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Well you guessed it, today is Mr. Reagan’s birthday…
I hardly know where to start with this one; I realize that Reagan remains a controversial figure today, but this isn’t a political blog as a rule, so I’ll let others discuss that side of the man.
One thing, though… even if a person disagrees with his politics, which is hard for me to follow, he is hard not to like as a person.
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I well recall him as Governor of California, having grown up there in the 1960’s; lots of people were griping that he was cutting this and cutting that… yet even at a young age it occurred to me that if someone were complaining about ‘cutting’ things, they were completely forgetting that in order to pay for those things, the money had to be taken from someone else. Nobody ever wanted to talk about that! Oh, sorry, I wasn’t going to go there was I?
OK: Back on track now!
Since we are coming from a Christian perspective here, I have a favorite Reagan story for you. When Mr. Reagan was in the White House and it was time for the annual prayer breakfast one year, Mr. Reagan decided that he would give the blessing himself; after all they were eating at “his” table, right? The protocol and legal people gave him the briefing: There can be no mention of Jesus Christ, all prayers must be ‘non-sectarian’ and so forth… and no matter what, you cannot end the prayer “in Jesus’ name”.
When it came time for the blessing for the meal, President Ronald Reagan gave his prayer before all of the cameras and microphones and ended “in Jesus’ name, Amen.”
Asked later about it, Mr. Reagan is reported to have said, “I’m sorry, but I don’t know any other way to pray.”
And to that all I can say is that you Sir, and Happy Birthday!
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Favorite Reagan story – 18 years old… freshman at college. Ronald Reagan came to candidate. I didn’t have a clue who he was. 33 years later, I can still remember his words, and I can still remember how he inspired me. He was an amazing orator, and I’ve never met anyone with a presence like his. By the time he was done speaking, I wanted to stand up and sing “God Bless America.” I sure appreciated the kind of man he was! He made me feel safe … as though he was in charge and wasn’t going to back down to anyone or anything.
Mr. Reagan was an amazing man that’s for sure. When I was 18 back in ’76, I went to Texas working on the advance team for the last 2 weeks before the Texas primary. I was skipping school and didn’t tell my parents I was going, since they would never have allowed it. School didn’t matter since I had no classes my last semester, i just had to sign a sheet every day so they’d collect money from the sate, and a buddy covered that for me, but since I was still grounded for getting a “B” in English Lit the year before, i couldn’t tell my parents. They figured out where I was when they saw me on the news. The night I got back home, just before the storm burst with my parents, the phone rang; it was Gov. Reagan calling to thank them for “letting” me go to Texas and telling them how lucky they are to have such a great son and all that sort of thing. Whew! Saved me… he’s been my hero ever since! (Yes, he had found out I was AWOL)
That is a GREAT story! And wow, grounded for getting a “B” – tough crowd – LOL 🙂
LOL, you didn’t pull the wool over my Dad’s eyes, for me English Lit was an automatic “A”
If it was a math class, I would have been fine with a B.