I was incredibly outraged by Larry Kramer's diatribe against
Ronald Reagan. As the best president in my lifetime, he aided in eradicating the Soviet Union, and he also brought back the economy from the doldrums.
Meese spoke fondly of his close friend
Ronald Reagan, who at the time was soon to lose his battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Ronald Reagan once said that the closest thing to eternal life on this earth is a government bureaucracy.
* Before
Ronald Reagan enters the beatification phase, it would behoove those taken in by the puffery put out by his Administration (those not indicted) to pay heed to what Tip O'Neill said in his book Man of the House: "
Ronald Reagan lacked the knowledge he should have had in every sphere both domestic and international.
And it was John Paul II who had the monopoly on this--not
Ronald Reagan.
"One of the reasons we loved
Ronald Reagan so much is because he endorsed so many of our values and helped us in our country and our culture," Graham said.
But if
Ronald Reagan was as great as they now say he was, then clearly I missed something.
The former Conservative Prime Minister, a close political ally of Mr Reagan during the 1980s, said: '
Ronald Reagan knew his own mind.
The Reagan family escorted the body from the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to the nearby Navy base at Point Mugu for a flight to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington on board a presidential Boeing 747.
A steady, near-silent stream of people - some saluting, some praying - circled through the rotunda of the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi, California, where his body will lie in repose today before travelling to Washington.
Meanwhile, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has recalled that when he first met
Ronald Reagan in 1985, he considered the then-US president a `dinosaur,' and Reagan in turn thought he was a `confirmed communist.' "That changed.
Ronald Reagan - 40th President of the United States (1911-2004)