[RadioAstronomer]

I got to meet him once when I was at Brooks AFB running a test with the human centrifuge.

[NormsRevenge]

Reagan side note Bump

Reagan Library in Simi Valley makes 1.3 million photos public

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4389019

[kidd]

The one aspect of Reagan that seems to get little attention is that we was strongly against nuclear weapons and that he truly feared nuclear war. What bothers the liberals is that Reagan chose to negotiate from a point of strength rather than to simply do more of what was done by his weaker Presidential predacessors.

Reagan achieved results through strength.

[shield]

bttt

[TChris]

Thanks be to the Almighty for Ronald Reagan.

[jcb8199]

Great post! Thanks!

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Ronald The Great...The reason my mom's generation did not follow the loony left act from just before.

God rest his soul.

[gaijin]

As a young life-guard, I believe "Dutch" (as he was called) saved over 70 people from drowning.

[Professional Engineer]

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[Euro-American Scum]

Ronald Reagan was a great man and a great president.

That's all anybody needs to know.

[Sonny M]

It should be noted, that President Reagan majored in economics in college.

[Bender2]

Plus he was a much better actor than the current crop of liberal scenery chewers!

[RebelBanker]

Ping!

Thought you might like this article.

[Alberta's Child]

He was one of a few presidents of the 20th century who had a significant professional life before entering politics. The others would include General Dwight Eisenhower and Professor Woodrow Wilson.

Incorrect. Herbert Hoover was an engineer in the mining industry before he entered politics. In fact, he had such an outstanding reputation for his managerial skills that he was appointed by Woodrow Wilson to lead the U.S. relief efforts in Europe after World War I.

[george76]

We win; they lose.

[backhoe]

Still Morning in America : Reaganomics, 25 years later

 

[fredhead]

bump for later

[Serb5150]

ping

[reagan_fanatic]

6. Reagan broke the “Vietnam Syndrome” of American self doubt, not only by rebuilding U.S. military power, but also by rediscovering and proclaiming American exceptionalism

One of his most important and lasting legacies.

God Bless Ronald Reagan.

[Paul Ross]

3. Reagan put aside a lifetime of hostility to the Soviet Union to deal with a man, Mikail Gorbachev, he believed he could work with. That flexibility, when paired with new U.S. military strength and strong presidential support for anti Communist freedom fighters, resulted in the beginning of the end for Communism as first the Berlin Wall and then the Soviet Union itself came apart.

The "working with" stuff did get a number of conservatives bent out of shape (such as Evans & Novak I recall), but they didn't know how deep the Reagan plan to undermine the Soviets had progressed...and that working "with" the Soviets (but only after the defenses were rebolstered and SDI on track, and the "freedom campaign" underway) was part of the design! There was no personal ill-will against Gorbachev (or anyone who the system, in desperation would have thrown up) ...but Reagan understood that the Soviets "peace offensive" if actually followed up with anything other than words meant that their totalitarian distopia was finished...

He adroitly called their bluff on the peace offensive. The INF Treaty resulted from his forthrightly pushing for deployments...gaining the supposedly impossible-to-achieve, "Zero Option". And then there was the little matter of the Berlin Wall: