“A Time for Choosing” by Ronald Reagan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
I made the occasion to travel to Tampico, IL just to visit the site of Reagan's birth, one year after his death and after visiting the Ronald Reagan Library two months after his death.
What a contrast in those two places.
For those fortunate to visit the Reagan Library, it is beautiful and tastefully done.
Tampico, IL is one of many such tiny towns in middle America, maybe three blocks long, you're out of it before you think you've begun. I drove back and forth three times before realizing that the tiny little store front with a couple of little American flags in the window, was the first floor of the spot where Ronald Wilson Reagan began his life on earth!
I was shocked that so little money had been spent on the site. I thought how much had gone into the Library and how forgotten his actual home seemed but that's what is so wonderful, looking back now.
The insignificant spot, like so many others around America, are not what make people who they are or who they become. That never during President Reagan's life, did he feel the need to be other than who he was, a poor boy from a small town, living in rented, dusty rooms over a storefront, is a testament to who he was.
Happy Birthday Ronnie!
Eureka College is in Eureka, Illinois, near Peoria, not Quincy.
Aaron Burr was hardly an honorable man. He tried to steal the Presidency from Jefferson in 1800.