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08-18-2002, 08:15 PM
Ronald Reagan, my political hero (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28649)
Rev. Jerry Falwell
Posted: August 17, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
Recent news reports indicate that the health of Ronald Reagan, our nation's 40th president, is worsening. According to a New York Daily News article, some of Mr. Reagan's friends reported that he "is steadily slipping in his terminal battle with Alzheimer's disease."
Son Michael Reagan said his 91-year-old father is "bedridden and helpless."
As I read the reports of Mr. Reagan's failing health, my mind took me back to the days of his presidency. Mr. Reagan arrived on the national political scene at a critical time. Faith in the Oval Office had deteriorated under President Carter. The immorality of our present age was taking a strong social foothold. Our economy was in turmoil.
America needed a hero.
And Ronald Reagan was such a man.
Liberals continue to portray him as not much more than a grandfatherly simpleton who yielded control of the White House to his aides and his wife, but the Ronald Reagan I knew was a man of great intelligence, grace, humor and, most importantly, Christian values.
He'll be remembered by many for championing a booming economy and conquering the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union (even though the mainstream press regularly attempts to credit Mikhail Gorbachev's alleged defense of democracy as the reason for the Soviet downfall). Anyone who believes that Ronald Reagan was the kindly dunce that the press often made him out to be needs to read the book, "Reagan In His Own Hand" to comprehend the aptitude and vision of this man.
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Rev. Jerry Falwell
Posted: August 17, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
Recent news reports indicate that the health of Ronald Reagan, our nation's 40th president, is worsening. According to a New York Daily News article, some of Mr. Reagan's friends reported that he "is steadily slipping in his terminal battle with Alzheimer's disease."
Son Michael Reagan said his 91-year-old father is "bedridden and helpless."
As I read the reports of Mr. Reagan's failing health, my mind took me back to the days of his presidency. Mr. Reagan arrived on the national political scene at a critical time. Faith in the Oval Office had deteriorated under President Carter. The immorality of our present age was taking a strong social foothold. Our economy was in turmoil.
America needed a hero.
And Ronald Reagan was such a man.
Liberals continue to portray him as not much more than a grandfatherly simpleton who yielded control of the White House to his aides and his wife, but the Ronald Reagan I knew was a man of great intelligence, grace, humor and, most importantly, Christian values.
He'll be remembered by many for championing a booming economy and conquering the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union (even though the mainstream press regularly attempts to credit Mikhail Gorbachev's alleged defense of democracy as the reason for the Soviet downfall). Anyone who believes that Ronald Reagan was the kindly dunce that the press often made him out to be needs to read the book, "Reagan In His Own Hand" to comprehend the aptitude and vision of this man.
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