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Description: Here's a political ad from GOP Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, which ran four days before the election. Here he speaks about the need to maintain a "margin of safety" to preserve the peace in the world through more than one means - economic, through alliances among other nations, and militarily.

Ending voiceover by Robert Stack (yes, folks, the Robert Stack of The Untouchables, Unsolved Mysteries and "Airplane!" fame).

Paid for and authorized by Reagan/Bush Committee - U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt, Chairman; Bay Buchanan, Treasurer.

"History has taught us all too well, that tyrants are tempted only when the forces of freedom are weak, not when they're strong."

This aired on local Atlanta TV (and transmitted to Chicago via cable) on Friday, October 31st 1980.