Posted on 06/05/2004 5:25:40 PM PDT by Peach
Edited on 06/05/2004 5:28:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Peggy Noonan was special assistant and speechwriter to Reagan. She is also an author of numerous books, including 'When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan.' She's currently a political analyst on MSNBC.
You are very lucky when you can work for a great man or a great woman, and be even a small part of his or her efforts.
Ronald Reagan was a great communicator not because he said things in an unusual way but because he said great things—things that were true and needed saying. Those on the left in his day always thought Reagan had some magical way of expressing himself. He didn't. It was what he said that was important, not how he said it.
He entered his presidency and immediately told the truth about expansionist communism—that was news. It hadn’t been done by a U.S. president in a long time, and never in quite the way he did it. Reagan called Soviet communism bankrupt and said it would end in our time. They laughed, but he was right. And in being right, and truthful, he reignited a somnolent West, and gave heart to heroes like Natan Scharansky in the Soviet Union.
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I too hope we don't react this way when a lib dies and I'm sure we'll have a miniscule number who might. At DU, however, I'm not talking about a miniscule few......
No, thy will never spin the outporing of love for this great statesman.
His legacy is something we can look up to, and be proud of.
Amen Peggy. You honor the President you served and your tribute to a great American has moved your country beyond all that words can say.
I dont know.. She has an angel now watching over while she had to endure his demise over the last 10 years. I think like she that relief and happiness is in order.
They are miniscule. All they have is each other to spew their hate for anything good and right. Let them keep it up and stick together.
And the left hated him for it...
It's who they are. It's what they do. Let them. They can't undo what Ronald Reagan did, no matter how hard they try.
The political events over the last 8 years have convinced me that evil has found an army within today's democrat party. Some of the party members are good people; but some are driven by the same hatred that has started wars and genocide.
When they dance because of the death of a political leader and castigate the person who freed a nation from tyranny we need no more proof as to the existence of true evil.
There is no reason to rejoice in the death of any person, as they are then going to their just rewards. I revere a tyrant's falling from power; but I do it by celebrating the new liberty that befalls the old victims.
Agreed alisasny. It's always hard to endure the long goodbye and a relief at the relief of the aflicted.
They just played President Reagan's Challenger shuttle speech on FoxNews. One of Peggy's very best contributions to the President.
He and GWB are alike in this way. They both tell it like it is, no matter who doesn't want to hear it.
So--God Bless Ronald Reagan and all those here who know what we have gained from his life and what we have lost by his death.
My dear freeper - thank you for sharing that lovely story and sentiments.
ORGANIZE A VIGIL IN YOUR CITY!!!!
Until www.reaganvigil.com goes live late tonight or early tomorrow, here is a link to the website to organize candlelight vigils in hometowns across America and internationally.
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/reagan/
We put it together in a hurry, so please forgive its lack of slick appeal, but it should get the job done.
Send it out to everyone you know, every list you've got so that folks can get together and start organizing vigils!
And if you are in Washington DC Sunday night (6/5), come by Lafayette Park across the street from the White House at 6 PM.
Let's get this together for the Gipper!
KRD
Thank you so much... I have a new tag.
A great and appropriate tag.
ping
Ronald Reagan was a great man and a great president. They don't make many like him.
I must disagree, while he can no longer contribute directly to it, the work goes on, as it always will. He's passed the task on to us, and it's our responsibility to continue to build on what he accomplished.
Well, maybe not, but Newsweek made a good attempt at it in their obituary. This is the lead paragraph. The spelling error is theirs. Tellingly, they can't spell conservatism :)
June 5 - By the time he left the Oval Office in 1988, Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents of the previous 100 years, second only to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was also one of the most deeply divisive. As president, he cut taxes and drove the deficit to new heights, presiding over a bleak recession. He often botched his facts. Yet for his McCarthyist bent and staunch Goldwater conservativism, the cold warrior had a common touch. The crowds loved him; while sewing the seeds for the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union, the old actor could charm even his most begrudging critics.
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