NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “This is the issue, whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution…”

“This is the issue, whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. The truth of those words rings true. And it is in that spirit that we move today to our reason for taking this time, as Members of the majority, to commemorate the fact that on February 6, the great communicator, indeed one of the greatest Presidents ever to serve in the Oval Office, Ronald Wilson Reagan, will turn 85 years of age. There are so many inspiring factors, when one looks at the life of Ronald Reagan and his life in public service, but I look to his earlier years. Indeed, many, to offer this personal note, have looked at my career, those pundits and would-be potentates of the fourth estate inside this beltway, as some have written of my stewardship in this Congress, my heavens, he is a sportscaster. Well, let the record show that Ronald Reagan began his working career on the air in radio, first at WOC Davenport and then WHO Des Moines and indeed, the bulk of his duties entailed sportscasting.”