After his election as president, Reagan lived in the upstairs White House private quarters, and he would quip that he was 'living above the store again'. In 1980, Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination and defeated the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter. Regarding a 'jurisdictional strike' going on for seven months at that time, Reagan testified:      The first time that this word 'Communist' was ever injected into any of the meetings concerning the strike was at a meeting in Chicago with Mr. William Hutchinson, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, who were on strike at the time. Reagan encouraged Congress to think of it as billions of new dollars spent in individual districts. If SDI worked, thousands of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles would be worthless — if launched, they could all be shot down. Gorbachev made it his highest priority to get Reagan to abandon SDI.Meanwhile, Reagan escalated the rhetoric. In his famous 1983 speech to religious fundamentalists, he outlined his strategy for victory.
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