• We begin bombing in five minutes The audio leaked to the public Problems playing this file? See media help. "We begin bombing in five minutes" is the...
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    of the 1984 Winter Olympics in episode 1 and the coverage of Ronald Reagan's "We begin bombing in five minutes" joke in episode 13. Keri Russell as Elizabeth...
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  • Records label in 1984. The song begins with the recording made of then-US-President Ronald Reagan's "We begin bombing in five minutes" joke speech, which...
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    "Dirty Talk" in 1985, with the "Bombing Mix" gaining some popularity due to the use of Ronald Reagan's infamous "We begin bombing in five minutes" off-the-record...
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    with the same words. Kuzma's mother Shoe-banging incident We begin bombing in five minutes ""We Will Bury You!"". Time. November 26, 1956. Archived from...
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    that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." Though many people had heard of the joke, most had never...
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  • mic gaffe occurred in 1984, when U.S. President Ronald Reagan joked during a soundcheck, saying, "We begin bombing in five minutes." Though intended humorously...
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    Reagan's infamous "We begin bombing in five minutes" speech. The record was credited to "Bonzo goes to Washington" (also referenced in the 1985 Ramones...
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  • Soviet/Russian jokes in televised debates, many of which have now been uploaded to video hosting websites. We begin bombing in five minutes Problems playing...
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  • again in a speech in South Carolina as he competed with Rubio for second place in the state's Republican primary election on February 20: "We can bring...
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    the bombing the Mandate government began planning Operation Shark. The bombing inflamed public opinion in Britain. After the bombing, editorials in British...
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    is). The track is called 'Five Minutes,' and it's basically a sample of Ronald Reagan's 'We begin bombing in five minutes' joke speech, with some rudimentary...
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    that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." George H. W. Bush did not regularly record a weekly radio...
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  • killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. 1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election...
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     59. United States Strategic Bombing Survey (June 1946). "U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"...
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    Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    Mayor of the District of Columbia; and five members of the public. The building was expected to be completed in 1992. President Reagan signed the Federal...
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    Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    a permanent exhibit covering Reagan's life. This exhibit begins during Reagan's childhood in Dixon, Illinois, and follows his life through his film career...
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    Reykjavík Summit (category Diplomatic conferences in Iceland)
    in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 11–12 October 1986. The talks collapsed at the last minute, but the progress that had been achieved eventually resulted in the...
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  • that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." The comment, while not actually broadcast, did eventually...
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    that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." The quip is not aired but is leaked to the press. The Soviet...
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  • The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican...
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    Later, Begin's government promoted the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Begin authorized the bombing of the Osirak...
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    the National Christmas Tree. Rex would live in the White House from that Christmas until Reagan left office in 1989, once gaining headlines when he underwent...
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  • The Day Reagan Was Shot (category Films set in 1981)
    Screen Actors Guild Award Nominated: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie (Richard Dreyfuss) Rob Owen (7 December 2001)...
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  • The first time the fictional narrator sees him is at a 1926 football game in Dixon, Illinois. He asks a friend who the fellow running down the field "with...
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  • that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." August 30 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off...
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    joke on a live microphone, "We begin bombing in five minutes." Bill Coffin of Compliance Week compared the two incidents: "In Reagan's case, he immediately...
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  • ISBN 9781466870819. Hunt, Andrew E. (2021). We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan. University of Massachusetts...
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    Washington Summit (1987) (category 1987 in international relations)
    place on December 8–10. Reagan and Gorbachev discussed regional conflicts in Afghanistan, Central America, and Southern Africa, arms control issues for...
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    Moscow Summit (1988) (category 1988 in international relations)
    books, which necessitated cancelling some history classes in Soviet secondary schools. In the end, Reagan expressed satisfaction with the summit. Reagan...
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