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

President Reagan talks to the nation about the Challenger Disaster 1/28/86.

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[Bradley Payne]

Dear Lord, Please return soon... And if you're not going to do that... Please give us back Ronald Reagan.

[DrAlbertMeinheimer]

"My fellow Americans......" Reagan made Americans proud to be American.

[filmsensei]

Does anyone know if the last sentence of the speech "slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God" was Peggy Noonan or was he quoting a poem? Just curious.

[Trueconservative16]

why is that

[kommando81]

I did, twice...and I still regret it to this day.

[Matthew Tarpy]

Yeah, no, you're familiar with Peggy Noonan, I assume? She wrote this speech and the "Boys of Pointe du Hoc" speech.

[Hockeytown0001]

You know that Reagan wrote most of his speeches, right?

[Hugh Johnson]

Reagan had a great speech writer!

[Richard Bruno]

Ronald Reagan quoted from the poem "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee in his speech (written by Peggy Noonan) first and last lines from the poem High Flight: "Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth – Put out my hand and touched the Face of God."

[Lossiemouth Beach]

I would run through walls for that man.

[thenekom]

I was born in 1980, and when I was a little kid, I always thought for some reason that he was my uncle or something. Not sure why, but he always seemed so relatable, even though I wasn't old enough to understand politics at all. Whether you agree with his politics or not, you can't deny that he truly WAS a great communicator.

[SoJustCool]

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.