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President Reagan and Pope John Paul II
CE ^ | George Weigel

Posted on 06/25/2009 8:20:35 PM PDT by Salvation

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**Now, in Reagan’s Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster (Crown), husband-and-wife team Martin and Annelise Anderson shed new light on the Reagan-John Paul II relationship by using previously classified U.S. government files.**

This looks like an excelent book!

1 posted on 06/25/2009 8:20:35 PM PDT by Salvation
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Ronald Reagan, John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher were, in my opinion, an ordained “Holy Trinity” of the 20th century. Hope God has three more just like them coming up.


2 posted on 06/25/2009 8:23:34 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Why excerpt your own blog? If its that damned important, then (Excerpted. Click here to read more))
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Reagan's Secret War by Martin Anderson: Audio Book Cover

At Barnes and Noble

3 posted on 06/25/2009 8:25:48 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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Ronald Reagan, John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher were, in my opinion, an ordained “Holy Trinity” of the 20th century.

Or as close as we'll ever get to one. True giants who walked the Earth.

4 posted on 06/25/2009 8:27:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Larry Lucido

I thought of Lady Thatcher, too, when I read this article. They were great together — all three.

I have found photos of them and of Reagan and Pope John Paul II, but now most of them are not postable. Bah!


5 posted on 06/25/2009 8:27:34 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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6 posted on 06/25/2009 8:29:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Helmut Kohl comes in for honorable mention. And so does even Francois Mitterand, to an extent.


7 posted on 06/25/2009 8:31:21 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Why excerpt your own blog? If its that damned important, then (Excerpted. Click here to read more))
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Hey, thanks! I posted a thread about Pope John Paul II when he died and all the Reagan/Pope John Paul II photos are gone!


8 posted on 06/25/2009 8:34:00 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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Sorry Mitterand can roast in Hell for his role in the Rwanda massacre.


9 posted on 06/25/2009 8:35:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Salvation

Thanks for posting. BTTT!


10 posted on 06/25/2009 8:39:40 PM PDT by PGalt
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I agree as an American it was great to have Reagan...As a Catholic it was great to have John Paul...As an ally to England, it was great to have Thatcher. We were VERY lucky!!! I don’t think we will ever have anything close to this trio in our lifetimes.


11 posted on 06/25/2009 8:40:45 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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President Reagan and Pope John Paul II

Things that make conservatives feel good.

12 posted on 06/25/2009 8:41:58 PM PDT by Liz (When people fear govt, we have tyranny; when govt fears the people, we have freedom.)
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As a Polish soldier A 19-year-old Karol Wojtyla, (centre),
is seen holding a rifle while performing 'present arms' in this July 1939 photo.

Two months before the outbreak of the second World War, Wojtyla
attended a military training camp in western Ukraine, then eastern Poland.

13 posted on 06/25/2009 8:43:47 PM PDT by Liz (When people fear govt, we have tyranny; when govt fears the people, we have freedom.)
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Thanks for that pic too!


14 posted on 06/25/2009 8:44:16 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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15 posted on 06/25/2009 8:45:27 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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Thank you salvation. I’m going to get this book.


16 posted on 06/25/2009 8:48:30 PM PDT by unkus
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~~PING!


17 posted on 06/25/2009 8:50:07 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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Martin Anderson, good to see that he’s still around and writing. He was an adviser to Ronald Reagan back to the time when Reagan was Governor.


18 posted on 06/25/2009 8:54:21 PM PDT by Pelham (California, formerly part of the USA)
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That’s one of the pictures I remember posting and it seems to have expired. I love it. It shows the consideration and concentration of President Reagan on Pope John Paul’s speech during their talk.


19 posted on 06/25/2009 8:55:23 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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OK, here's the thread I posted when Pope John Paul II died. A lot of pictures from his childhood.

John Paul II Gallery of Pictures [Photos]

20 posted on 06/25/2009 8:57:12 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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