Excerpt from former Atty General Ed Meese’s speech there today:
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“Today, with a statue in the appropriately named Freedom Square in Budapest, Hungarians will honor the man who helped secure their freedom at last from Communist rule.
It is just one of four celebrations being held this week across Europe to honor the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan organized by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
The Czech Republic, Poland and Great Britain will also hold events in honor of the 40th president and his legacy in bringing down the Iron Curtain.
Ronald Reagan was 45 years old when the Hungarians staged their revolt in 1956.
Watching from afar, the future president saw the bloody end of the Hungarian Revolution as evidence of Communism’s inherent evil.
Looking back, it’s strange how few in the West learned what Reagan did — that there was no accommodation with Communism. Other countries, particularly Czechoslovakia in 1968 during the so-called Prague Spring, would meet the same fate.”
That cool speech you realize that AG Ed Meese is almost last dude standing in Reagan admminsation