Posted on 02/06/2009 12:17:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
The fuss over Abraham Lincoln's birthday next week is obscuring today's presidential birthday. Ronald Reagan, the only president native to Illinois, was born 98 years ago.
Celebrations are planned today at his birthplace in Tampico and his boyhood home in Dixon , both of which are now museums.
* The Ronald Reagan Birthplace, 111 S. Main St., Tampico, will have an open house with birthday cake from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
* The Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, 816 S. Hennepin Ave. , Dixon , will have an open house from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. to celebrate the president's visit to the restored home 25 years ago, at which time he was given the keys to the home. He had lunch there, so today's event is timed to coincide.
Connie Lange, director of the boyhood home, says plans are in the works for the centennial in two years. Observances will start on Reagan's 100th birthday, Feb. 6, 2011, and continue for one year. Lange is on a 17-member commission formed to observe the Reagan centennial.
BIRTHDATES AND BIRTHPLACES FOR PRESIDENTS WITH ILLINOIS TIES
Abraham Lincoln: Feb. 12, 1809, near Hodgenville , Ky. Ulysses Grant: April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant , Ohio Ronald Reagan: Feb. 6, 1911, Tampico , Ill. Barack Obama: Aug. 4, 1961, Honolulu , Hawaii
Reagan pulled us out of double digit unemployment. Obama will help put us there.
America sure does need a President Reagan right now.
“Land of Lincoln” is such a joke. Nothing about Chicago-style One Party thug rule is Lincolnesque, and he wasn’t even from here.
Kentucky is the “Land of Lincoln”.
Chicago is not the land of lincoln, down state(where Linoln is from) is.
Reagan and Lincoln - two great republican presidents. And yes, Lincoln’s 200th is more of a milestone that the great Reagan’s 98th. Give it two years and we can have all the celebrations that won’t be overshadowed by any one else birthday. Long live Ronnie - we could really use a leader like him these days. I put Newt in the same category and really wish he would have run for president this last time around.
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