Posted on 03/14/2016 4:32:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
How a proven rock-ribbed leader handles protesters:
My favorite president.
It was a total blast, just pure innocence, fun, and Americana. The greatest decade in American history.
bkmk
And trespassing disrupters in 1980: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEXOpm0H7QA
Thank you for sharing — great to see!
I think I saw him assaulting Michelle Fields in that video.
Back and to the left. Back and to the left...
Teddy would be saddened by his ‘Tone’.
Bruises. Force. Had me reduced to tears.
My happiest days as an American were the days Reagan was elected and inaugurated. My daughter was born on his 72nd birthday. Years later, she named her baby daughter Reagan. He was something!
hecklers are worse today? How so?
It will escalate if Bill Ayers has taught his students well, but just yelling or “heckling” is still heckling. As much as DT loves being in the middle of things, he does need to keep people in front of him. I wonder if he is taking the advice of his protection detail or if he is only listening to himself.
I blame Reagan for the Disco era
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I sister wrote to Governor Reagan, and received back a Hand Written letter reply from him, concerning Welfare receipts being sent on Skiing Trips to Lake Tahoe......she didn’t keep the letter.
“The hecklers in those days were not nearly as violent or as likely to be supported and lionized by the main stream media. That condition, too has been changed.”
You do not remember those days well. There were PLENTY of “hecklers” who played rough. How about the guy at Augusta who held hostages in the pro shop until Reagan spoke to him? Or another guy named Hinckley?
This was my favorite. Especially the last line:
WASHINGTON, April 13— President Reagan, addressing 10,000 fundamentalist Christians, was suddenly heckled tonight by a score of people shouting, ‘’Bread, not bombs!’’
The outburst occurred as Mr. Reagan spoke to delegates to the Baptist Fundamentalism ‘84 Convention at the D.C. Convention Center.
Mr. Reagan had to stop reading to the crowd from a letter written by a Marine chaplain in Beirut when the demonstration began. He looked up at the intruders off to his right in their far seats and drew cheers from the audience when he declared: ‘’Wouldn’t it be nice if a little bit of that Marine spirit would rub off and they would listen.’’
A man in the audience charged into the shouting group, pushing one to the floor, and the crowd cheered. The hecklers kept shouting: ‘’Bread, not bombs!’’ as convention workers ushered them out. ‘I Think They’re Leaving’
‘’I’ve got more decibels at work for me than they have,’’ Mr. Reagan declared, bringing more cheers from the crowd.
As the hecklers were carried from the building, one with his mouth muffled, Mr. Reagan dryly observed, ‘’I think they’re leaving.’’
Disco music was Carter’s fault. Saturday Night Fever, white suits,polyester shirts with B-52 collars, medalions and angel flight pants were 1978 and 1979. Reagan saved us from that crap.
My Sister.....not I sister...
That's how leaders worthy of the Presidency conduct themselves.
That’s a keeper.
Reagan always showed strength
and sometimes with a smile.
He was a Great Soul.
That’s why they had to have him shot.
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