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Encyclopedia > A Time for Choosing

A Time for Choosing, also known as "The Speech", was presented on a number of speaking occasions during the 1964 U.S. presidential election campaign by (later President) Ronald Reagan on behalf of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.


Many versions of the speech exist, as it was altered during many stops, but two versions are most well known.

  • 1964 Republican National Convention - San Francisco, California - Given as a nomination speech for Goldwater.
  • As part of a pre-recorded program titled "Rendezvous with Destiny", broadcast on October 27, 1964.

Following the speech, Ronald Reagan was asked to run for Governor of California. To this day, this speech is considered one of the most effective ever made on behalf of a candidate. Reagan was later called "The Great Communicator" in recognition of his effective communication skills.




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A TIME FOR CHOOSING (The Speech – October 27, 1964) (4367 words)
At the same time, he submitted his own plan for the rebuilding of this area and the government sold him back his own property for 22 percent of what they paid.
But any time we question the schemes of the do-gooders, we are denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goal.
In the same period the cost of federal government has increased 234 times, and while the work force is only one and one-half times greater, federal employees number nine times as many.
Time Supplement [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (12749 words)
That is, time is a distinguished dimension of spacetime, not an arbitrary dimension.
Time dilation due to motion is relative in the sense that if your spaceship moves past mine so fast that I measure your clock to be running at half speed, then you will measure my clock to be running at half speed also, provided both of us are in inertial frames.
Choosing the atomic clock as standard is much simpler than choosing the periodic dripping of water from our goat skin bag or the period of a special pendulum or even the periodic revolution of the earth about the Sun.
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