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Article: Uncivil liberties. (Ronald Reagan, movie Knute Rockne, All American column)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- November 8, 1986
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UNCIVIL LIBERTIES.
Most people don't know that the real George Gipp--the George Gipp of "win one for the Gipper' fame, the George Gipp played by Ronald Reagan in Knute Rockne, All American--is still alive. That's right.
Yes, I realize that in the movie George Gipp died, so that coach Knute Rockne could invoke the name of the Gipper in the great halftime pep talk that inspired Notre Dame to go out there and wipe up the field with what had been up to then a pretty rugged Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute eleven. But not everything they say in movies is true. That's right. In real life--now that we're being absolutely factual about all of this--Notre Dame ...
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