Here is Reagan on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Reagan knew how to make important information fun and interesting to the public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNmnmdtcdcg
Today is the date of my maternal grandmother’s birth as well. She passed away in 2000 at the age of 96. She was proud to share a birthday with Reagan and was delighted to receive a birthday card from him one year. I’m not sure which family member arranged that but she was so proud of that card!
June 2004.
i remember standing in the Atlanta airport waiting for a flight.
dozens of other men, also standing, all fixed on the tv.
and those damn onions.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan
Not the best - because it comes from “the White House”!
Undoubtedly controlled by commie liberals.
It’s interesting how world leaders copy eachother. In the 80’s we had Reagan,Thatcher Kohl, and Mitterrand destroying the evil empire and reestablishing the western world. Now we have Biden,Trudeau, Macron, etc. destroying it !
In 1986, I was a college delegate for some business in DC. Upon arrival at the airport, the driver from my hotel said “Hurry up and grab your bag. We need to get you to the hotel, asap!!” I asked him “Why, what’s wrong?”. The driver said “It’s a surprise! Hurry!”
I complied and he rushed me to the hotel and pulled over near the curb, then told me to get out and go stand on near the the driveway into the basement parking, yelling “Get your camera ready! The PRESIDENT IS COMING IN, ANY MINUTE NOW!” I hustled to get my little Kodak Instamatic ready and stood there for only a minute as, right on cue, the small motorcade came down the hill (nothing in size to what they are today), and Reagan’s more modest “Beast” turned just feet in front of me, and there he was, on the left side - my side - smiling and giving a wave! I snapped a hurried but decent pic (which I sadly lost a few years ago).
It was my very first trip to DC and the first thing I see of any note is the greatest president of our time - with a wave! I wish I could more properly tipped the driver, in hindsight.
Not to rain on RR’s B-day parade but his greatness needs to be re-calibrated.
“The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) was signed into law by United States President Ronald Reagan as part of a larger health bill on November 14, 1986. NCVIA’s purpose was to eliminate the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims[1] to ensure a stable market supply of vaccines, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine injury claims.[2] Under the NCVIA, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) was created to provide a federal no-fault system for compensating vaccine-related injuries or death by establishing a claim procedure involving the United States Court of Federal Claims and special masters.[1][3]”
Trumps too (Warp Speed).
I was going to write “those were the goof old days,” and then I read this from the article: “At the end of his administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression.” So now I’m writing that those were the great old days. Besides, I was married the same year he became president in 1981.