ford and his allies expected Reagan to look like a loser, a humiliated foe. He didn’t once he began speaking. I now know from Craig Shirley that Reagan spoke without notes. But it didn’t seem like that was the case at the time. I thought Reagan, because he was so clear in what he was saying, must be reciting the text of what would have been his acceptance speech had he won the nomination. The audience - 15,000 people or so - was rapt. Some were weeping. Nobody got up. The arena was still. And Reagan was eloquent. It was obvious the delegates were his, both the Reaganites and the Ford delegates. The Ford people were locked into backing an incumbent president of their party. But their hearts were with Reagan. In the time it took for Reagan to speak, the Republican party escaped the clutches of its moderate establishment and fell into Reagan’s lap. He lost the nomination, but won the party -- and ultimately the presidency, the country, and the world. ..... reagansrevolution.com .... Weeks earlier, I’d seen Reagan drop his note cards on the floor at a luncheon speech in Joliet, Illinois, then fail to get them back in the right order. His speech that day was dreary and incoherent. He looked like a loser. But in Texas, a different Reagan had stepped front and center, the Reagan we came to know as president and world leader. reagansrevolution.com Reagan carried a pack of note cards in his suit pocket with a rubber band around them. Thats what he typically spoke from.