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Welcome to the web home of the New Hampshire Reagan Network.

Our mission is to advocate and advance the principles of the New Hampshire Republican Platform in the spirit of Ronald Reagan. We will preserve and protect these principles by encouraging citizens who believe in the core values of the Platform--low taxes, less government, personal responsibility, family values and personal liberties---to run for legislative office in the Republican Primary.

The NH Reagan Network will present briefing papers and train potential candidates on the important issues of the state in the context of the governing principles as spelled out in the Platform.

Potential Candidates who meet the criteria of the NH Reagan Network will also have the opportunity to attend campaign and issue training academies.

Our Evening with the Secretary was a great event! Thank you to all who attended.

The New Hampshire Ronald Reagan Dinner

"An Evening with the Secretary"

The New Hampshire Reagan Network honored

J. William Middendorf II

The Former Secretary of the Navy and Ambassador was the featured speaker at our annual dinner on Friday, June 13th at the Radisson in Manchester.

Ambassador Middendorf has played a unique role in the modern history of the Republican Party. He was the campaign treasurer and member of the inner circle for Senator Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. He has recently authored "A Glorious Disaster", an insider's account of that campaign.

He served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations as Secretary of the Navy, Ambassador to the Netherlands, U.S. Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) and U. S. Representative to the European Community.

He also served as treasurer of the Republican National Committee, was a founding member, with the late William F. Buckley Jr., of the American Conservative Union (ACU) and is a trustee of the Heritage Foundation. He is the founder of the Marine Corps Marathon and the winner's trophy is named in his honor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._William_Middendorf

Dinner Tickets are $50.00 per person

general reception at 6:30 , Dinner is at 7:00

Join Ambassador Gerald Carmen and Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Petrone at a VIP reception for Ambassador Middendorf. $500 includes the reception and dinner for two. VIP reception is at 6:00 pm.

The NH Reagan Network hosted THREE excellent 2-day campaign schools this summer and trained dozens of candidates for the NH House.

The campaign schools were structured for candidates who embody the principles of the NH Republican platform.

The NH Reagan Network welcomes the NH Advantage Coalition as our new co-tenant at 134 North Main Street in Concord!

http://www.thenhadvantage.com/

The Democrats DID WHAT?

A GREAT GRAND OPENING!!!!

The NH Reagan Network held the grand opening celebration of our offices at 134 North Main Street in Concord on Wednesday June 27th from 4-7 pm. Over a hundred people attended the event including many of the Republican NH Legislators when they finished their work at the last session day of the year.

some of the Reagan Republicans.....

Former US Senator Gordon Humphrey presents Reagan award to State Senator Sheila Roberge

Link to Reagan's "I paid for this microphone" at 1980 Nashua, NH debate (also see Bob Molloy clip on "turn off his mike"

The first Ronald Reagan "I paid for this microphone" award dinner was a great sell out success!

Held June 4th, 2007 at the Radission in Manchester

The Dinner was an exciting nostalgic trip down primary memory lane! The exchange over the microphone at the Debate in Nashua became one of the most pivotal moments in the campaign. Former Ambassador Gerry Carmen and Former Representative Dan Hughes gave memorable accounts of their personal experiences that night with Ronald Reagan.

Reagan later recounted the incident as a "brief and seemingly small event, one lasting only a few seconds," that he said he thought, "helped take me to the White House." He continues:

"When the Nashua Telegraph offered to sponsor a debate between the two of us on the Saturday evening preceding the election, we both accepted. Understandably, this brought howls from the other candidates. In protest, one of them, Senator Bob Dole, complained to the Federal Elections Commission that by financing a debate between only two of the seven candidates, the newspaper was making an illegal campaign contribution to the Bush and Reagan campaigns. The commission agreed with him, so my campaign offered to pay the full cost of the debate - a few thousand dollars - and they accepted. I thought it had been unfair to exclude the other candidates from the debate."

After arriving at the debate, he found two chairs - one for him and frontrunner George H.W. Bush, and himself. The other candidates were confused, as was the audience.

"I decided I should explain to the crowd what the delay was all about and started to speak. As I did, an editor of the Nashua newspaper shouted to the sound man, "Turn Mr. Reagan's microphone off." Well, I didn't like that - we were paying the freight for the debate and he was acting as if his newspaper was still sponsoring it. I turned to him, with the microphone still on, and said the first thing that came to my mind: "I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Breen." (sic) Well, for some reason my words hit the audience, whose emotions were already worked up, like a sledgehammer. The crowd roared and just went wild. I may have won the debate, the primary - and the nomination - right there."

President and First Lady Nancy Reagan

Some principles to think about.....

“Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure…” ~Ronald Reagan on receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, The White House, January 1993

I. Free Exercise of Inalienable God-given Rights- “Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.” ~Thomas Jefferson

II. Secure Borders and Superior Defense- “America seeks no new territory, nor do we wish to dominate others. We commit our resources and risk the lives of those in our Armed Forces to rescue others from bloodshed and turmoil and to prevent humankind from drowning in a sea of tyranny.” ~Ronald Reagan

III. Protection of Human Life- “Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is. And, thus, it should be entitled to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” ~Ronald Reagan

IV. Return to Constitutional Justice- “Since the politicization of the law has, for half a century, moved results steadily to the Left, a very large number of Americans do not like those outcomes. Increasingly, they are not deceived by the claim that those results are compelled by the actual Constitution.” ~Robert Bork

V. Safe-Guarding of American Sovereignty- “I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s, and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.” ~Daniel Webster

VI. Preservation of Traditional Family and Marriage- “Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.” ~Ronald Reagan

VII. Conservation of Free Markets and Private Property- “I believe that each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other man’s rights.” ~Abraham Lincoln

VIII. Minimized Taxation and Limited Government- “A power in the individuals who compose legislatures, to fish up wealth from the People, by nets of their own weaving… will corrupt legislative, executive, and judicial public servants.” ~John Adams

IX. Market-based Education, Health-care, Energy and Environment- “The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal sharing of blessings; whereas the virtue of socialism is that it stands for the equal sharing of misery.” ~Winston Churchill

X. Transparency and Accountability in Government- “The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” ~Thomas Jefferson

(principles as expressed on The Reagan Wing)

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