Ronald Reagan Campaigns for President, 1980 Pledging to make America great again, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan greets supporters at a senior citizens’ retirement community in Seal Beach, California. During his 1980 campaign, Reagan expressed the cardinal tenet of antigovernment conservatism: “Government is like a baby, an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
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