Ronald Reagan was called “the Great Communicator”. Democrats would often say this dismissively, trying to say it was his acting skills that got people to like him, not the substance of what he was saying. President Reagan himself, however, said: “I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things ….”
Here is a case in point: President Reagan’s speech on June 6, 1984, the fortieth anniversary of the D-Day invasion, on “the Boys of Pointe du Hoc”:
First, look at the speech. He’s using note cards! But then listen to the speech. He’s talking about great things. There is a difference between being a great communicator and communicating great things. Ronald Reagan understood the difference.
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