Posted on 01/27/2011 11:39:49 PM PST by pissant
"Within the Reagan household, and perhaps in Ronald Reagan's heart," his definitive biographer Lou Cannon writes, "there was an early sense that he was a child of destiny." Certainly there was not much in his family background to suggest that. The 40th president was born one hundred years ago on Feb. 6 in the second floor of a gritty-looking building in Tampico, Ill. The family moved to other towns, and briefly to Chicago, before shoe salesman Jack Reagan and his wife, Nell, settled in the prosperous town of Dixon when Reagan was 9.
Reagan always remembered his boyhood there in elegiac terms, and the modest but comfortable hillside house where he spent several years seems to confirm that impression. But Jack Reagan was overfond of drink and failed at one business after another, and Lee County tax records indicate that each place the Reagans rented was worth less than the one before. They ended up in an apartment literally on the wrong side of the railroad tracks.
Yet from an early age Ronald Reagan seems to have been, as one biographer said of Abraham Lincoln, "a little engine of ambition." An ambition to be someone important in the world,
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In contrast to Barack Hussein Obama, whose birthplace could be Mombasa Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, or Kali’poli Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, or anywhere in between insofar as no independently verifiable way to prove where he was born has been determined to exist, it has never been widely disputed that Ronald Reagan was born anywhere else but right here:
at 111 South Main Street 2C
Tampico, Illinois
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