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As a Governor I had the honor of working with the Reagan Administration to write the last welfare reform bill back in 1988. In the last two years we made a good start in continuing the work of welfare reform.
State of the Union Address Ronald Reagan January 27, 1987 Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, distinguished Members of Congress, honored guests, and fellow citizens: May I congratulate all of you who are Members of this historic 100th Congress of the United States of America.
General Johnston and I then again went over the whole ground, and Breckenridge confirmed what he had said as to the uneasiness of the Southern officers and soldiers about their political rights in case of surrender. While we were in consultation, a messenger came with a parcel of papers, which General Johnston said were from Mr. Reagan, Postmaster-General.
This doctrine reinforces American advantages in strategic mobility, prepositioning, technology, training, and in fielding integrated military systems to provide and retain superiority, and responds to the minimum casualty and collateral damage criteria set first in the Reagan Administration.
And when we got it, we were going to drive up to the Galt House that's the Home for Poor and Proud Ladies and ask for Mrs. Reagan, who was to be in it in the third floor back, and leave her some old clothes with the buttons off, and old magazines. None of us could bear Mrs. Reagan not a single one. It is a beautiful house, Mrs. Reagan's is.
And then comes this ruling of the polis driving people out o' their comfortable homes to sleep in parks 'twas for all the world like a ukase of them Russians 'twill be heard from again at next election time. "Well, then, Officer Reagan drives the whole lot of us to the park and turns us in by the nearest gate.
He sank over the rail, and was grasped by one of the enlisted men, named Reagan, who lifted him up and placed him on the deck. The young officer, realising that the wound was fatal, and that he had only a short time to live, allowed no murmur of complaint or cry of pain to escape him, but opened his eyes, stared at the sailor, and simply said: “Thank you, Reagan.”
It is amusing to see Culberson and Crane making a house of refuge of the coat tails of Reagan. "He approved it! he approved it!" Of course he approved it Attorney General Crane "not having time during his term of office to prosecute all the cases." But he'll "have time" just as hard to spend half of next year chasing the governorship on time paid for by the people.
Especially, I recall two who struggled to fight that cold war in partnership with Congresses where the majority was of a different party. To Harry Truman, who summoned us to unparalleled prosperity at home and who built the architecture of the cold war. And to Ronald Reagan, whom we wish well tonight, and who exhorted us to carry on until the twilight struggle against Communism was won.
"Have you been playing policy?" asked a third. "You're all wrong," said Dick Rafferty. "Frank's been adopted by a rich man upon Madison avenue. Aint that so, Frank?" "Something like it," said Frank. "There's a gentleman up there who has been very kind to me." "If he wants to adopt another chap, spake a good word for me," said Patsy Reagan.
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