Thursday (June 5) marks the 10th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s passing and a look through the MRC’s archives shows that during his presidency many in the liberal media couldn’t withhold their contempt of the conservative icon. In the closing words of the speech, he borrows from both FDR and Lincoln in a finale that soars and heralds his elevated statesmanship to come. The question is whether it is true or warranted. The strange thing is, Naftali spends very little time focusing on the actual history that he, the former director of a presidential library, should be extolling above all else. From depicting Reagan as a puppet of the rich whose economic policies were cruel towards the poor and minorities, to denying his foreign policy vision helped lead to the downfall of the Soviet Union, the media did their best to trash the 40th President. Another community, Peter, that’s quite upset with President Reagan during his time in office: The gay and lesbian community in America.
There’s still no getting around that “A Time for Choosing” is essentially a libertarian speech. For a true look into the man’s character, we present this quote from one of Reagan's final public speeches to the Republican National Convention in 1992: "And whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope that it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not our worst fears, to your confidence rather than your doubts. The normally affable and disarming Reagan was audibly furious. In a stirring expression of American exceptionalism, he declared: If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to.
The tax, spending, and debt issues so important to Reagan and to conservatives for decades have taken a back seat today — or at least deficit spending and debt have. Current | Bio | Archive. (Michael Evans/The White House/Getty Images).
Newsmax, Moneynews, Newsmax Health, and Independent. As Reagan expresses it in his own words: If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin — just in the face of this enemy? American.
It heralded the beginning of the political career of a man who would go on to be a successful two-term president, and it remains an extraordinarily powerful and cogent expression of a deeply held worldview.
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