The 40th anniversary didn't draw this much attention.
Posted on 11/23/2013 4:30:34 PM PST by Kaslin
Reagan knew.
Reagan, in a hand written letter to Nixon in 1960.
""I do not include Kennedy’s acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening call to arms. Unfortunately he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the “challenging new world” is one in which the Federal Govt. will grow bigger & do more and of course spend more. I know there must be some short sighted people in the Republican Party who will advise that the Republicans should try to “out liberal” him. In my opinion this would be fatal.”
””One last thought,— shouldn’t someone tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.""
“I learned long ago, that when Ronald Reagan said something, he was almost always, spot on. I defer to him.”
Agreed. Ronaldus Magnus was my first vote in my very first Presidential election. Sadly, there will never be another.
After listening to all the blather this entire WEEK about who killed JFK, from every angle, I agree with you. It was the Commies. And THAT is just unfathomable by the LefTards who want us ALL to be Commies.
Cognitive Dissonance taken to the extreme...
Jello ran for mayor of San Francisco once.
Thanks for posting this article. I for one never knew President Reagan connected the dots so many years ago. As time moves on, we learn more and more of what a truly great man he was.
***I’ve always wondered why the US let Oswald back in after he went to live in Russia.***
Maybe the same reason they allowed Madaline Murray (O’Hair) back in the US after the Russians rejected her application to live there because the Russians found she hand no marketable skills and had been living off the US dole for years.
When putting her son in school, she had to wait a few minutes because prayers were being said. It made her so mad she sued and got prayers removed from all public schools.
Reagan was no stranger to Bobby Kennedy. He had debated him a year earlier on national television, which didn’t go well for RFK, with Reagan clearly outshining him. Kennedy told his handlers to never again put him on the same stage with "that son-of-a-b----." That debate occurred five years after Bobby Kennedy had intervened to get Reagan fired from his long stint as host of the top-rated GE Theatre on CBS -- a fact unknown until it was revealed by Michael Reagan in his excellent book, The New Reagan Revolution. Typical of Reagan, he harbored no bitterness toward RFK. That was quite unlike Bobby Kennedy, a man who personally knew how to hold a grudge... Reagan... spoke movingly about RFK and the entire Kennedy family. Condemning the "savage act... I am sure that all of us are praying not only for him but for his family and for those others who were so senselessly struck down also in the fusillade of bullets…. I believe we should go on praying, to the best of our ability." ...Reagan unflinchingly pointed a finger of blame in the direction of Moscow... Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian Arab and also a communist, had shot Kennedy because of his support of Israel during the Six Day War that had occurred exactly one year earlier. On that, we now know beyond dispute what Reagan knew then: That war had been shamelessly provoked by the Kremlin.Thanks Kaslin.
When President Reagan passed away, he had the largest State funeral in U.S. history. That really chaps the libs. I remember Brokaw and company doing everything they could to downplay it.
I hate commies
I like them however - I always thought the lyrics were deep - not the best song overall but one of the best written, IMHO
There’s always room for jello.
The 40th anniversary didn't draw this much attention.
I was about two feet away from RFK and RFK, Jr. at Disneyland about two days before he was shot.
ping
LOL! You walked right into that one, John.
agree, the democrats and media just cannot let go of the name...The only thing JFK had going for him was a pretty young wife...
expect to hear a lot more - it is a diversion from the here and now of Obama and the Dims.
Let’s get this straightened out.
The Rolling Stones didn’t write the song. They weren’t the first ones to perform it, either.
Do you remember BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS ?
But the Stones didn't write it.
And a good enough shot to have pulled it off.
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