"These will be years when Americans have restored their confidence and tradition of progress; when our values of faith, family, work, and neighborhood were restated for a modern age; when our economy was finally freed from government's grip; when we made sincere efforts at meaningful arms reduction, rebuilding our defenses, our economy, and developing new technologies, and helped preserve peace in a troubled world; when Americans courageously supported the struggle for liberty, self-government, and free enterprise throughout the world, and turned the tide of history away from totalitarian darkness and into the warm sunlight of human freedom."
I just love that! I got married that year. My America was roaring economically, I felt pretty darn free. who knew it would all go down the tubes all kindler and gentler like-

you're just piling them up for LS tonight :)

you got a little religious on me, but
"If Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Mao had all gotten together to design the perfect villain they would wish to see in our White House, they could never have done a better job than this pile of foul dog excrement currently sticking to our country's shoe."
that made best line of the week, right there.

here is the entire speech-
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/...