Posted on 02/05/2011 6:02:10 AM PST by Miss_Meyet
Link only, the Foundation seems to have rather strict copyright details.
Thatchers eulogy to Reagan in 2004...
We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man, and I have lost a dear friend…
…For the final years of his life, Ronnie’s mind was clouded by illness. That cloud has now lifted. He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth, for we may be sure that the Big Fellow upstairs never forgets those who remember him.
Baroness Thatcher at RR's funeral.
Except, I don't know what "rejectulation" is. But, I can guess.
And laugh.
God bless her.
This picture and the one of Michael Reagan comforting Nancy are two images I will always remember.
This picture and the one of Michael Reagan comforting Nancy are two images I will always remember.
I agree.
Thatcher taped this eulogy ahead of time in the event she was incapacitated or no longer living - such was her love, respect & admiration for Pres. Reagan.
Another great eulogy for Reagan was by Dick Cheney, who said, “He was a providential man...” Cheney has class.
“...Ronald Reagan was more than an historic figure. He was a providential man, who came along just when our nation and the world most needed him....”
In honor of Pres Reagan, let us remember some of his words that changed the world:
A TIME FOR CHOOSING 1964
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganatimeforchoosing.htm
We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we’re willing to make a deal with your slave masters.”
Khrushchev has heard voices from our side pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he’d rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.”
And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us.
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.
If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin — just in the face of this enemy?
Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs?
Should Christ have refused the cross?
Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ‘round the world?
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
The former First Lady believes her long-suffering husband recognized her when he stared into her eyes for an instant before taking his last breath, his daughter Patti Davis writes.
“It was the greatest gift he could have given me,” the former First Lady told her family.
Sobbing, shaking and knowing death was imminent, she held her husband’s hand about 1 p.m. Saturday as he inhaled deeply and opened his eyes for the first time in five days.
While most thought Alzheimer’s disease had robbed former President Reagan of all his memory, the last look he gave his wife was one of deep acknowledgment.
“At the last moment when his breathing told us this was it, he opened his eyes and looked straight at my mother. Eyes that had not opened for days did, and they weren’t chalky or vague,” Davis recalls. “They were clear and blue and full of life. If a death can be lovely, his was.”
Obama intends to cash their chips, and commence the thousand years of darkness.
He hates Americans, just like Qutb, and bin Laden, and Chavez, and Castro, and all the other anti-American ideologues and haters.
Another great eulogy for Reagan was by Dick Cheney, who said, “He was a providential man...” Cheney has class.
Thanks, Former MSM Viewer. I think that MT's doctors had advised her to withdraw from public speaking after her several strokes in 2002, and so, she taped her eulogy. IIRC, they advised her against travel, but she attended the funeral.
More on the Iron Lady:
...Unlike her predecessor at 10 Downing Street, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher did not have a doctor accompanying her on her foreign trips.
Once, when she was asked by Lee Kuan Yew, who was Prime Minister of Singapore, why she did not travel with a doctor, she replied: "I would have ended up looking after the doctor."
Yep. I visit Hillsdale every chance I get.
Thanks again, Former MSM Viewer!
The picture of the Ford truck reminds me of #5 from the Grand Old Opry line up.
And, I laugh all over again.
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