| The Great Communicator Vol 4: The Man | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 657 |
| Catalog #: | 494282 | |
| Clip Number: | 494282-8 | |
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| Timecode: | 01:28:30 - 01:30:11 | |
| Location: | Various | |
| Year Shot: | 1986 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Humor OCCUPATIONS: Politicians / Statesmen PERSONALITIES: Reagan, Ronald POLITICS: Public Address (Speech) | |
| Description: | March 10, 1986. Remarks at a Dinner for the Republican Congressional Leadership. Ronald Reagan telling a funny anecdote about a preacher sermonizing to the sleepy; Sen. BOB DOLE sits to his left. "... having been on the mashed-potato circuit in an earlier life, I know the danger of before-dinner speeches. Of course, there are pitfalls for every speaker. You know, there was a young minister, and one day he was asking for a little sympathy from an older, more experienced minister, when he said that some of those hot summer Sundays he would look out while he was preaching his sermon and the congregation would seem to be dozing off. And the older preacher said, ``Well, I know, I've had that experience, but,'' he said, ``I found an answer to it.'' He said, ``When that begins to happen in the middle of your sermon, you just interrupt and say, `I want you all to know that last night I held in my arms a woman who was another man's wife.' And,'' he said, ``that'll wake them up.'' [Laughter] ``And then,'' he says, ``you say to them, `And that woman was my dear mother.''' [Laughter] Well, time went by, and sure enough there was a Sunday and the young preacher was going at it. But they were beginning to doze off, and the kids were writing notes to each other, and some of the women were knitting, but mainly they were dozing off. And he remembered what he'd been told, so he said, ``I want you all to know that last night I held in my arms a woman who was another man's wife.'' And suddenly he was facing all those staring eyes, and everyone was awake. And he tried to continue, and he said, ``And that woman -- I forget who she was.'' [Laughter] | |
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