Go Ahead - Make My Day

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FOOTNOTE: *The crack "Go ahead--make my day" was originally spoken by Eastwood to a gunman he was holding at bay with a .44 Magnum in the 1983 movie Sudden Impact. It reappeared last fall in a parody of the New York Post put together by editors, most of them anti-Reagan, who imagined the President starting a nuclear war by throwing down that dare to the Kremlin. When Reagan was shown last week's Post, which used the same headline on a story about his speech, says an aide, "the President got the biggest boost out of that."

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