Ronald Reagan

[00Kevin]

Let us drink to Ronald Reagan! One of the Best presidents of the past few decades and the man credited for bankrupting the USSR and ending the cold war

(plus being president when raiders and temple were released)

RIP

*bottoms up*

[00Kevin]

also note that probubly at least half of the people on this forum were born during his presidency

[Gregoire Defence]

Don't know the guy;)
but I'll put out a little liquor in his honor.

in the name of conservatism

[Joe Brody]

Originally posted by Renderking Fisk
[Reagan] made mistakes, but unlike those who followed he owned up to them.

I'd check that. I seem to recall Reagan being under oath and having some serious memory lapses over (I think) Iran-Contra.

[and jokingly] Plus, I thought Bruce Springstein and Sylvester Stallone were also responsible for the re-birth of American Pride.

[Junior Jones]

I don't feel old (I was born during the Nixon presidency), but Ronald Reagan was probably the greatest president in my lifetime (at least so far).

[Pale Horse]

Say what you will, he was a very "Presidential" man, unlike many before him, and after.

[thefumegator]

He was a man of principle who had guts. I was born during his presidency, so I don't remember a lot about him, but the more I learn, the more I like him.

I'll drink to him.

Hiya, Pale Horse! ;)

Wes

[Pale Horse]

Originally posted by thefumegator

Hiya, Pale Horse! ;)

Wes

Good to see you, ol' friend. ;)

[hffan2000]

reagan was a great president. he really did a lot to help this country. the sad thing is that he suffered from a disease that is extremely hard to beat. it's too bad he couldn't have had some words for the public in his final years.

(btw fisk, keep up the good work with your articles)

[Raffey]

He was an awesome Governor and great President!

RIP...

[Katarn07]

And to think my History teacher was marvelling that there were still 5 presidents alive last week.... That really gives me an eerie feeling for some reason.

I was born in '87, the last year of his time in office, but from what I've learned in school he was indeed a great president.

[Tessa]

Reagan when to college not to far from when I live now (about a half hour or so in fact). And he was one of most influential presidents and governors of Califorina. May he rest in peace.


www.ronaldreagan.com

[Joe Brody]

Originally posted by Matthias1138
And to think my History teacher was marvelling that there were still 5 presidents alive last week.... That really gives me an eerie feeling for some reason.


Don't get too freaked out by your teacher. There were rumors floating around for at least a week prior to Reagan's death that his health was failing.

[Strider]

Reagan was an interesting fellow. I'm to young to have known that much about him but I do know he tried to uncover the truth about aliens. It is because of that that I respect him.

[Joe Brody]

Originally posted by Strider
. . . I do know [Reagan] tried to uncover the truth about aliens. It is because of that that I respect him.

You should go back and read some of the pre-Ron Headrest cartoons in Doonesbury from the early '80's. They were a trip.

[Strider]

I think I'll do that bub! I've read some pretty funny Doonesbury in the past, I'd say there worth a second look.

[Pale Horse]

An interesting report came out of Gallup today. Ronald Reagan From the Peoples Perspective (http://www.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=11887&pg=1)

Long Story Short, while in office he wasn't a very popular President. Hindsight, it seems, just goes to show, "A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough."

[Aaron H]

Also remember that this is only President to win 49 out of 50 states in an election. (the only President to win all of the states was Washington, but there were only 13 of them at the time, so it is hard to make a compairison)

That fact alone should testify to the greatness of this beloved leader.

May he truly be in his "shining city on a hill". God bless the Reagan home.

[westford]

I was quite surprised to learn that Reagan was the longest-lived president. Still, 93 is a fair age.

It's sad that Alzheimers made him forget ever being president, and that he didn't remember his family towards the end. That'd be a scary and lonely way to go out.

[Aaron H]

Originally posted by westford
I was quite surprised to learn that Reagan was the longest-lived president. Still, 93 is a fair age.

It's sad that Alzheimers made him forget ever being president, and that he didn't remember his family towards the end. That'd be a scary and lonely way to go out.

According to his daughter, who was at his side in the end, Mr. Reagan opened his eyes (which he had not opened for several days), he looked right at Nancy without the "hazyness" they they had held for so many years. One could hope that his real self broke through that cloud of Alzheimers for one last good-bye.

[Maj. Eaton]

Originally posted by Aaron H
Also remember that this is only President to win 49 out of 50 states in an election. (the only President to win all of the states was Washington, but there were only 13 of them at the time, so it is hard to make a compairison)

That fact alone should testify to the greatness of this beloved leader.

May he truly be in his "shining city on a hill". God bless the Reagan home.

Considering the State of the Union at the time, even I could have won 49 States...

Though I may not agree with his administration, he was an honorable man with principles, not unlike a certain Jones fellow I met many years ago.

[monkey]

To me, the three greatest US Presidents of the twentieth century, and the three who truly defined America in that century, were Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.

(I'm going to age myself here...always dangerous) I was in my second year of college when Ronald Reagan was first elected in 1980. I'll tell you honestly, many people were worried. They were worried about how a former actor, and a man who some perceived to be a 'right wing' "nut" was going to manage the United States of America; which by the way, was at perhaps its lowest ebb in decades in terms of pride, prestige, power, and purpose.

But Ronald Reagan rose to the occasion like no one anticipated. Not only did he restore America's Pride, Prestige, Power, and Purpose, but, as Margaret Thatcher, that Iron Lady herself said, he "won the Cold War without ever firing a shot".

We can all pause to thank Ronald Reagan for preventing the "Nuclear Winter" from ever visiting itself upon our Earth.

I was a member of the US Military during the 1980's, and I cannot tell you enough how much Ronald Reagan restored our Pride and sense of Purpose during that time. That legacy lives on today. You could clearly see it if you glanced for a moment into the eyes of those Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who stood stoicly around his casket today. And you can see it in the eyes of every US serviceman and Servicewoman around the world.

God Bless Ronald Reagan

"Mr. Gorbachav, Tear Down This Wall!!"

THEY DID!!

[Joe Brody]

. . . I was a couple years younger than you Monkey but what I remember most from Reagan's first term (aside from him crushing the air traffic controllers) was the ballsy decision to put the Pershing II's in West Germany. In my opinion, that decision, more than anything, proved that Reagan was a true leader -- not afraid to make the hard choices.

[. . . and when I look at the recent aggressive behavior/posturing of some of the decision-makers from the Reagan Administration in the present administration, I have to wonder if there is not some untold story of Reagan being a source of restraint and good judgment. Starting with Grenada Reagan was painted as a reckless cowboy both here and abroad (sound familiar?) but when I look back at those years, it's clear that most of his foriegn policy decisions were the right ones.]

[Luckylighter]

Does anyone know the name of the T.S. Eliot poem the chaplain read yesterday during that service? I'm really curious because I've always liked Eliot, and I never heard that one before. It was an appropriate for a man like Reagan.

It really bothers me when I hear schmucks like Martin Sheen make dumba** comments like, "50 years from now, people will look back and realize that Bill Clinton was the greatest president we ever had."--actual quote from a Playboy interview.

I don't want to start a politcal thing here, but c'mon. Compared to Reagan? Reagan had morals, Clinton did not. End of story.

[Pale Horse]

Originally posted by Luckylighter
Does anyone know the name of the T.S. Eliot poem the chaplain read yesterday during that service? I'm really curious because I've always liked Eliot, and I never heard that one before. It was an appropriate for a man like Reagan.


Well, I am not entirely sure about that. It is from T.S. Eliot's best known play Murder in the Cathedral You can start by looking HERE (http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/733_93.html) for some initial information on it. It's Act 1 Scene 8. The minister paraphrased it a bit. Here is the passage he took it from:

"You know and do not know, that action is suffering,
And suffering is action. Neither does the actor suffer
Nor the patient act. But both are fixed
In an eternal action, an eternal patience
To which all must consent that it may be willed
And which all must suffer that they may will it,
That the pattern may subsist, that the wheel may turn and still
Be forever still."

[Luckylighter]

Originally posted by Pale Horse
Well, I am not entirely sure about that.

I just meant the part about "Neither does the actor suffer...", since Reagan was an actor and all. I wasn't going somewhere deep with that post, really, but...er...moving on.

Thanks for the info Pale Horse, it was driving me nuts trying to find that poem. You rock!

[Pale Horse]

No, man: You Rock! (http://www.kcalfm.com/)

[Moedred]

Since this thread originated, they've completed the Air Force One Pavillion at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. I thought they were going to have to lose a wing or two, but it's all in that huge climate-controlled room with a spectacular view of the hills. Below the plane is a snack bar designed as an Irish pub named "The Ronald Reagan." The photo on the wall shows the President enjoying a pint of Smithwick's in Ireland. An ideal place to toast him (if only they served drinks).

(Also it's a good place to practice shouting, "get off my plane!" :) )

[James Byrne]

I met Reagan at a Muhammad Ali weigh-in at Dublin in 1972. Somebody asked him about Ali and he said:
"I don't comment on draft dodgers".

Indy fans will get a kick out of the old movie HONG KONG. Reagan is wearing the same gear that his buddy Chuck Heston wore a few years later in SECRET OF THE INCAS.