President Ronald Reagan Memorial Thread

Various | 6-10-04

[Indy Pendance]

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I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. congress
- Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
- Ronald Reagan

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
- Ronald Reagan

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
- Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. (Said during a radio microphone test in 1984.)
- Ronald Reagan

[Indy Pendance]

Add your pictures, quotes or stories. This should be fun!

[pgkdan]

bump

[MadIvan]

'ere you go -

My all time favourite Reagan moment, the one that won my love forever -

MR. GORBACHEV, OPEN THIS GATE! MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!

And of course, there's the beautiful relationship with Nancy...this was a rare public photo from 1998:

Look at her eyes. Amazing love.

Then of course, President Reagan and Our Maggie!

And the Great Man saying farewell as only he can...

Regards, Ivan

[Indy Pendance]

Excellent! Thanks for posting these!

[MadIvan]

I thought of Ronald Reagan when I went to Berlin, which was right after the wall came down. I thought of him when I borrowed a pickaxe and attacked that awful thing. To live that dream of liberty, amazing...and all due to President Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher.

Regards, Ivan

[propertius]

Thanks indy. Would love to add a picture of maggie by the coffin to this thread. But being a technological idiot, I don't know how to do it... Could you do the honours?

[Vermonter]

[Weimdog]

I read this at "The Corner" and thought I'd pass it on:

WATCHING THE GIPPER GO BY [KJL]

Dear ...,

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend President Reagan’s funeral procession yesterday as well.
I won't tell you about all the pomp and circumstance, or the sad beauty of a state funeral procession for the death of a beloved president, other than to say that it was like the death of a king. I’ll leave the sweeping descriptions to the media though. The things you won't read about are the many beautiful little moments that took place.

Grown men weeping openly, and young children standing in awe, not quite able to understand whom this President Reagan was, but fully aware of the solemnity of the moment and that something very important was happening.

So many small things happened that I will never forget. Like the ten year old with the too large glasses looking up at the big Marine Corps photographer saying, "You're a reporter? I'm a reporter too. I write for my school newspaper. We're not as big as your paper is though. And I'm not so much a writer as a cartoonist really."

Overhearing the old men who didn't know each other figure out that they’d stayed at the same hotel at the '76 convention when Reagan challenged the incumbent President Ford, and where they heard the concession speech that ignited a movement. The father and his two sons who'd driven straight through the night from Missouri, who simply said, "We had to be here." Or the five year old that instinctively took his baseball cap off as the caisson passed by who looked up at has father and whispered, "Daddy, take your hat off", and his father nodding and smiling at his son through his tears, having been so completely overcome with emotion that he had forgotten to remove it.

The fighter jets buzzing the crowd in the missing man formation. Seeing the first flight group, then the second, then the third, and finally the fourth. And just as they reached Constitution Avenue seeing one of them take off at a 90-degree angle straight up until it was forever gone from sight, a beautiful symbol of Reagan’s entrance into Heaven.

What a beautiful day.

Sincerely,

Jordan Gehrke

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/04_06_06_corner-archive.asp#033586

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I'll do it. Just provide me a link to where I can find it.

[Delta 21]

Its not verbatim but my favorite Reagan quote goes something like:


Its suprising how much you can get done when you dont care who gets the credit.

[tame]

Ronnie once compared Government to a baby: "It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

[Indy Pendance]

It's easy.

Here's the generic code: <img src="">

<img src="add html link between the quotes">

<img src="http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/news/reaganthatcherR100604_450x350.jpg">

And here it is...

[Indy Pendance]

Excellent, thanks for sharing it!

[propertius]

thanks guys

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Without a doubt, the absolute best was during the debate when he said "I will not exploit my opponent's youth and inexperience for personal political gain".

[Indy Pendance]

You're welcome. Find a photo and give it a shot!

[tame]

From Dinesh D'Souza's book Ronald Reagan: How an ordinary man became an extraordinary leader:

"When a California state senator who supported prescribing birth control devices for teenage girls without parental consent charged that 'illegitimate births to teenage mothers have increased alarmingly while Reagan has been in office,' Reagan wrote back, 'Thanks very much...I have never felt so young and virile.'"

[Indy Pendance]

HAH! I never heard that one!

[tame]

Ronnie said that the purpose of welfare "should be to eliminate...the need for it's own existence."

[dirtbiker]

One of my most memorable quotes by Reagan was: "There is nothing more permanent than a temporary government program."