Video: Newt Gingrich’s 1986 Speech on Ronald Reagan’s Failures

“The Reagan administration has failed … Harry Truman accomplished vastly more”
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Politics • Mon Feb 6, 2012 at 12:05 pm PST • Views: 22,556

In the Republican debates, Newt Gingrich is always the first to invoke the hallowed name of Ronald Reagan, taking credit for helping Reagan implement the foreign policy initiatives that led to the fall of the Soviet Union.

Flashback to 1986, as Newt gives a floor speech blasting Ronald Reagan for the “failure” of his foreign policy initiatives, and praising Democratic President Harry Truman for accomplishing much more in the same time period.

(h/t: Andrew Kaczynski.)

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