Ronald Reagan at the 1988 White House Correspondents Dinner @cspanHistory
Ronald Reagan at the 1988 White House Correspondents Dinner  @cspanHistory
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
At his last White House Correspondents' Dinner in 1988, President Ronald Reagan said he hoped the press would remember him by this epitaph — "He gave as good as he got."

This year's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner is set to take place on Friday, July 24, after a gunman disrupted the original April 25 event. Watch it LIVE on C-SPAN beginning at 6 PM ET on July 24.

📺Tune in this weekend starting Saturday (7/18) at 8 AM ET on #cspan 2 as we bring you a marathon of more than 20 presidential speeches from dinners past – spanning Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden.

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Ronald Reagan at the 1988 White House Correspondents' Dinner

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