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Highlights of the 1981 inauguration of President Ronald Reagan were shown courtesy of NBC. This was the first inauguration held at the Capitol’s West Front.

President Ronald Reagan’s speech on the Challenger disaster and President George W. Bush’s speech on the Columbia disaster. Robert Crippen talked about the space program.

President Richard Nixon talked with advisors about foreign policy issues, including Vietnam, the Middle East and India and Pakistan, as well as conversations about the defense budget and leg…

Former Governor Ronald Reagan (R-CA) and former CIA director George H.W. Bush participated in a debate for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. The debate took place in Houston, Texa…

President Ronald Reagan delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. He talked about the values of work, family, religion and freedom. He set out several objectiv…

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was presented as a gift to the American people. The career of former President Reagan was reviewed by the speakers. The library will be the future buri…

Former presidents, congressional leaders, family and friends gathered to honor the 37th president. Those eulogizing the former president included former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, S…

The Oval Office was discussed from an historical perspective. Several clips were shown to depict the changes that the Oval Office has gone through. The Oval Office was first designed at the …

In a religious funeral service for President Ronald Reagan, current and former world leaders and U.S. presidents gathered to pay their respects. Eulogies were given by former President Georg…

The Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library dedication. The $25 million complex included the former president’s birthplace home. It is a private library unlike other presidential libraries and…

C-SPAN showed the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan in 1985, which took place in the Capitol Rotunda on January 21, 1985. A private swearing-in was held the previous day at the White Hous…

Republican members of Congress and other figures in the Republican party advocated the party’s potential during a fund-raising dinner in honor of the four living former Republican presidents…

President George H.W. Bush called former President Ronald Reagan “an American original” and his “mentor” in remarks made at a ceremony to grant President Reagan the Presidential Medal of Fre…

President George H.W. Bush spoke at a Bush/Quayle campaign rally. Speaking outside under the California sun, President Bush criticized Democratic presidential nominee Governor Bill Clinton’s…

C-SPAN In the Classroom “Short Subject: Gives Teachers and Students an inside look of Government and Public Affairs. This Short Subject was on "The State of the Union Address.” A Historian, …

President George H. W. Bush and former President Ronald Reagan spoke to reporters in the White House Rose Garden on President Reagan’s stance on gun control. Shortly before President Reagan …

President Ronald Reagan and others addressed the Heritage Foundation in a farewell tribute to Congressman Jack Kemp.

President Ronald Reagan welcomed the President-Elect George H.W. Bush and the Vice President-Elect Dan Quayle to the White House during a ceremony in the Rose Garden.

President Reagan and V.P. Bush spoke at a Victory 88 Campaign Rally.

From the Bell Chase Naval air station in downtown New Orleans. Vice president George Bush and Ronald Regan crossed paths