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Conservative media take note: Reagan preached tax cut gospel to America’s students
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| Contributor | WesternDem |
| Last Edited | WesternDem Sep 03, 2009 04:02pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Matt Gertz |
| News Date | Thursday, September 3, 2009 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Putting aside possible ulterior motives, the conservative freak-out over President Obama’s planned speech to students urging them to stay in school and work hard is due to fears that Obama will use his platform as an opportunity to push his agenda on unsuspecting students. Ironically, that’s exactly what President Reagan did two decades ago.
On November 14, 1988, Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. According to press secretary Marvin Fitzwater, the speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “t o schools nationwide on three different days.” Much of Reagan’s speech that day covered the American “vision of self-government” and the need “to keep faith with the unfinished vision of the greatness and wonder of America” but in the middle of the speech, the president went off on a tangent about the importance of low taxes: |
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