[Such was Reagan's belief in the power of radio that in the 1970s he turned down an offer to be a commentator on CBS television and instead opted for two and a half minutes of daily syndicated radio commentary.] His thinking was that he wanted to leave the impression of the commentary, rather than of a talking head, ... He thought the substance was going to last longer.
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[Such was Reagan's belief in the power of radio that in the 1970s he turned down an offer to be a commentator on CBS television and instead opted for two and a half minutes of daily syndicated radio commentary.] His thinking was that he wanted to leave the impression of the commentary, rather than of a talking head, ... He thought the substance was going to last longer.
We don't have a national leader -- Reagan was the last one. I think if Republicans keep talking about finding another Reagan they make a mistake, because you might not find one for a hundred years.
He needed to reassure us on the economy, and reassure people there is a future they can be positive about. People have been saying no to that question everyone asks ? 'Am I going to be better off a year from now than I am today?' ? and that has been going on for the past two or three years.
It's something that now, with instant communications, we really want from a president. It's something that the national psyche needs when there's a disaster, a threat, a trauma. We want somebody there to tell us we will survive, we will get through it. It's like I used to say of Reagan, he was America, and America was him. That's what we want.
[During the Gulf War, in early 1991, the news coverage was so laudatory that a former media strategist for President Reagan was ecstatic.] If you were going to hire a public relations firm to do the media relations for an international event, ... it couldn't be done any better than this is being done.
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This quote is just one of 9 total Michael Deaver quotes in our collection. Michael Deaver is known for saying '[Such was Reagan's belief in the power of radio that in the 1970s he turned down an offer to be a commentator on CBS television and instead opted for two and a half minutes of daily syndicated radio commentary.] His thinking was that he wanted to leave the impression of the commentary, rather than of a talking head, ... He thought the substance was going to last longer.' as well as some of the following quotes.