Until www.reaganvigil.com goes live late tonight or early tomorrow, here is a link to the website to organize candlelight vigils in hometowns across America and internationally.
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/reagan/
We put it together in a hurry, so please forgive its lack of slick appeal, but it should get the job done.
Send it out to everyone you know, every list you've got so that folks can get together and start organizing vigils!
And if you are in Washington DC Sunday night, come by Lafayette Park across the street from the White House at 6 PM.
Let's get this together for the Gipper!
KRD
I was at the ranch in July of 1973, just after he bought it. As a matter of fact, it was more or less the first official function there. To say the house was humble is the understate by a large degree. He would change that. But not in a pretentious or flashy way. He did it the way any rancher would. Make it comfortable and functional while keeping expenses under control.
About four years later, we were there again after many of the improvements had been made into what the world knows as the ranch today. This was probably the first housewarming. I believe my signature, along with the other guests that night, are on the first page of the guest book. The boys, who were 14 and 12 at the time also signed it. My daughter was almost 4 but could already sign her name.
As the kids were signing in, one of the party made a fuss over the 'children' signing the guest book. Ron heard this and hushed everyone up with 'They're (meaning the children) our guests too'. Then he asked my daughter, 'Young Lady, can you sign your name?'. When she answered in the affirmative, he told her to go right ahead.
He was one of the most magnificiently polite and caring people I ever met. He always had a sense of proportion about things.
So if you go to one of the early pages in the guest book you'll see Alex's signature when she was 4.
I remember Reagan splitting wood and doing ranch chores. The RAT lickspittles in the press called it theatrics. Never having done physical labor or lived as a result of their own efforts, the elite media can easily be understood to not understand the satisfaction of hard work and self-sufficiency.
I do, because I am working class filth.
Good bye, Ron. We didn't see eye to eye on some things but you were a stout comrade.
Cheers to you, wherever you are!
The western white house was coined by Nixon and his home in San Clemente