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