On February 23, 1980, Ronald Reagan delivered one of the most iconic lines in American political history during a crucial debate in Nashua, New Hampshire, just before the primary election. The debate was initially arranged as a one-on-one contest between the primary frontrunners, Reagan and George H. W. Bush, but Reagan’s campaign broadened the event by inviting all the other Republican candidates to participate, a decision that angered the local newspaper sponsor and the debate’s organizer. Whe