Raw Footage of Ronald Reagan in Portland (Oregon)

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Know. You know. President. Our guests and Ladies and Gentleman Once again welcome to the University of Portland. The. European moment recognizing very special guests will be arriving with the president. We asked each stand to be recognized. A warm welcome for the United States are going to go out over there it was a. Great morning to you all. Thanks airs what happens believe me we

have a vibrant hopeful remarkably exciting and moral body of Americans striving toward our future with vigor. Couple. My you. LADY. John. I'm proud to present to you the man who has walked with us I. Was thanking God thank you. Now.

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Our Oh yeah. Thank you very much for a. Very. Warm welcome. You know what. Yeah you know what I mean just like. You racist facts. Are. It's wonderful to me. It is wonderful to be you know all right. And it's wonderful to be in the city of Los. Angeles. Very. Good. To be in the University of Portland Oregon right. Before. The new senator from here to the great spirit of our leaders in the fight

by the child's foundation. I want to thank you right off. For such a fine representative Sanders Mark Hatfield and Bob Packwood. Roach Congressman Bob Smith and Denny Schmidt who is with us here. They've all helped us so much and we're hoping that they'll stay in Washington for a long time and they need company so we hope that you will send your fine candidates there to be with each other man. I say you have one of the best governors in the country in Pick. Up. Mm. Hmm. I feel very much at home here partly because during the Republican Convention one of your state officials

offered to change the name of your state to American little. But I'm told. I'm told that. Your city has had an interesting history with regard to names that when the first settlers came here from the east they saw its possibilities as a beautiful port. They clear the area around here cut down the trees and made it tomahawk claim of the area and then they they chose to call it their own and one of the main settlers insisted the city be called Boston. Another insisted it be called Portland after Portland Maine. And they settled it in a very gentlemanly manner. They flipped a coin. And so Portland was born. I mean probably you probably have heard in kind of a contest not will be settled by the toss of a coin.

It'll be settled by the wisdom of good people like yourself feel a little. Your governor told you and I've been thinking to what has been accomplished these past four years and what we had to overcome to get where we are. And it reminded me that in 1862 Abe Lincoln gave us some enduring advice he gave Lincoln said. We must disenthrall ourselves with the past and then we will save our country. Well four years ago that's what we did. We made a great turn. We got out from under the thrall of the government which we had hoped would make our lives better but which wound up living our lives for us. The power of the federal government. Had over the decades created great chaos. Economic chaos social chaos

international chaos. Our leaders were adrift rudderless without a compass. And four years ago we began to navigate by certain fixed principles. Our North Star was freedom. And common sense without constellation. Little. We knew. We knew that he had nothing. Three men paying less of the American family's earnings to the government. And so we cut personal income tax rates by 25 percent. Before. We knew that it was ration the choir fees. Were stealing our SES and the highest interest rate since the Civil War. Were making it impossible for people to

own a home or start an enterprise. We knew that our national military defense had been weakened so we decided to rebuild and be strong again the field. Feel this we knew would hand the prospects for peace in the world. It was a Second American Revolution. And it's only just begun. But already has come over after. A great renewal. America is back. But a giant re-emerging on the sea. Powerful images reduce fears powerful Lucy running. Powerful in the world economy and powerful in its ability to defend itself and secure the peace before the field.

Each. Four years after our first began. Small voices in the night are sounding the call. Back. Over backward to the days of confusion and drift. The days of torpor timidity untaxed up of. Each of my opponents here is no mean human. Perhaps we can gain a greater insight into his leadership abilities and his philosophy. We take a look at his record. To begin with. His grasp of economics is well demonstrated by his economic projections. Just before we took office. My opponent said our economic program is quote Obviously murderously inflation. Now that was just before we lowered inflation

from above 12 percent to 4 percent. Before. Then just after our tax cuts he says the most that he could see was an anemic recovery. And that was right before our economy created more than 6 million new jobs in 21 months. And just before our record nearly 900000 businesses were incorporated in less than a year in their. Little. My opponent said that our policies would deliver a misery index the likes of which we haven't seen for a long time without a risk. There was some truth in that. You know you get the misery index by adding up the unemployment rate and the inflation rate.

Now they invented that for the 1976 campaign and they said that Gerry Ford had no right. To seek reelection because his misery index was twelve point six. Now they didn't mention the misery index in the 1980 campaign because it had gone up to more than 20 percent. Little. And they are talking too much about it in this campaign because it's down around 11. Atm. My opponent said the deep control of oil prices would cost American consumers more than 36 billion dollars a year. But one of the first things we did was control oil or oil prices and the price of gas went down eight cents a gallon and the prices are still heading down. Up which

you know just occurred to me that maybe all we have to do to get the economy absolutely in perfect shape is to get my opponent to predict an absolute disaster. Up now. Will it be. I must say though he's learned some things. My opponent is concerned now about the deficit. But back during the Jerry Ford years he proposed that the deficit should be doubled because of the deficit. It would stimulate the economy. Or little pieces he cares about the middle class. But he boasts quote I have consistently supported legislation time after time which increases taxes on my own constituents. Why doesn't that make you just want to be a constituent hears

her. Little he's. He's no doubt proud of the fact that he voted 16 times as a United States senator to increase taxes. This year he's outdone themselves. He's already promised of course to raise your taxes. But if he has to keep all the promises that he's made to this group and that he will have to raise taxes by the equivalent of one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars for every household in the United States. That's more than $150 a month. It's like having a second mortgage. And after the Mundial mortgage we'd be sure to have more than a few foreclosures. His economic plan. His economic you know I know I know concert baritone so I know those can be an echo of my voice. Or lower

lip. This economic plan has two basic parts. To raise taxes and raise them again. I've got news for him. The American people want his tax increases and he isn't going to get his. Tax. Plan. Would bring our recovery roaring. But I'm going to. Do this.