Posted on 06/06/2004 8:04:28 PM PDT by summer
Bombshell revelations about Ronald Reagan.
A new book released nationwide today [Jan 2002] offers several bombshell revelations about Ronald Reagan.
In "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism," author Peter Schweizer writes that Reagan survived no fewer than five serious assassination plots or attempts.
After digging through Soviet Communist Party archives and once super secret classified U.S. documents, Schweizer leaves no doubt that the radical left here in the U.S. and communists abroad sought to stop Reagan's climb to power and, later, his presidency.
Schweizer says that Reagan's anti-communist efforts in Hollywood made him the No. 1 enemy of the Left.
In 1946, Reagan was targeted for assassination, as were his children. Things became so heated that he spent nights sitting up with a loaded .32 gun guarding his family. Tensions over Reagan's run-in with the Left may have contributed to his divorce from actress Jane Wyman.
In 1969, when he was governor of California, radicals came within inches of firebombing the Reagans' home in Sacramento. Gunshots fired by alert guards prevented the bombing.
The Weather Underground had made killing Reagan a top priority and even kept a bullet with his name on it at its secret headquarters.
In 1976, radicals fearing that Reagan would win the presidency plotted to kill him, with the probable help of Cuban intelligence agents.
And in 1983, while he was president, the North Koreans tried to kill him during his historic visit to the Korean DMZ.
Schweizer reveals new KGB files that Soviet and other intelligence agencies tracked Reagan during his entire career and took extraordinary steps to prevent his political rise.
This is a meticulously researched and penetrating analysis of the Cold War and the man who ended it. Peter Schweizer delves into the origins of Ronald Reagan's vision of America, and documents Reagan's consistent, aggressive belief in confronting the Soviet Union diplomatically, economically and militarily.
The Left often dismisses Ronald Reagan as an "amiable dunce," a genial actor who simply mouthed whatever slogans his right-wing puppet masters put in front of him. "Reagan's War" brilliantly overturns this myth. Drawing on private diaries dating from Reagan's days as an actor and extending through his presidency, Schweizer, a well-known historian of the Cold War, shows that Reagan's fervent anti-communism marked every era of his life and was the driving force behind his policies as president.
Reagan's greatest strength was his moral clarity, particularly as it applied to the constant struggle between individual Freedom and tyranny of the state over the individual.
There was no larger contrast than that between the "evil empire" and the ideals stated in our Declaration of Independence (which Reagan cited frequently).
The struggle between those two opposing forces (Freedom and tyranny) is never really over, and continues to this day.
Reagan did his duty to advance the cause of Freedom. All of us should follow his example and do our part.
Thanks Summer.
Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets
Many Patriots dream of tossing a monkeywrench into the infrastructure of tyranny, but it's going to be hard to top what President Reagan did in that regard:
"In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline"
Thanks for this article.
Ronald Reagan was a great man. The best president in my life time, the best president of the 20th centruy, and one of the top three or four presidents in the history of our nation.
Uh, Hinckley would be a most obvious number 6.
HUH?
Amen...very well said!
Won't even let his villains be villains have to be proto nazis.
He was murdered by the Soviets when they shot down KAL 007.
Also, with no disrespect intended towards Reagan, I believe that the greatest president of the 20th century was it's first; Theodore Roosevelt.
That said, Godspeed President Reagan; you served your country well......
I know who Larry McDonald is. My problem is with the phrase "Ideological successor."
That was outstanding, Jeff. Thank you.
It has been difficult to keep up with all of the President Reagan threads this weekend. I wonder how many other fantastic tributes I have missed?
The movie version of "Clear and Present Danger" was a waste of celluloid. How much control did Clancy end up exercising over the film? It's pretty common for a print author to see his work butchered on the screen, and have little or say in the final product because of the way the contracts are negotiated and written. Clive Cussler has for many years refused to sell the rights to his books because of the botched "Raise the Titanic!" movie.
Please consider leaving your own impressions and feelings there.
An outstanding post that would make a fine tagline.
Bookmarked.
Very very interesting. If I had money to spend on things other than food, rent and gas I'd buy it. Being in college can really suck at times, ya know.......
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