On the occasion of it's attempted reenactment by Boehner & Co, the 10 minute long ur-speech from exactly 50 years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
In it's own way it's a pleasure to listen to. What a beautiful voice this man had; it was more than half his power. And you can hear in this speech that they aren't making up this idea that they are all his descendents -- not the Reagan of 1980, but the Reagan of 1960. His was the DNA, and it's been deteriorating by feeble cloning through the half century since. He sounds like sweet reason saying the same thing that sounds like Bedlam coming from Beck.
Michael