The Presidency

Inaugural Address                                January 20, 1981

Assignment #7

"We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it  crosses party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, tech our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick-professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people", this breed called Americans".

What Reagan was saying in the above quote in my eyes was that, special interest groups have been neglected long enough in America. He explain how those who are within theses special interest groups can be anyone of any race, gender and religion other hand known as the American Citizen are the one taking care of the homes and streets of other civilian. Since he was against FDR during the time, I believed he uses his confidence in Americas to take power out of Washington and return it to the states and the people. 

I selected this part of the passage because here Ronald Reagan Spoke about Housewives who don't get paid just do their part in order to keep their family in order. I also sleeted this passage because Reagan was very cleaver with his choice of words. It is a reality of the people who are citizen of the American country that do more than labor from their job description.