Talk:Guy Vander Jagt

video of a speech?
does anybody know where i can find a speech of vander jagt's? he is said to be the greatest public speaker of all time, even more so than reagan. if so, could you please post the link on this page?

--i do not edit wikipedia and so do not know how to do signatures. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.255.79.34 (talk) 00:26, 9 February 2007 (UTC).

Apparent problem on the page
Vander Jagt was born in 1931. In the summary ar the bottom, it says he served in the House from 1935-1951.

Not bad for a 4-year-old.

I don't want to make a correction, because I'm not sure why that's there; but I seem to smell a misnake.

21:48, 22 June 2007 (UTC)72.187.65.28

editing sources and references?
Is it my imagination or is there something very odd about the sources and references sections of Vander Jagt's page? I went to make some edits and additions to those sections, and wanted to clean that area up, but I could not see how to do it, because some of what is there seems to be "invisible" believe it or not. Am I blind or crazy or what? There is missing information there, and the format is sketchy at best. Any comments or suggestions? AMittelman 22:14, 24 June 2007 (UTC)


 * See Footnotes for details about how to use the and reference system. The text of the notes are embedded in the body of the text.

'Greatest Public Speaker' Reputation Inaccurate
I remember watching television in 1980 and hearing the news broadcasters touting how great the anticipated address of Vander Jagt at the Republican National Convention was going to be. I watched and found it was the most dreadful, inane, asinine address I have ever heard. Key phrases from the speech which give a hint as to its character include: "I'm proud to be a member of the G.O.P. The Grand Old Party. (dramatic pause) Are you??!" I remember NBC News cut away after a few minutes of this foolishness and David Brinkley said, "I think someone was kidding us about that speech being the greatest of all time." The fact that I can still remember this after 31 years says something about how terrible it was. I in fact only checked this Wikipedia entry to see if there was any mention about what a scandal Vander Jagt caused by his utterly awful speech. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.198.164.100 (talk) 11:54, 24 November 2011 (UTC)