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Also, notice that Reagan said some things that might be considered anathema in present-day GOP politics. He touted that he was an "officer of my labor union," calls America "nave, sometimes wrong," and speaking of coordination with Mexico and Canada, he said, "It is time we stopped thinking of our nearest neighbors as foreigners."

"It may take the next 100 years," Reagan said, "but we can dare to dream that at some future date a map of the world might show the North American continent as one in which the peoples and commerce of its three strong countries flow more freely across their present borders than they do today." (Bolding is ours.)

Reagan, like today's Republicans, called for cutting taxes for businesses. But In doing so, he argued that corporations are not people — unlike Mitt Romney and some current Indiana elected officials.

"Business is not a taxpayer," he said, adding, "Only people pay taxes."

Mostly Reagan's speech was an indictment of the federal government and planted the seeds for the modern Republican Party's ideology.

"The people have not created this disaster in our economy; the federal government has," Reagan said. "It has overspent, overestimated, and over regulated. It has failed to deliver services within the revenues it should be allowed to raise from taxes. ... The key to restoring the health of the economy lies in cutting taxes."

The video is also an indication of how much things have changed culturally. Notice this section on working women:

"Double-digit inflation has robbed you and your family of the ability to plan," he said. "It has destroyed the confidence to buy, and it threatens the very structure of family life itself, as more and more wives are forced to work in order to help meet the ever-increasing cost of living."

Times may change, but some things don't, like making subtle pitches to early states. Reagan, who was born in Illinois, and made his mark as a Hollywood movie star, also noted living in another place.

"For me," he said, "it has been as a boy growing up in several small towns in Illinois, as a young man in Iowa trying to get a start in the years of the great depression and later in California for most of my adult life." (Bolding again is ours.)

That's right — Iowa. Some traditions die hard.

For the record, Reagan lost the 1980 Iowa Republican caucuses to George H.W. Bush. Reagan wound up putting Bush on the ticket as his vice president.

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