Interesting Article

[Buckley]

43rd’s Tribute to the 40th
President Bush gives tribute to the Reagan legacy.

By Gleaves Whitney

February is the month Americans have set aside to remember U.S. presidents. So which presidents does George W. Bush like to remember? He recently gave an interview to the Washington Times in which he discussed the handful of commanders in chief who have fascinated or taught him the most. Intentionally or not, Bush delved into the big-three presidents with February birthdays. Because of Iraq, he said, he has a renewed appreciation of George Washington, who reminds us how difficult it is to establish a constitutional republic. And Lincoln, he observed, was our greatest president because, when the nation was at war with itself, he never swerved from his mission to pull the country back together; President Bush keeps a portrait of Lincoln in the Oval Office.

But his most telling comments were about the president whose birthday was this weekend: Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, and would have turned 94 years old yesterday. "You know," Bush told the Washington Times, "I think if I had to have a mentor, a public figure that reminded me on a regular basis about the power of freedom and liberty, it would have been Ronald Reagan."

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I thought this was interesting. It's been over fifteen years since Reagan was President but his influence is still great.

[Dutch]

Reagan’s legacy will only grow with each passing day while the legacy of ARAIPOTUS will continue to diminish to nothing more than a stained blue dress, a musty cigar, the scarlet letter “I”, and the fostering of terrorism within the United States.

[Liberty]

President Reagan is a man we should all aspire to be more like, IMHO.