One of the top 5 greatest presidents ever to sit in the Oval Office. You were a true commander-in-chief, a warrior I was proud to serve. He'll be remembered by historians up there with Washington, Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. God bless you Ronald Reagan and may you finally be at rest after your devastating illness.
Heres one of my favorite quotes by Ronald Reagan. Reagan, Ronald (1987) "In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?" President Ronald Reagan, to the 42nd General Assembly of the United Nations, September 21, 1987 +
wow... people on this board only remember him as something from history class... When I was young, he seemed like a larger than life type of President. RIP. +
I remember Reagan pretty well, but I was still fairly young to recall all of his little intricacies. Watching all these retrospectives about him has been really cool and very eye opening - who knew the 80's were so long ago. All in all a nice celebration of his life and it was quite a life.
Also thought I should mention the fact that he took a bullet while he was president. Often times we forget that although being president has a lot of perks, it also has big security risks. Anyone who chooses to be president... for the rest of their life has to have security because they know they could always be a target. good man who survived an attempted murder.. his service is appreciated
"Thomas Jefferson once said, “We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.” And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying." - Ronald Reagan +
I'm at my parent's house house. My mother loves Turner Classic Movies. She was watching On The Water Front. I turned the television back on and a Reagan movie is on. It's called Storm Warning. I'm not gonna finish it because I'm also watching Band Of Brothers but it's totally tripped out. Reagan is playing a District Attorney investigating a Klu Klux Klan murder. The movie is from 1951. You can look it up but really quickly, Doris Day plays a woman who comes to a small town to visit her sister. She witnesses the murder getting off the bus, the Kllan drug a reporter out of jail who was investigating Klan activity. Her brother in law is a Klansman which she didn't know but she sees him. Reagan knows she was there, so forth and so on. I'm just shocked that Hollywood portrayed the evil of the Klan as early as 1951. The movie also has some black actors as random townspeople. On The Waterfront actually has Bllacks with speaking roles. Lastly, Black people didn't like Reagan and he was against things affirmative active. That being said I didn't think Reagan was racist. I really think it's about his conservative views. Edit:I now realize this is in the Hangout. I did think about that, I did think this thread may have predated the D&D
