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The Michael Berry Show

Sunday Bonus Podcast - Ronald Reagan's Tribute To Conservativism 1985

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.0

Guaranteed Human

0:08.0

I look at a great many familiar faces and I'm delighted that you're all here today.

0:14.0

And I want to ask you back when the conservative movement consisted of a few outspoken senators and representatives and a couple of after-dinner speakers,

0:24.6

who ever thought that the White House would my first byline in human events in 1961.

0:55.0

I hardly have to recite for you the human events story.

0:59.0

As a matter of fact, I'm old enough to go back to when human events was about newsletter

1:04.0

size.

1:05.0

Hadn't grown up to be a tabloid size paper.

1:09.0

But that remarkable 40th anniversary issue does a wonderful job of saying

1:15.2

all that needs to be son. The articles there by your founders Frank Hannigan and James Wick

1:20.6

and by notables like Douglas MacArthur, Barry Goldwater, Herbert Hoover, Bill Buckley, as well as page

1:27.1

after page of tributes from important

1:28.9

American political figures. All of this is a remarkable testimony not only to the extraordinary

1:35.4

journalistic enterprise that is human events, but to the strength of the ideas that human

1:42.0

events has always advocated. individual opportunity, limited government,

1:47.0

free markets, traditional values, and the moral imperative of resisting totalitarianism and furthering

1:55.7

the cause of freedom. America has seen enormous changes in the last few years, politically, intellectually, and culturally,

2:03.6

all in the direction of those ideas that you've stood for for so long and so bravely.

2:09.6

And I'm sure when historians look to find the underlying reasons for such change,

2:14.6

they're going to focus on human events and all the remarkable

2:18.2

people that have been associated with you over the years. A new film that's out,

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