KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: CNN is celebrating 20 years of bringing news to the world, and to mark the anniversary we're taking a look back at some of the many stories we've covered over the years. Today, President Reagan's farewell address on this day in 1998.</s>FRANK SESNO, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF: When Ronald Reagan gave his final address, he was bringing to a close an era, an era of the Reagan revolution. It was wistful, it was reminiscent, it was as Reagan himself: fundamentally optimistic and positive. He again went to the metaphor he always used, which his "shining city upon a hill."</s>RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Shining city upon a hill. The phrase comes from John Winthrop...</s>SESNO: For eight years we heard "the shining city on the hill," and that was Ronald Reagan's way of saying America was different, and he felt it was genuine. He communicated it quite eloquently in that speech, and through his action and through his words he defined his area, he defined his presidency as one where America sort of got it's compass straight again, rediscovered true north.</s>CHARLES BIERBAUER, SR. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: One thing I noted was a passage in which he talked about riding in the limousine, and he said, you pass by things too fast, too quickly. He described a man with his son and helping the little boy wave the hand, and it's so fast, he said, that by the time it registers it's gone by too quickly for you to wave back, and I think that this is what he was describing as, my goodness, eight years have gone by, and there may have been more things I could have done. There was a little bit of remorse in that passage describing about how quickly how you're driven through this time span of eight years as the president.
CNN 20: Reagan's Farewell Address, January 11, 1989