The presidential election campaign of 1964 saw the Republican candidate Ronald Reagan give the infamous speech; "A Time for Choosing". This is a highly patriotic and very American video which follows the speech of Reagan by showing how his call for courage and defending American "God-given and inalienable rights for freedom" was successful. Throughout the video, militaristic power is shown at an extreme extent which perhaps reflects the strong belief of defending American Liberty. This power is shown through the various clips of weaponary including US fight jets, assault rifles and even the infamous atomic bomb. The fundamental theme in this video is defending American Liberty which is shown through the different pictures portraying elements of history. For example, Reagan states that those who helped defeat Nazi Germany should not die in vain thus the nation must carry on defending their freedom from any other threats. The pictures shown which follows this part of the speech is Hitler at one of his rallies whilst he was a dictator. 

History shows that American values were upheld and fought for through numerous campaigns, battles and World wars such as democracy, capitalism, economic liberalism and freedom. Moreover, Reagan calls the nation to continue to fight for these values, particularly the fight against Communism which pursued to spread the ideologies the majority of Americans disagreed with considerably such as Communism, state monopoly Capitalism, imperialism and a general lack of freedom. Reagan returns back to traditional values of protestantism and religion, something that was fundamental to the founding principles of liberty which the Soviet Union wanted to abolish.