TributeToRonaldReagan.com

TributeToRonaldReagan.com ^ | June 11, 2004 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

I took out the domain name "TributeToRonaldReagan.com" today (it will take about 96 hours to propogate across the web). It is my permanent tribute to President Ronald Wilson Reagan...the greatest President in my life time, in the 20th centruy, and among the two top presidents of all time, second IMHO, only to George Washington.

[Jeff Head]

There are a lot of pics on this site on the gallery page and on the memorial page. Please browse through them and see what you think.

I also have the transcripts of most of his major speeches, and have included all of the transcripts of the speeches, remarks and eulogies given while he was in state, at his funeral and at the burial.

I hope you all enjoy it.

Jeff

[Jeff Head]

Couldn't help myself, I had to do this and get it out there. Writing on Volume V of my series had to take a back seat for the last three days.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Just checked out you're site, nice job!

[Jeff Head]

Thanks...I wanted my kids and grandkids and their friends and descendants to know where to find the truth about him...adn read about the principles he believed in that made him what he was.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Very nicely done Jeff, I'm still going through it.

[Travis McGee]

Bookmarked for Sunday liesure reading!

[Jeff Head]

Thanks...let me know what you thin. Lots of work, but well worth it.

I don't know why the banner is not coming up on the top of this threead. Here, I'll try again:

[Jeff Head]

Dang...my keyboard is old and sticking on a few and missing others.

thin=think and threead=thread!

[Jeff Head]

For all those who prayed together on the Reagan prayer thread we had going last week; this new site is one of the things it has motivated me to do.

[ThePythonicCow]

Nice job - thanks.

How about another section - Humour. It could contain for example the quotes and stories that got a chuckle from the congretation at the memorial service. That sort of thing.

Examples that come to mind:

• A boy once wrote to him requesting federal assistance to help clean up his bedroom. The President replied that, "unfortunately, funds are dangerously low." He continued, "I'm sure your mother was fully justified in proclaiming your room a disaster. Therefore, you are in an excellent position to launch another volunteer program in our nation. Congratulations."
• The actor, Robert Cummings, recalled one occasion. "I was sitting around the set with all these people and we were listening to Ronnie, quite absorbed. I said, 'Ron, have you ever considered someday becoming President?' He said, 'President of what?' 'President of the United States,' I said. And he said, 'What's the matter, don't you like my acting either?'"
• When asked, "How did your visit go with Bishop Tutu?" he replied: "So-so."
• When he said to emergency-room doctors after he had been shot: "I hope you're all Republicans."
• When 1984 Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale accused Reagan of "government by amnesia," the president countered with, "I thought that remark accusing me of having amnesia was uncalled for. I just wish I could remember who said it."
• "I've given my aides instructions that if trouble breaks out in any of the world's hot spots they should wake me up immediately — even if I'm in a Cabinet meeting."
• "Things have been awfully busy at the White House lately. I've really been burning the mid-day oil."
• "I've been around so long, I can remember when a hot story broke and reporters would run in yelling 'Stop the chisels.'"
• "It was easier to run for president when I was a boy. Back then there were only 13 states."
• "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
• "Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
• "I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

There's a bunch more at Kurtzman's Ronald Reagan Quotes

[Jeff Head]

EXCELLETN idea! I will start working on that section tomorrow or Monday! Too late (early) now!

Thanks for the idea...in addition to humnor, compassion is also a good one. Like the story of the little boy and the goldfish when he met Grobachev at the large residence in Geneva. It seems a little boy who lived there but was displaced by the meetings had gold fish that needed looking after and the President took it upon himself to do so. When one died in his care, he made sure another just like it was replaced before they left, and he then personally wrote the boy and expressed his sorrow, but let him know he had replaced it.

The leader of the free world was not too busy to help a little kid. A great man that!

[windchime]

Wonderful job, Jeff! Definitely a keeper.

[Jeff Head]

Thanks, feel free to pass it around and let others know.

[CyberAnt]

You might want to include all the wonderful books which have been written about Reagan in the last couple of years. You could probably set it up to buy through Amazon.

[Jeff Head]

Another good idea. I just recently got Reagan's War and am now devouring it.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

What a marvelous tribute. Wish I had thought of it myself.

I am sure Ronald Reagan would be deeply touched and greatly honored.

[AmishDude]

It's a great website. Well done.

[Jeff Head]

Thank you both, please feel free to spread the word and let others know.

[CyberAnt]

I've got a couple of his "letter" books and they are very revealing about who is really was as a person. I'm not sure America was worthy of him.

[CyberAnt]

"about who is really was as a person"

Sorry .. that was supposed to read: "about who he really was as a person"

My tongue got caught in my eye tooth and I couldn't see what I was saying.