Posted on 09/06/2024 7:35:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
With regard to the new movie "REAGAN," I fully admit to a very large and enduring bias in favor of the former president. I worked as a writer in the White House of President Ronald Reagan from 1987 until the end of his administration in January 1989.
More than that, I was blessed to share a deeply personal and emotional moment with the president. He had invited me to the Oval Office to commend me for something I had written.
As we flowed into a very warm discussion, I mentioned that my parents, like his father, were dysfunctional alcoholics. As soon as I did, he stepped closer to me and put his hand on my shoulder and began to speak about the cruelty of other children when they see your father or parents in such a condition. As he spoke to me, his voice became almost a whisper as he asked me to tell him about my mom and dad.
No sooner did I do so than his eyes began to fill with tears. Upon seeing that, I am not the least bit embarrassed to say I broke into tears of my own. Taking note of my tears, the leader of the free world stepped in and gave me a hug.
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She said she had flash backs of the leaders of the USSA during the movie.
Love it.
I am going to see that movie just as soon as I can. I’ll bet Dennis Quaid does a very good job, too. His face looks right for it, and he is a good actor.
And I have heard it wasn’t a hatchet job movie. I expect anything from Hollywood to be a hatchet job on conservatives...that is just how they roll.
Outside of maybe a few of the early presidents Reagan is the greatest since the early founding. He truly loved this country and was a real man and leader.
I definitely plan to see this movie with my family.
Douglas MacKinnon is not on our side. He went to the Left several years ago.
So grateful for this posting. I don’t get out much so, though tempted, will wait for the movie to appear on Amazon and buy it. I have tapes of Reagan’s speeches and think the world of him. He might have been married to a ditz, but he was a truly good man who wanted the world to be a place where people could be at peace with themselves and with each other. And he put his life on the line to use his fame and his abilities to make that dream happen. Even the way he went into that dark night was an inspiration of a life led by a good man.
You are welcome
I saw it last night and was expected to be insulted. I was wrong. It is a good movie/documentary. It is historically accurate. No one in the theater left until all the credits had finished because there were some great pictures along with the credits. While watching you will see a lot of parallels between the late 70’s and where we are now.
Has anyone seen this movie? What are your thoughts?
Of course the Left hates it but I also hear that Patriots are disappointed in certain omissions and errors.
Excellent! I am really looking forward to that, though perhaps not the feeling of sadness at seeing the contrast between then and today, though I can take that!
That is always a good sign when people stay all the way through the credits...:)
I noticed this trend during the making of Mel Gibson’s The Passion, where the negativity and reviews of the process not to mention the reviews of the movie boosted sales astronomically. The same thing is going to happen with this Reagan movie, the left just can’t help themselves.
For some reason it always turns my stomach when they find some actor who they think looks like a historic figure - I wish they would just use the actual footage of Reagan delivering his own speeches..
I so want to meet Ronald Reagan when I get to Heaven! What a guy!
Support. Unfailing support and the ability to stand between him and the world if need be.
Note that certain angry Russia supporters here on FR are already trashing Reagan as a “globalist neocon”
Let the slanders begin ...
Note that certain angry Russia supporters here on FR are already trashing Reagan as a “globalist neocon”
Let the slanders begin ...
As good a reason for love as any I’ve heard. The reasons one person loves another must be as many as grains of sand on a beach. Excellent description!
Some people complained about including her in the movie so much but they do not understand how having one person in your corner who always has your back can keep you going in the dark times.
Pick your spouse wisely. :)
“””One of the interesting things about this movie is that it brings out that while she may not have been the sharpest apple on the tree she was what he needed and she understood him in a way that a wife should.
Support. Unfailing support and the ability to stand between him and the world if need be.”””
Exactly, I don’t know how it worked but I do know that as a team they made history together.
Reagan was the right man for that time.
I get tired of people criticizing people by comparing them to the standards of today. And even though Reagan was President as recently as 35 years ago, things have changed.
People trash Richard Nixon for various things, and Lord knows he deserves criticism for things like price controls, EPA, and things like that. But I get annoyed when people take him to task for making overtures to Communist China.
The world was a very different place in 1972, and I don’t fault him for cozying up to Communist China to create some strategic angst in the Soviet Union.
I do fault Clinton and Bush for their endeavors with China, however.
But Reagan? Right Man for the Right Time.
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