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Article: Silver Screen to White House; President Drew on His Entertainer's Training.(Ronald Reagan )(Biography)
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- The World and I
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- August 1, 2004
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Gary Arnold is film critic for The Washington Times.
It was a line straight out of an old movie, but hardly anyone knew that at the time.
"I paid for this microphone, Mr. Green," presidential candidate Ronald Reagan thundered at debate moderator Jon Breen, getting his name wrong, that February night in 1980 in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Breen had instructed sound technicians to turn off Reagan's mike because he had brought along four other Republican candidates to what was billed as a two-man debate between him and George Bush.
Reagan came across as a champion of free speech, open debate, and all things healthily American. Nothing Bush ...