Reagan's Greatest Address

Some years ago I purchased a boxed set of six CDs containing complete Presidential addresses, one from each President of the United States since recordings began -- starting with William Howard Taft. The set includes such addresses as Harry Truman's fiery acceptance speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention; Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address; Gerald Ford's remarks upon being sworn in as President following Richard Nixon's resignation; Jimmy Carter's much-maligned "malaise" speech (in which he doesn't use the word "malaise"), and others.

President Reagan is represented on this set by what The New York Times said might have been "Ronald Reagan's finest oratorical hour": his address to students and faculty at Moscow State University, delivered on May 31, 1988. It is a very fine address indeed, and I had hoped to record it as an MP3 and make it available for a short time here, but the file ended up being simply too massive even at the lowest standard of compression I could use and still keep the thing listenable. (Even at 64 kbps, the resulting file was more than 13 mb. I don't have enough webspace for a file of that size.)

Failing that, the speech can be read here.