Read the excerpt from President Ronald Reagan’s speech on the night before the 1980 presidential election. I believe we can emba
rk on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal. An era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government, that will make government again responsive to people, that will revitalize the values of family, work, and neighborhood and that will restore our private and independent social institutions. The tone of this speech could best be described as expressing a feeling of
Ronald Reagan in this speech expressed his dreams on what the United States could be like if he was elected president. The views he had were positive and said in such a way that he was optimistic about the future of the country.
When a person expresses optimism about the future, they do so with hope because hope is the feeling we get when we want something optimistic to happen in future.
