Posted on 08/12/2002 11:26:44 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Ronald Reagan's condition is worsening and his friends have told the New York Daily News that he "is steadily slipping in his terminal battle with Alzheimer's disease."
"He's bedridden and helpless," his son, famed radio talk show host Michael told NewsMax.com recently. According to the News, the 91-year-old beloved former president's mental deterioration has increased over the past months. "He no longer knows who Nancy is," one source, referring to Reagan's wife of 50 years, told the News. "Some days he seems to recognize her as someone who's familiar, but most of the time she's just a blank to him." "He's becoming more difficult to deal with," a source close to the family confided to the News. "Both his physical and his mental problems have gotten worse."
The News said that a former Reagan aide confirmed the sad news which was revealed even as an old Reagan friend, Charlton Heston was revealing that he too suffers from the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
"Our family knows all too well the cruelty of this disease, and we pray that God will give the Heston family, especially [Heston's wife] Lydia, . . . the strength to face each day that lies ahead," Nancy Reagan said in a statement released to the media.
Actually Sacagawea was married to the French Canadian fur trader Charbonneau who also went on the Lewis & Clark Eexpedition. She was a valuable translator and negotiator with possible hostile tribes during the trek westward.
Infinitely better than abortion advocate Susan B.
Sacagawea is an artisticly pleasant coin.
And Native Americans have been on our coinage before (Indian penny and Buffalo nickel.)
Stop being stingey. RR deserves to be on a more valuable coin, like $5 or so.
From PSALM 18, a psalm of David,
Psalms 18 1. I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
2. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
4. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
6. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
7. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9. He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
10. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11. He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
13. The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
14. Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
15. Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
16. He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
17. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18. They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
19. He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
21. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22. For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23. I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24. Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25. With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
26. With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
27. For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
28. For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
29. For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
30. As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
31. For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God?
32. It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
33. He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
34. He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
35. Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
36. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
37. I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
38. I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
39. For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
40. Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
41. They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
42. Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
43. Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44. As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
45. The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
46. The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
47. It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
48. He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
49. Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
50. Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
Grant gave Republicans a bad name (Railroad scandals, you may recall), but the reason I think the idea would sell better in Congress is because it replaces a Republican who as a President wasn't the best, with the Republican who WAS the Best! And on a respectable denomination too. (BTW when was the last time you passed a Kennedy 50-cent piece?)
Thank god 8 years of my growing into an adult years had President Reagan there.
I still recall being very young playing tennis on my jr. high team, I must have been 13-14, when the news came that Reagan was shot. I recall everyone being quiet and suspending activities for the day. I recall nervousness and yet I was just a kid.
DO - thanks for your always appropriate words.
Republic - I think we could find a few Volunteers to join together to block the entrance to a Reagan funeral by one single Liberal/Socialist/Communist/Marxist/Maoist as necessary - and I hope it is necessary!
I remember when the interlopers came to the funeral of Pat Nixon and then of President Nixon. At Mrs. Nixon's funeral, the former President Nixon showed his undying love for his wife - something the unmentionable one cannot even hope to understand, let alone display.
Then again at President Nixon's own funeral, Gephardt and Foley and all the interlopers were there.
I can't remember if the impeachedrapistraitor was there.
But I just remember burning with anger that any of these creeps would attend - would INVADE that holy scene.
President Nixon - even with all his faults - loved his wife and fought the communists - nourishing the efforts of one WITNESS - Whitaker Chambers - to the destruction of our country by these communists - the real reason for which he was destroyed by the American communists in the press and in our Senate and in our House.
There shold be total prohibition - perhaps issued by son Michael - of the attendance of ANY OF THESE AMERICAN COMMUNISTS at Ronald Reagan's future funeral!
God bless you, President Reagan and Nancy Reagan!
Thanks to you, our nation and the world experienced a breath of freedom that it would not have known had you not been there ready to take the fire for standing up for the truth and for freedom!
Susan B. Anthony was pro-life.
"Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who...drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!"
Susan B. Anthony -The Revolution, 1869
Bill and Hillary will be there. It is tradition, and it would be disrespectful of them not to show up. They went to the Nixon funeral as they should have. If Clinton dies before George W... W will be at his funeral. That is just the way it is folks.
Anybody who is a history buff... right now, we have 5 ex presidents, and 6 first ladies among the living. After say... 1850, what is the lowest number of living ex president's there have been at one point? I am thinking maybe the only time was January 1973 when LBJ died. Truman died the year before, Ike in 1969, Hoover in 1964. At that point, there were no living ex presidents. That period lasted until August 74 when Nixon resigned and became an ex.
Is this the only time it happened? Off topic a bit, but just curious.
The good news is no one will ever think high of BJClinton 14 years after his presidency ended. We knew all along but will take others longer.
In 12 years he is going to be simply the loser.
I really see no need in comparing greatness with nothing.
Dems might object a tad to disposing of FDR.
I know that and you know that. The people don't know that. The image appears to be of a single mom, and that is what the libs wanted.
Frankly when Nixon died I truly felt he was completely exhonerated and that many people began to realize the he was a good decent man and most important a great 20th century thinker.
When CLinton put a wreath near Nixons coffin I felt sick..but he had to do that because he was the sitting President.
Let us all pray that we never have another Clinton.
Does anyone have a transcript?
I had completely banished that video from my memory, but it's back with a vengeance. Thanks SO much. ;-)
According to a quick websearch, that video featured puppets which evidently appeared in another show on British television and Genesis just borrowed them for the video. The puppets were known as "Spitting Images" - and IIRC, there was a plush version of Phil Collins in that video, too. Truly hideous. Well, even *more* hideous than Collins is in real life.
BILL CLINTON 42nd President of the United States President Nixon opened his memoirs with a simple sentence: "I was born in a house my father built." Today we can look back at this little house and still imagine a young boy sitting by the window of the attic he shared with his three brothers, looking out to a world he could then himself only imagine. From those humble roots, as from so many humble beginnings in this country, grew the force of a driving dream. A dream that led to the remarkable journey that ends here today, where it all began beside the same tiny home, mail-ordered from back East, near this towering pepper tree, which back then was a mere seedling. President Nixon's journey across the American landscapes mirrored that of his entire nation in this remarkable century. His life was bound up with the striving of our whole people, with our crises and our triumphs. When he became President, he took on challenges here at home on matters from cancer research to environmental protection, putting the power of the Federal Government where Republicans and Democrats had neglected to put it in the past, and in foreign policy. He came to the Presidency at a time in our history when Americans were tempted to say we had had enough of the world. Instead, he knew we had to reach out to old friends and old enemies alike. He would not allow America to quit the world. Remarkably, he wrote nine of his ten books after he left the Presidency, working his way back into the arena he so loved by writing and thinking and engaging us in his dialogue. For the past year, even in the final weeks of his life, he gave me his wise counsel, especially with regard to Russia. One thing in particular left a profound impression on me. Though this man was in his ninth decade, he had an incredibly sharp and vigorous and rigorous mind. As a public man, he always seemed to believe the greatest sin was remaining passive in the face of challenges, and he never stopped living by that creed. He gave of himself with intelligence and energy and devotion to duty, and his entire country owes him a debt of gratitude for that service. Oh, yes, he knew great controversy amid defeat as well as victory. He made mistakes, and they, like his accomplishments, are a part of his life and record. But the enduring lesson of Richard Nixon is that he never gave up being part of the action and passion of his times. He said many times that unless a person has a goal, a new mountain to climb, his spirit will die. Well, based on our last phone conversation and the letter he wrote me just a month ago, I can say that his spirit was very much alive to the very end. That is a great tribute to him, to his wonderful wife, Pat, to his children and to his grandchildren, whose love he so depended on and whose love he returned in full measure. Today is a day for his family, his friends, and his nation to remember President Nixon's life in totality. To them, let us say: may the day of judging President Nixon on anything less than his entire life and career come to a close. May we heed his call to maintain the will and the wisdom to build on America's greatest gift, its freedom, and to lead a world full of difficulty to the just and lasting peace he dreamed of. As it is written in the words of a hymn I heard in my church last Sunday, "Grant that I may realize that the trifling of life creates differences, but that in the higher things we are all one." In the twilight of his life, President Nixon knew that lesson well. It is, I feel, certainly a fate he would want us all to keep. And so, on behalf of all four former Presidents who are here - President Ford, President Carter, President Reagan, President Bush - and on behalf of a grateful nation, we bid farewell to Richard Milhous Nixon
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