over the years he read something he would like, out of a magazine or heard somebody is a told him a joke. he also had a lot with just with rubber bands around them, stacks of them. if he knew he would have a speech to give to a group of firemen in california and had a joke about a fireman, he would rifle through, get it, and stick it in that pocket. it's what i think all politicians speak, when you call the rubber chicken circuit, but reagan was good at it, because he always delivered humor and a couple poignant moments. people liked to hear him talk. >> it's all practice he did all those ge speeches all those years in the '50s. he knew how to talk to regular