Tribute To President Reagan



Reagan, known as "The Great Communicator," was elected to
office in a landslide victory over incumbent Democrat Jimmy
Carter in 1980 and is credited with revitalizing the
country's stagnant economy and forcing the end of the Cold
War during his two terms in office from 1981 to 1989.

His charismatic personality and staunch conservatism
led the nation in a Republican resurgence that kept
the GOP in the White House for 12 years.

Ascending to the presidency on a pledge to restore
"the great, confident roar of American progress
and growth and optimism," Reagan - a former
actor and two-term California governor - remade
the Republican Party in his own image of fiscal
and social conservatism. Reagan brought a grandfatherly
warmth to Republican issues and values that attracted
supporters across a broad political spectrum.

He successfully implemented most of his campaign promises:
reducing government bureaucracy and regulation, cutting
taxes in favor of "trickle-down, or supply-side
economics -which became known as Reaganomics and
building a strong defense while fighting the spread
of communism. These moves won him wide appeal and
an even wider margin of victory in 1984,when he
won the electoral votes of 49 states.

The role of president would prove to be more dramatic
than any screen role Reagan had assumed in his
pre-politics career in Hollywood. Just 69 days into
his first term, Reagan was shot in Washington by
John Hinckley, Jr., but his quick and full recovery
from the assassination attempt elevated him to new
levels of national popularity.

Reagan remained largely out of public view since
announcing he had Alzheimer's disease in November 1994.
He came to symbolize Alzheimer's, which has no cure,
during the last decade of his life.
Reagan turned the disclosure of his disease as an
opportunity to make a final address to the nation,
expressing in an open letter to the American people
the same patriotic fervor that had catapulted him into
the presidency.

"When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be,
I will leave with the greatest love for this country
of ours and eternal optimism for its future,"
Reagan wrote at the time. "I know that for America
there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

On Sat. June 6, 2004, the 40th president of the United
States, President Ronald Reagan passed away,
after 10 years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

"He always told us that for America the best is
yet to come," President Bush said of Reagan.
"We comfort ourselves by telling ourselves that the
same is true for him. ...
We know a shining city is waiting for him."

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mrs. Reagan and the
family. Not only America, but the world mourns
the passing of a great president.




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