How Ronald Reagan's minions referred to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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18. Check out the code sprinkled throughout his announcement at Philadelphia, Mississippi...

Transcript of Ronald Reagan's 1980 Neshoba County Fair speech

The Neshoba Democrat

EXCERPT...

I believe that there are programs like that, programs like education and others, that should be turned back to the states and the local communities with the tax sources to fund them, and let the people [applause drowns out end of statement].

I believe in [font color="red"]state's rights[/font color]; I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level and at the private level. And I believe that we've distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended in the constitution to that federal establishment. And if I do get the job I'm looking for, I'm going to devote myself to trying to reorder those priorities and to restore to the states and local communities those functions which properly belong there.

I'm going to try also to [font color="red"]change federal regulations in the tax structure[/font color] that has made this once powerful industrial giant in this land and in the world now with a lower rate of productivity than any of the other industrial nations, with a lower rate of savings and investment on the part of our people and put us back where we belong.

SNIP...

And those young people (U.S. Olympians who could not compete in Moscow due to the U.S. boycott), those competitors, came to their feet with a roar and a cheer that just sent shivers down my spine. They know what they've done; they're willing to make the sacrifice, and I think this country of ours is going to be in pretty [font color="red"]safe hands[/font color] from here on out.

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PS: Doubt Pruneface thought twice about Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller getting benched from the 1936 U.S. Olympic team so USOC prez Avery Brundage could kiss Adolf Hitler's ass.