Top 10 Things You Should Know About Ronald Reagan

Human Events ^ | January.20,2006 | Frank Donatelli

[backhoe]

Still Morning in America : Reaganomics, 25 years later

 

[fredhead]

bump for later

[Right Cal Gal]

"I got to meet him once when I was at Brooks AFB running a test with the human centrifuge."

I completely and sincerely envy you.

[Habble Gabble]

Me too. meeting Reagan and all but those centrifuge things look so cool!!!!

[Lekker 1]

You don't believe Wilson, Eisenhower and Reagan had "significant professional lives" before politics? What in the statement was incorrect?

[Alberta's Child]

The author of that article made it sound as if Reagan, Wilson, and Eisenhower were the only ones who had notable careers before politics.

[Lekker 1]

I was pretty much just messin' with ya. I like Hoover a lot. His library/visitor's center in West Branch, Iowa is pretty cool. I lived out there for a while. Bottom line on Hoover, IMHO, he got the bum rap due to issues not under his control. I think the Dems were just as active mudslingers then as they are now.

[Serb5150]

ping

[Reagan Man]

Thanks for the post and link, backhoe.

[backhoe]

You bet- my long-lost first wife and I moved heaven and earth to get that man elected-- Jimmy Carter was a disaster you had to live through to fully see how badly a change was needed.

Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, the Pope- there were Giants in the Earth, in those days, and we'll not see their like again.

[Alberta's Child]

It's worth noting that a board of engineers from the major professional engineering societies in the U.S. awards the Hoover Medal each year to an engineer in recognition of that person's contributions to humanity outside their professional work.

Ironically, Dwight Eisenhower was the recipient of this award in 1960!

[Reagan Man]

>>>>Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, the Pope- there were Giants in the Earth, in those days, and we'll not see their like again.

Couldn't agree more.

I started campaigning for Reagan in 1976. We actually thought Reagan would beat out PresFord and his worthless agenda, win the GOP nomination and get elected. Had to wait until 1980 for everything to fall in place. Reagan was good for America and his two landslide wins in 80&84 helped set the table for the big conservative victory in 1994. A lot of what Reagan accomplished is still with us today, but sasdly too much of the Reagan policy agenda has been turned on its head.

[RMDupree]

He did not run for president to be somebody, but rather to “do things.” He had nothing to prove to anyone.

A good friend of mine once made that observation. :-D

[reagan_fanatic]

6. Reagan broke the “Vietnam Syndrome” of American self doubt, not only by rebuilding U.S. military power, but also by rediscovering and proclaiming American exceptionalism

One of his most important and lasting legacies.

God Bless Ronald Reagan.

[Ramius]

:-)

My first vote, and my first Commander in Chief.

[snif] We miss ya, Ronnie...

Dubya may not have Ronnie's silver tongue, but he's doing things that will likely prove out to be just as world-changing. Recall especially how Reagan was portrayed in the media at the time: A doddering forgetful old fool that fell asleep in cabinet meetings. In the longer perspective, though, the stuff that matters is what forms history.

[Paul Ross]

3. Reagan put aside a lifetime of hostility to the Soviet Union to deal with a man, Mikail Gorbachev, he believed he could work with. That flexibility, when paired with new U.S. military strength and strong presidential support for anti Communist freedom fighters, resulted in the beginning of the end for Communism as first the Berlin Wall and then the Soviet Union itself came apart.

The "working with" stuff did get a number of conservatives bent out of shape (such as Evans & Novak I recall), but they didn't know how deep the Reagan plan to undermine the Soviets had progressed...and that working "with" the Soviets (but only after the defenses were rebolstered and SDI on track, and the "freedom campaign" underway) was part of the design! There was no personal ill-will against Gorbachev (or anyone who the system, in desperation would have thrown up) ...but Reagan understood that the Soviets "peace offensive" if actually followed up with anything other than words meant that their totalitarian distopia was finished...

He adroitly called their bluff on the peace offensive. The INF Treaty resulted from his forthrightly pushing for deployments...gaining the supposedly impossible-to-achieve, "Zero Option". And then there was the little matter of the Berlin Wall:

[RMDupree]

Recall especially how Reagan was portrayed in the media at the time:

I've noticed how the media uses the same tired old lines about Dubya, describing him as a bumbling, barely literate oaf.

Time will tell, just as it did for Dutch. :-D

[Reagan Man]

Great image. Thanks for the post.

[dfwgator]

The liberals hatred of Reagan was only matched by the hatred from the Rockefeller Republicans before Reagan became President. That shows how much he did transform the GOP.

[dfwgator]

Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, the Pope- there were Giants in the Earth, in those days, and we'll not see their like again.

Amen.