Wow, I just realized I'm one of very few people here who was old enough the actually remember when Reagan was president.
Rest in peace, Mr. President.
Wow, I just realized I'm one of very few people here who was old enough the actually remember when Reagan was president.
Rest in peace, Mr. President.
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Regardless of what you may have thought about him as a President, there is one thing we can all agree on:
He led a heckuva life. From Sports Caster, to Actor, to Governor to President, not many people have done so much in one lifetime.
I'm not about to make this a Reagan-bashing thread, as this was more of a mourning and honoring topic. I have many, many qualms about how he ran the country, but for now, I'll submit.
Take care all.
I agree with BatChao. I wasn't alive for his presidency. But I've studied him and he wasn't SUCH a bad president, except with the whole spend spend spend mentality. And he was a very moving speaker and, I feel, worthy of the moniker "The Great Communicator".
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Even as an 'anti-Reaganite' myself, I do agree that he was a great speaker. He had a way, whether it was his or his advisors, of connecting with a lot of the 'common man'. And he did live an amazing life. Not to mention the amazing woman he married.
I remember Reagen started that winning sports teams visiting the White House.
When Georgetown won the national title and John Thompson and Patrick Ewing were on the White House lawn posing with Reagen, John received a lot of heat because Reagen wasn't really pro-African American...at least according to the NCAAs at that time.
But 93 is a good ripe ole age.
Did you know that there are only five American presidents alive right now? Ford, Carter, Bush, Clinton and Bush. Just an interesting little fact.
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a different perspective (and not negative)
also, Reagan suffered enough through his alzheimers to pay for any great injustices he may or may not have been responsible for in his life.
He was the first foreign leader I remember seeing on T.V. I don't know how old I was. Was the assassination attempt in 1981? That's the year I was born and I don't know when his term ended but I always used to think he was a nice, friendly looking man when I saw him on tele. I preferred him to Gorbachov (bad spelling probably) because he didn't look as friendly.
Someone said 93 is a good age. Yeah it is, the man led a good life from what I know. R.I.P.
Aye, 1981, pretty soon after he was inaugurated. Some nut-job named David Hinkley who thought that Jodie Foster would fall in love with him if he killed the president.Originally Posted by Doc Sark
No, I'm not kidding, either.
Not that I know personally, though - I was born two years later. My dad had yet to graduate from college by that time.
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I find it hard to care about someone I dislike. It's hard to overlook his presidency and think of him as simply a human being. I think that's my fault more than anyone else.
You must really hate him. What did he do, run over your dog?
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Always sad when a former President dies. Whatever a person might gain personally from being President, they also sacrifice a lot, in my opinion. There's probably a reason Presidents always seem to age 20 years in the span of 4.
I wouldn't call Alheizmer's suffering. You forget everything that you've done, you forget who you are...you're almost mindless. There's no remorse for nothing to remorse about.
No one, who can tell us, really knows what's happening in the mind of an Azheimers patient.
The man had a hard job that most people couldn't have done. R.I.P. Ronald Reagan.
"Aye, 1981, pretty soon after he was inaugurated. Some nut-job named David Hinkley who thought that Jodie Foster would fall in love with him if he killed the president.
No, I'm not kidding, either."
Just to point out, Hinkley was on the streets because Reagan and his Administration had cut funding to Insane Asylums in order to cut taxes.
Reagan was probably one of our greatest speakers, though you should also credit his writers, and he always had a knack for connecting with people he'd never met. Our current President could learn A LOT about giving speeches from Reagan.
Take care all.
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