WTH: 60 Years Since “A Time for Choosing” and the Future of Reaganism. Peter Schweizer Explains

On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan launched his political career
with his “Time for Choosing” speech, a moment so famous it simply
became known as “The Speech.” Ushering in a new era of
conservatism, future President Reagan argued that Americans were
at a pivotal moment and had a choice to make: Did they want a
massive welfare state or lower taxes, government, and greater
capitalist innovation? To stand up to the enemies of freedom and
American ideals or let Communism spread across the world? To let
the government be run by elites or run by the people? On the
sixtieth anniversary of this speech, one thing is clear: Reagan’s
principles are timeless, and as relevant now as they were sixty
years ago.


Peter Schweizer is an investigative journalist and author of five
New York Times bestselling books. Peter is also the founder and
president of the Government Accountability Institute, host of The
Drill Down podcast, and was previously a consultant to the Office
of Presidential Speechwriting in the White House for President
George W. Bush. He is the author of Reagan's War: The Epic Story
of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism
(Knopf 2003).


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