and that is not just from bill clarke and george sherrills, but lou kent, the famous reagan biographer points that out. and it's one of the reasons why reagan, once he had experience with an issue, brought that experience with them into the future. the second thing that happened was that ron reagan, after he left being governor, made its decision that really was tremendously important and decided not to go into television. of course he had been, for years, and television, but he was offered the opportunity to appear on a weekly broadcast against some liberal talking about some topic or other. he said, i am afraid the public will get tired of me and television. and so he embarked upon the weekly radio addresses, hundreds and thousands of radio addresses that he gave over the years. he took a brief break when he ran for president first in 1976 and then resent those radiobroadcast as he continued on until he decided finally to run for president successfully in 1980. and in those addresses he covered the issues that he felt were important. to the american people, issues of foreign affairs,