Read the excerpt from President Ronald Reagan's speech on the night before the 1980 presidential election A popular novel of the "60s ended prophetically with its description of a "kindly, pleasant greening land about to learn whether history still has a place for a nation so strangely composed of greatideals and uneasy compromise as she." That is really the question before us tonight.for the first time in our memory many Americans are asking: does history still have a place for America for her people, for her great ideals? There are some who answer "no"; that our energy is spent, our days of greatness at an end that a great national malaise is upon us They say we must cut our expectations, conserve and withdraw, that we must tell our children __ not to Which ideas from the excerpt would be most appropriate to include in a summary? Select three options. Popular novels from the past often ask provocative questions that are important to consider today. Many Americans have given up and say that the nation is no longer great or a land of dreams. D John Wayne, nicknamed Duke was an iconic Hollywood actor and filmmaker. President Reagan believed that John Wayne would argue that he was not the last American hero, because there are many more. Duke Wayne died as a symbol of the Hollywood dream industry.