RONALD REAGAN PART FIVE: THE 1976 CONVENTION
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. |
| 0:06.9 | All right, we've got Simon on the line. |
| 0:08.7 | Simon, young people, they're just all a bit, a bit lazy, aren't they? |
| 0:13.5 | What are you for? |
| 0:14.1 | Good morning. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to McDonald's. |
| 0:15.5 | Have you get the six minutes, please. |
| 0:16.7 | Some say young people are work shy, but at McDonald's, we hired 47,000 of them last year. |
| 0:23.6 | Like George here, who keeps things running during a Friday rush. |
| 0:29.7 | Resilience, making it happen at McDonald's. |
| 0:35.0 | I think if there's any moment that sums up the 1976 GOP convention in Kansas City. |
| 0:42.4 | It's the image of a giant deflated balloon of an elephant, sitting in the parking lot of the Kemp Arena, |
| 0:51.3 | where the convention was being held. |
| 0:53.6 | They tried to bring it into the arena. |
| 0:56.1 | They wanted it to fly high in the air above the delegates, |
| 0:59.6 | a symbol of a united, strong party. |
| 1:03.8 | But it had gotten punctured on the way in, |
| 1:07.1 | and it was too big to move. |
| 1:41.3 | Music and it was too big to move. Must have been a hard call, dialing up the president of the United States to tell him a member of your own party that you'd rather have his job. |
| 1:46.9 | But if anyone could do that call, it was the now former governor of California Ronald Reagan, calling the president Gerald Ford. If it could have happened in any year, |
| 1:54.1 | it would have been 1976. The president was the first ever before since to not be elected as either president or vice president. |
| 2:04.2 | And Reagan, to hear former Secretary of the Air Force and his campaign worker in the 60s Tom C. retail it, |
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