,he made volunteerism for issue was chief supporter to her husband, Richard Nixon, and behind the scenes played club visor. , tonight at eastern on cspans original series first lady, influence and image. Examining the public and private lives of the women who felt the addition of first lady and their influence to the presidency. From Martha Washington to michelle obama. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Week, American History tv brings you archival films that bring context to todays issues. Up next from october 25, 1957, california governor Ronald Reagan speaks to an audience of 10,000 at a republican Fundraising Center in des moines, iowa. Although he was not an announced tentative at the time, he eventually became Richard Nixons chief rival for the iq 58 republican nomination. Receiving more popular votes than him in the primaries that finishing third in the delegate count behind Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon who went on to win the 1958 election. Here we are at the Republican Party love in. You have all been so kind and remembered all of the things to make me feel good. Which make me feel really good because there is something you could ever membered im glad you forgot. Here it is, 30 years later, and you have forgotten that when i was here before, i was a democrat. [laughter] democrats, they had a fundraising dinner in washington last week. 1000 a plate. The press reported that the president mingled. He wasnt mingling. He was counting. [laughter] i have never been able to understand how they can run a with the a profit country at such a loss. They democrats deny they used any pressure in getting people to buy those thousand dollar tickets. They didnt. They just turned them it was a new kind of payroll savings. Buy a ticket and save your place on the payroll. [laughter] [applause] it would be one way to make sure that crime doesnt pay. Let government run it. [laughter] i remove her way back in 1964 i remember way back in all the way with lbj. Now we know what he meant. [applause] it seems that i am picking unduly on the opposition. Please note that i am taking on the leadership of the democratic party. I am sure that there are millions of fine, patriotic members of that party who are deeply disturbed by what has taken place in the Nations Capital as we move from 1960 and the new frontier to the Great Society. They know that the Great Society is not the wave of the future, it is the end of an era, a dismal rehash of the methods and ,eligion philosophy of the past the dark depression days of the 30s. Civilian bureaus have multiplied like wire coat hangers in a closet. Federal employees have increased 2. 5 times as much as the increase in the population in the last eight years. The payroll has gone up 7. 5 times as much. Government spending has gone up a. 5 times as much. The federal government spends 425 million a year on public relations. To tell us how well they are treating us and how prosperous we are. Never have so few spent so much telling us so little. [applause] if you want to spend more than you are in, you use credit. There are many situations where that is justified. Emergency cases where we have to use credit to reestablish our former healthy likewise, we provide for an education. We start a new business, or improve, or expand a business. Things that are based on the sound hope that future income will be higher admits the e of credit. E you will not use credit just to live a life you cannot afford. The rules are the same for a nation, as they are for individuals. [applause] with the 2016 President Shall contest now in full swing, American History tv looks back at past