Challenger: President Reagan's Challenger Disaster Speech - 1/28/86

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1. Reagan is a master at dealing with catastrophe.
2. its easy to see why america was better in the past. he is uniting. even me watching this i feel more american than ever. now days its more about "were different than you so you should feel bad becuase im not you and youre worse than me, because youre better than me, and you wont admit it, so ill admit it for you."
3. It's sad how after the Columbia, we did lose our heart, just like Reagan warned against. I can't think any of the people who gave their lives as part of the space program would be happy about that. :-/
4. Man why doesn't this get many views? This is something worth watching. All that people enjoy watching today are "vines," "MTVs" and they do not have the golden quality this has. Reagan has turned America into a new direction, and kids these days won't even know him because of the terrible stuff they're getting exposed too.
5. I've heard all sorts of things about Reagan, good and bad, but this brought me to tears, and solidifies my belief that he was a great man.
6. GREAT COMMUNICATOR CONFIRMED
7. Im here becouse of american dad
8. "The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave" President Ronald Reagan 1986. RIP Challenger crew, Ronnie, and Nancy
9. Presidents rarely show this much humanity.
10. After all these years it still brings me to tears
11. When I was a kid we used to make fun of his voice, but there is no doubt that he had exceptional oratorical skills, even among our Presidents. He really knew how to deliver his lines on an instinctive level.
12. Hint to O and HRC: Reagan spoke their NAMES. See the difference? He's talking WITH Americans not AT them. Hear the difference in the voice? In the tone? Note the lack of whining? Note the lack of CLICHES? Note how personal it is? Something you two would never be able to do. I cannot STAND to listen to the soulless repetition of cliched, trite, hackneyed 'statements' coming from the man in the WH or the woman who wants to continue his policies. We are in desperate need tonight – less than a week after Obama could not help himself and mentioned "I" 45 times in a 39-minute 'speech' at the Dallas officers' memorial. A few days after Nice. A month after Orlando.
13. You can tell a magnificent speech when you can listen to it decades later and it still has meaning.
14. I think this is the greatest Oval Office speech delivered in the television age. Look into Reagan's eyes, you believe him. No other president in my lifetime (beginning with JFK) projected that sincerity. Kennedy was an eloquent speaker, glib but not fully sincere. LBJ and Nixon always sounded like politicians. Ford was just lost. Carter spoke like he was smarter than everyone. Bush Sr. and Jr., pfft. Clinton: See LBJ and Nixon. Obama: sounds like a very polished lawyer.
15. America needs another Ronald Reagan. He was the last great president we've ever had. And, in my opinion, probably in the top 5 in the History of the United States.
    
    God Bless you, President Reagan, the Challenger Crew, and please watch over all of us from Heaven where you now are... amongst the face of God. God Bless You always.
16. Wow! This is a gift. What a speech. Tears.
17. I remember when this happened and the country was in shock from the realization that the astronauts and teacher Christa McAuliffe had died on this mission. What kind compassion Mr. Reagan had to even try and help school children process and understand what had happened! Most of all, this causes me to mourn how far this country has slipped toward oblivion in the short time since we had leadership like Ronald Reagan's. Now every tragedy is politicized instead of comfort being offered to the mourners. Watching these speeches from the not-so-distant past always causes me to mourn deeply the loss of the America that seems to be dying -- as this great man did -- of dementia.
18. back to the future wow I was like 13 years oil at the time my blessings to the familys
19. to slip the surely face of God.
20. learn the true value of good leadership God bless America