GK: Going back years and years, Americans have trusted men from the Midwest. Men such as Jimmy Stewart of Indiana -- (TR: " Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community..")...And John Wayne of Iowa -- (TR: " You gotta learn right and you gotta learn fast. And any man that doesn't want to cooperate, I'll make him wish he had never been born.")... Ronald Reagan of Illinois. -- (TR: "America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere.) and Jesse The Body Ventura of Minnesota(If I wanna be president, I probably can. I think we need a pro wrestler in the White House.") And Harry Smith of Illinois, star of many radio serials including Brent Baxter, Crime-Fighting Cropduster (LOW-FLYING PLANE, INTERIOR)
HS: Those guys with the rifles ducking down into the corn -- we'd better investigate, Rex (PLANE INTO DIVE, DOG BARK)
GK: And later the star of Brick Buckley, Free-Lance Copy Editor.
HS: The town of Littleton will never get a new water tower unless I'm able to correct the grammatical errors in this grant application, Rex. Get me a sharpened pencil. And hurry. (DOG BARK)
GK: And later, the star of Buck Bixby, Boy Broadcaster -- (MORSE CODE)
HS: The station went off the air when the tree fell on the studio, Rex, but thank goodness the FCC requires a broadcaster to know Morse Code, so I can get word to the authorities that you and I are trapped inside this transmitter. (DOG BARK)
GK: His was a voice that the American people came to trust implicitly and inevitably that led him into commercial broadcasting where he used that trust for mere monetary gain......
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