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Ronald Reagan spoke at the first CPAC gathering in 1974. Here’s what he said
Before he was a twice-elected president, then-California Gov. Ronald Regan spoke to the inaugural Conservative Political Action Conference about unity and American’s divine charge.
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John Raoux, Associated Press
For 47 years, many American conservatives have met annually to regroup and realign the modern Republican Party at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which is meeting this weekend in Orlando, Florida.
In its inaugural year, on Jan. 25, 1974 months before a Republican president would resign in fear of impeachment CPAC attendees heard California Gov. Ronald Reagan urge them to remain united, as the Founding Fathers had, and that America’s responsibility as a world leader had been blessed by God.