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Reagan Library reopens to large crowds (photos)
Yahoo News Photos ^ | 6/14/04

Posted on 06/14/2004 5:03:31 PM PDT by Wolfstar



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: heresy; photos; reagan; reaganlibrary; ronaldreagan; rwr
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To: hoot2
Thank GOD for Ronald Reagan sunsets...

Gorgeous, huh?! I've lived in New York, Miami and Los Angeles, and I understand why President Reagan loved the Pacific. The Pacific is compelling in a way the Atlantic is not, although I couldn't begin to explain why.

21 posted on 06/14/2004 5:51:28 PM PDT by Wolfstar (He slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God. Thank you President Reagan.)
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To: Wolfstar
"The Pacific is compelling in a way the Atlantic is not, although I couldn't begin to explain why."

Sea lion Migrations

22 posted on 06/14/2004 5:59:46 PM PDT by dts32041 (What is the exit strategy for Europe and Japan ? - I don't think there was one, we are still there..)
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To: Wolfstar

Thank you, Wolfstar!


23 posted on 06/14/2004 6:04:22 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Wolfstar
I've never been farther west than Las Vegas YUCK...I'll be planning a family trip to CA in the next couple of years. We'd like to camp our way out west from NC.

MKM

24 posted on 06/14/2004 6:18:09 PM PDT by mykdsmom (Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages, but we preferred it when he belonged to us - G. W. Bush)
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To: Wolfstar
The second and third pictures caused me to lose it again. The elderly white-haired lady, bereft in her grief.

I have asked myself so many times over the past nine days: why are we so grief-stricken that this great man has gone home to the Lord. He lived a wonderful life, he was 93 years old, and he was suffering, not to mention his beloved Nancy's suffering too.

But I still cannot stop my tears from flowing - the feeling of loss is like none I've felt since I lost my dear mother.

25 posted on 06/14/2004 6:27:20 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: Inspectorette

I didn't even vote for the guy - was 15 when he was elected the second time - but I spent all last week crying.


26 posted on 06/14/2004 6:30:36 PM PDT by Xenalyte (This dog bite me.)
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To: Wolfstar

COOL! I love how this artists rendering has the sun setting just like it was on Friday.


27 posted on 06/14/2004 6:30:41 PM PDT by lawgirl (God to womankind: "Here's Cary Grant. Now don't tell me I never gave you anything.")
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To: Wolfstar

Wow, what a great library! Wonderful story! Great pictures, too!


28 posted on 06/14/2004 6:32:37 PM PDT by hershey
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To: Mister Baredog

In a bronze lined catafalque seven? feet down under that slab.


29 posted on 06/14/2004 6:34:19 PM PDT by hershey
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To: Mister Baredog

We are so lucky to have lived during his lifetime, that we knew him and had him as our President and America and the world's best friend. It's akin to knowing George Washington or Lincoln. Unbelievable. No wonder RATs are gnashing their teeth. They've tried every spin imaginable to either besmirch the man and his legacy, or to say GW can't fill RR's boots, but Kerry can. Ha.


30 posted on 06/14/2004 6:37:43 PM PDT by hershey
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To: Wolfstar

Did they just slide off the existing concrete slab and slide it back? I guess I was expecting that they would excavate through it, but I don't see any fresh concrete. Or is the whole thing fresh concrete?


31 posted on 06/14/2004 6:37:45 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Xenalyte
I was 21 in November 1980, so Reagan was the first president I voted for; I remember to this day pushing the lever in the voting booth next to his name, how thrilled I was that I had the opportunity to do my bit for this great guy... Oh dear. Blurry screen syndrome again.

After Carter conceded, my mom & I went on a cruise up and down Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee, yelling "Landslide!" out of the car windows every few blocks. It was glorious!

Crying again. Gotta quit typing.

32 posted on 06/14/2004 6:42:08 PM PDT by 6323cd
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To: hershey
In a bronze lined catafalque seven? feet down under that slab.

A bronze-lined vault. The vault and the casket, together, weigh 4,000 pounds, and required a small crane to lift the vault out of the ground, place the casket in it, place the top of the vault over the base, seal it, and lower it back into the ground.

According to new stories, the grave was covered at 3 am, Pacific time, on Saturday morning.

33 posted on 06/14/2004 6:47:08 PM PDT by sinkspur (There's no problem on the inside of a kid that the outside of a dog can't cure.)
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To: Wolfstar

Thanks for the ping, Pat. I may have to wait to get to the Library until they finish with the Air Force 1 exhibit.


34 posted on 06/14/2004 7:22:39 PM PDT by My2Cents (Godspeed, President Reagan....And thank you.)
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To: Wolfstar; Rabid Dog; Bob J

Ping in case you want to add the possible July 17th FReeper Reagan Library event to this thread. (a link, anyway. ;) ))


35 posted on 06/14/2004 7:44:06 PM PDT by cgk (Happy Anniversary to my Hubby! (6-14-04) - With love, xxx ooo)
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To: cgk

Working on it...


36 posted on 06/14/2004 7:47:04 PM PDT by Bob J (freerepublic.net/ radiofreerepublic.com/rightalk.com...check them out!)
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To: Bob J

Great! (passing on the info whenever I see mention of those interested in visiting the library.)


37 posted on 06/14/2004 7:48:18 PM PDT by cgk (Happy Anniversary to my Hubby! (6-14-04) - With love, xxx ooo)
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To: Wolfstar
I predict that the Reagan Library will have a great spike in visitors for the next two to three years. That 707 addition will really have people coming in. I won't be surprised if the annual number of visitors tops at least the 300,000 mark.
I live in Little Rock and of course we have the "great" Clinton Library opening here in November.
The idiots here had a study commissioned and they think they are going to get a steady 300,000 visitors a year. I just don't think so. I imagine after the first year or so after things calm down that Library will settle in to a good 80,000 folks a year and most of them will be bus loads of school kids coming in from around the state and they won't be spending big tourist dollars.
38 posted on 06/14/2004 7:57:46 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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39 posted on 06/14/2004 8:01:06 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: cgk; DoughtyOne

Thanks for the ping! D1 - make sure cgk gets pinged when the thread goes up regarding the Library trip on the 17th.


40 posted on 06/14/2004 8:03:27 PM PDT by Rabid Dog (Join your FreeRepublic Chapter and make a difference!)
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