Ronald Reagan actually said...

I call on the Congress to support this bipartisan program, a program that combines vigorous arms control with the modernization of our strat...

John Ashbrook knew that the first duty of public life is to responsibly speak the truth—even if the moment's fashion is against that truth.

He warned against 'unbridled national power with a resultant loss of individual freedom and local autonomy.'

It was never quite possible to say of John Ashbrook that he was typical—even though he was very much one of a breed of Midwestern Congressme...