"Reagan Speaks to Children" - Reagan, Ronald Wilson - [Republican], 1980

TRANSCRIPT: This is awfully nice of you to come here. I know you probably got things you'd much rather be doing on a nice afternoon like this but I don't get very many chances to talk to young people anymore with what I'm doing. So this is a great pleasure for me. And I'm going to start by hoping that they've got some questions. They would like to ask with regard to the election. Yes if you're elected how can you help my mother and children? Well the government is taking on an average about 44 cents. Out of every dollar that is earned in this country by the people who work and earn their living. The result is with the high prices of inflation with a government taking more money in taxes. Your parents are finding harder and harder to buy the clothes. You're wearing to put the food on the table that you need. Keep you well and healthy. And I think maybe the The first thing is to reduce those taxes. To take the actions that will get rid of inflation. And to take the economic actions that will put the people back to work that are unemployed. Right now. There are 8 million people in the United States who don't have jobs people who want to work who have an ability to give in producing things in our country. They certainly shouldn't be told that there's no to work for them. What qualities? Do you think a president should have what? Qualities should a present have? Well