Back during the 1970s I was in college as an undergraduate. I was unable to hear him consistently, but I always enjoyed Ronald Reagan’s daily three minute radio broadcasts whenever I head them. From 1975-1979 he gave over a 1000 of them and he personally wrote around 700 of them. This was an unusually effective mode of campaigning for President. He became a familiar figure to younger Americans who did not recall his Hollywood days, and honed his thoughts on the issues of the day. Derided as an “amiable dunce” by some of his opponents, Reagan came to the White House as a man with a well developed political philosophy who had thought and written about virtually all the issues he would confront as President. Reagan was far closer to being the mastermind portrayed in the hilarious Saturday Night Live skit linked below than he was to the idiotic actor of the fantasies of most of his political adversaries who stood by helplessly, shocked as he won the Presidency twice and became the most consequential president since Harry Truman.
https://screen.yahoo.com/president-reagan-mastermind-000000075.html
The book “Reagan In His Own Hand” his transcripts of most, if not all, of those radio addresses. After reading these addresses, I was amazed at how much information he could pack into a three or four minute sound byte.
Reagan had a brilliance that did outshine his most ferocious critics and make them look like fools.