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Reagan's famous tribute to John Wayne - - a lot of these words fit the Gipper too
http://www.jwplace.com/Readers Digest ^ | October 1979 | Ronald Reagan

Posted on 06/06/2004 6:59:04 PM PDT by churchillbuff

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To: churchillbuff

Reagan and Wayne were two giants. Only Heston is up there with them, or perhaps Clint Eastwood - "Go ahead, make my day".


21 posted on 06/06/2004 8:11:22 PM PDT by ZULU (They weree)
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To: churchillbuff

Excellent post!


22 posted on 06/06/2004 8:21:10 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: al baby

Based on your remark; I have the following comments. You are an immature person who belongs on the Dark Side at DU. I'd imagine your IQ couldn't make the three figure quotient.


23 posted on 06/06/2004 8:29:22 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: ZULU

Heston...I agree.


24 posted on 06/06/2004 8:37:28 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Cobra64

he liked bullet bras too you ought to liten up you played right into me it was just a joke


25 posted on 06/06/2004 10:02:18 PM PDT by al baby (Hope I don't get into trouble for this)
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To: churchillbuff; All

I am very surprise that Ronnie did put Elizabeth Taylor full name in column at that time

Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner


26 posted on 06/06/2004 10:03:04 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Not everybody , in it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: zip; BOBWADE

ping


27 posted on 06/06/2004 10:19:56 PM PDT by Mrs Zip
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To: churchillbuff

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1144646/posts

Unforgettable John Wayne {by Ronald Reagan}

We must have been on the same wavelength!


28 posted on 06/06/2004 10:24:11 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (‘All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.’ TJefferson)
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To: al baby

Only a personal friend could make such a "joke" You were not a personal friend, and people here didnt take it as a joke. Your the type to kick a guy in the balls and say.... " geez what's got into him, it was just a joke"


29 posted on 06/06/2004 10:28:50 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: al baby

He!!, I get a little cross when dressing once in a while, especially if it's a black suit affair.


30 posted on 06/06/2004 10:31:42 PM PDT by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 42% of americans)
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To: churchillbuff
""That little clique back there in the East has taken great personal satisfaction reviewing my politics instead of my pictures,"

The above sounds like something someone on this forum would say.

Wayne is my all time personal favorite Hollywood star. This piece was written by my all time favorite president.

Both men are American heroes.

31 posted on 06/06/2004 11:02:13 PM PDT by TOUGH STOUGH ( A vote for George Bush is a principled vote!)
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To: churchillbuff

BUMP!


32 posted on 06/07/2004 3:40:46 PM PDT by Pagey (Hillary Rotten is (still ) a Smug and Holier- than- Thou Socialist)
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When war broke out, John Wayne tried to enlist but was rejected because of an old football injury to his shoulder, his age (34), and his status as a married father of four. He flew to Washington to plead that he be allowed to join the Navy but was turned down.

Is this true? The Left always insists Wayne was some sort of draft dodger.

33 posted on 06/07/2004 3:45:51 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
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To: Pagey
Dinesh DSouze writes today, in the Scotsman:

The economist Arthur Laffer recalls that shortly after the US invasion of Grenada in 1983, he met Reagan at a conference. He told Reagan that the newspapers had reported that the administration had gone back and forth on whether to go with the invasion. Laffer asked: "What made you finally decide to do it?" Reagan said, "Well, Art, finally I asked myself, what would John Wayne have done?"

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=645492004 Somewhere deep down, Reagan knew that John Wayne was a better guide on this occasion that the collective wisdom of the Washington establishment.

34 posted on 06/07/2004 3:54:40 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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Dinesh DSouze writes today, in the Scotsman:

The economist Arthur Laffer recalls that shortly after the US invasion of Grenada in 1983, he met Reagan at a conference. He told Reagan that the newspapers had reported that the administration had gone back and forth on whether to go with the invasion.

Laffer asked: "What made you finally decide to do it?" Reagan said, "Well, Art, finally I asked myself, what would John Wayne have done?"

Somewhere deep down, Reagan knew that John Wayne was a better guide on this occasion that the collective wisdom of the Washington establishment.

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=645492004

35 posted on 06/07/2004 3:56:14 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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Region mourns 40th president

By KRISTIN DAVIS and RUTH FINCH

Date published: 6/7/2004

Brian Hyland's admiration for the nation's 40th president is on display at his downtown Fredericksburg restaurant.

A painting hanging on the wall at J. Brian's on Hanover Street depicts Ronald Reagan standing at its bar with Frank Sinatra, John Wayne and Hyland's father, Brian Hyland Sr., who died last year.

The famous trio never got together there--or anywhere else--but it was a fantasy of father and son, Hyland said yesterday.

http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2004/062004/06072004/1389251

36 posted on 06/07/2004 3:58:42 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: churchillbuff
Good find !

APPLAUSE !

37 posted on 06/07/2004 4:10:31 PM PDT by ChadGore (Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
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To: churchillbuff
More words written about the Duke, but equally applicable to Dutch:

But now he's incommunicado
Leavin' such a hole in a world that believed
That a life with such bravado
Was takin' the right way home.

38 posted on 06/07/2004 4:23:49 PM PDT by Charles Martel ("Who put the Tribbles in the Quadrotriticale?")
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To: churchillbuff

BTTT


39 posted on 06/07/2004 4:35:57 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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