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anybody get the text of Cheney's Eulogy?

Posted on 06/09/2004 5:43:00 PM PDT by CGVet58

Missed this part of the Funeral - does anybody have the text yet, and if so, could you please post it?

Many thanks,

CGVet58


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: cheney; hero; reagan; respect
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1 posted on 06/09/2004 5:43:01 PM PDT by CGVet58
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To: CGVet58

Not yet, but he was absolutely WONDERFUL!!!


2 posted on 06/09/2004 5:46:30 PM PDT by soozla (BUSH/CHENEY '04)
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To: CGVet58

So sorry you missed it, it was excellent!

I too look for anyone to post the transcript, so I can save it.

I can't say that I was impressed with Sen. Steven's speech, and I really hated the "prayer" of the house "chaplain"....he seemed to be a far left kind of guy.


3 posted on 06/09/2004 5:46:42 PM PDT by tuckrdout (Grant Teri Schindler (Schiavo) her wish: A DIVORCE!)
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To: CGVet58

You missed the best part, VP Cheney delivered a moving eulogy


4 posted on 06/09/2004 5:48:08 PM PDT by MJY1288 (Dubya Loves his Country and All Who Defends Her, While the Democrats Jeopardize it for Legal Tender)
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To: CGVet58

Give it time - it should show up on the White House web page.


5 posted on 06/09/2004 5:48:22 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Reagan defeated communism while Kerry was kissing its arse.)
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To: CGVet58

I don't have the text, but it was very moving, even while the camera scanned the likes of Maxine Waters and other illiterate dems, kind of put things in perspective.


6 posted on 06/09/2004 5:51:02 PM PDT by X-FID ( The roaming gnome must die!)
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To: tuckrdout

Which chaplain was which? I liked the benediction, but it was clear the invocation was from a chaplain who was afraid of stepping on anybody's toes by being too clear that this was a prayer.

It was really wishy washy.

But, the benediction was wonderful.

Stick it up your ass ACLU.


7 posted on 06/09/2004 5:51:14 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: CGVet58
Here ya go:

Reagan Cheney Text

8 posted on 06/09/2004 5:51:25 PM PDT by Vision Thing (If you neglect to study Reagan, you'll never understand America.)
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To: MJY1288

It was good.

Real good.


9 posted on 06/09/2004 5:51:55 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: MJY1288

Yes he did and he managed to slip in a zinger directed at Clinton in the process.


10 posted on 06/09/2004 5:52:48 PM PDT by SCHROLL (The DNC-an Evil Empire for the 21st Century that must join the USSR on the ash heap of history)
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To: Vision Thing

Thank You!


11 posted on 06/09/2004 5:53:02 PM PDT by MJY1288 (Dubya Loves his Country and All Who Defends Her, While the Democrats Jeopardize it for Legal Tender)
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To: CGVet58; All

It was beautiful and quite moving.


12 posted on 06/09/2004 5:54:30 PM PDT by olde north church (Julie, is there a rebellion?)
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To: CGVet58
Dennis Hastert's speech was good but Cheney's was fabulous. If there was a dry eye in the capitol it belonged to soulless DemonRatz.
13 posted on 06/09/2004 5:56:31 PM PDT by Feckless
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To: CGVet58

His was the best of the three. But I sure would have preferred Bush, the Dad, who was Reagan's Vice President for that particular moment.


14 posted on 06/09/2004 5:57:19 PM PDT by ex-snook (Islam's WMD is our war against the birth of children.)
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To: CGVet58
Reagan Cheney Text

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Remarks from Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday at the state funeral of Ronald Reagan in the Capitol Rotunda, as transcribed by eMediaMillWorks Inc.:

Mrs. Reagan, members of the president's family, colleagues, distinguished guests, members of the diplomatic corps, fellow citizens, knowing that this moment would come has not made it any easier to see the honor guard and flag draped before us and to begin America's farewell to President Ronald Reagan.

He said goodbye to us in a letter that showed his great courage and love for America. Yet for his friends and his country, the parting comes only now. And in this national vigil of mourning, we show how much America loved this good man and how greatly we will miss him.

A harsh winter morning in 1985 brought the inaugural ceremony inside of this Rotunda. And standing in this place for the 50th presidential inauguration, Ronald Reagan spoke of a nation that was hopeful, big hearted, idealistic, daring, decent and fair.

That was how he saw America, and that was how America came to know him.

There was a kindness, simplicity and goodness of character that marked all of the years of his life.

When you mourn a man of 93, no one is left who remembers him as a child in his mother's arm. Ronald Wilson Reagan's life began in a time and a place so different from our own in a quiet town on the prairie on the 6th of February, 1911.

Nell and Jack Reagan would live long enough to see the kind of man they had raised, but they could never know all that destiny had in store for the boy they called Dutch.

And if they could witness this funeral in 2004, their son, taken to his rest with the full honors of the United States, they would be so proud of all he had done with the life they gave him and the things they taught him.

President Reagan once said, "I learned from my father the value of hard work and ambition and maybe a little something about telling a story."

That was the Ronald Reagan who confidently set out on his own from Dixon, Illinois, during the Great Depression, a man who would one day speak before families and crowds with such ease and self-command.

"From my mother," said President Reagan, "I learned the value of prayer. My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks. And, in the end, everything worked out for the best."

This was the Ronald Reagan who had faith, not just in his own gifts and his own future, but in the possibilities of every life. The cheerful spirit that carried him forward was more than a disposition; it was the optimism of a faithful soul who trusted in God's purposes and knew those purposes to be right and true.

He once said, "There's no question I am an idealist," which is another way of saying, "I am an American."

We usually associate that quality with youth, and yet one of the most idealistic men ever to become president was also the oldest. He excelled in professions that have left many others jaded and self-satisfied, and yet somehow remained untouched by the worst influences of fame or power.

If Ronald Reagan ever uttered a cynical or a cruel or a selfish word, the moment went unrecorded. Those who knew him in his youth and those who knew him a lifetime later all remember his largeness of spirit, his gentle instincts and a quiet rectitude that drew others to him.

Seen now at a distance, his strengths as a man and as a leader are only more impressive. It's the nature of the city of Washington that men and women arrive, leave their mark and go their way. Some figures who seemed quite large and important in their day are sometimes forgotten or remembered with ambivalence.

Yet nearly a generation after the often impatient debates of the Reagan years, what lingers from that time is almost all good. And this is because of the calm and kind man who stood at the center of events.

We think back with appreciation for the decency of our 40th president and respect for all that he achieved. After so much turmoil in the '60s and '70s, our nation had begun to lose confidence. And some were heard to say that the presidency might even be too big for one man. That phrase did not survive the 1980s.

For decades, American had waged a Cold War and few believed it could possibly end in our own lifetimes. The president was one of those few. And it was the vision and the will of Ronald Reagan that gave hope to the oppressed, shamed the oppressors and ended an evil empire.

More than any other influence, the Cold War was ended by the perseverance and courage of one man who answered falsehood with truth and overcame evil with good.

Ronald Reagan was more than a historic figure. He was a providential man who came along just when our nation and the world most needed him.

And believing as he did that there is a plan at work in each life, he accepted not only the great duties that came to him, but also the great trials that came near the end.

When he learned of his illness, his first thoughts were of Nancy.

And who else but Ronald Reagan could face his own decline and death with a final message of hope to his country, telling us that for America, there is always a bright dawn ahead?

Fellow Americans, here lies a graceful and a gallant man.

Nancy, none of us can take away the sadness you are feeling. I hope it is a comfort to know how much he means to us and how much you mean to us as well.

We honor your grace, your own courage and, above all, the great love that you gave to your husband.

When these days of ceremony are completed, the nation returns him to you for the final journey to the West.

And when he is laid to rest under the Pacific sky, we will be thinking of you as we commend to the Almighty the soul of his faithful servant, Ronald Wilson Reagan.

15 posted on 06/09/2004 5:58:39 PM PDT by Vision Thing (If you neglect to study Reagan, you'll never understand America.)
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To: CGVet58

It was beautiful. I cried at the end.


16 posted on 06/09/2004 5:59:27 PM PDT by Isara (We Will Win With W)
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To: Vision Thing

Thank you all - have just read it, and I felt a quickening of my spirit through it.

God Bless President Reagan, and God Bless America.

Juan


17 posted on 06/09/2004 6:00:50 PM PDT by CGVet58 (God has granted us Liberty, and we owe Him Courage in return)
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To: rwfromkansas

It was about the wheel of reincarnation or something in my opinion. Perhaps this is what the family wanted said, but it was strange and new age to me.


18 posted on 06/09/2004 6:01:05 PM PDT by ladyinred (RIP Governor/President Reagan, ride peacefully into that sunset.)
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To: CGVet58

hope you can find an audio of Cheney as I just love to hear him speak. There's something about his voice.


19 posted on 06/09/2004 6:01:18 PM PDT by Troublemaker
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To: CGVet58

MSNBC website has the video. Why not post this on the LIVE thread and read along, you'll likely see it there, instead of starting a new thread


20 posted on 06/09/2004 6:02:18 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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