Read the excerpt from President Ronald Reagan's
speech on the night before the 1980 presidential
election.
A popular novel of the '60s ended prophetically with its
description of a "kindly, pleasant, greening land about
to learn whether history still has a place for a nation
so strangely composed of great ideals and uneasy
compromise as she."
That is really the question before us tonight: for the
first time in our memory many Americans are asking:
does history still have a place for America, for her
people, for her great ideals? There are some who
answer "no"; that our energy is spent, our days of
greatness at an end, that a great national malaise is
upon us.
They say we must cut our expectations, conserve and
withdraw, that we must tell our children... not to
Which ideas from the excerpt would be most
appropriate to include in a summary? Select three
options.
Popular novels from the past often ask provocative
questions that are important to consider today.
O Many Americans have given up and say that the
nation is no longer great or a land of dreams.
John Wayne, nicknamed Duke, was an iconic
Hollywood actor and filmmaker.
President Reagan believed that John Wayne would
argue that he was not the last American hero,
because there are many more.
Duke Wayne died as a symbol of the Hollywood
dream industry