by jpitney | Sep 16, 2024 | Reagan
Michael Reagan: Hollywood can’t always be trusted to accurately portray reality or history, to say the least. But I fully enjoyed watching the facts go by in the premier of “Reagan,” which I saw this week at the famous Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. “Reagan,”...
by jpitney | Aug 16, 2024 | Reagan
Vice President George H.W. Bush to President Ronald Reagan, August 16, 1988: Well, Mr. President and Nancy, hail and farewell. You know, a great scientist, Isaac Newton, once said: “If I’ve seen further, it’s because I’ve stood on the shoulder...
by jpitney | Aug 1, 2024 | Immigration, Reagan
September 20, 1986 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Americans are a unique people, a colorful tapestry of traditions and cultures woven into one vibrant society. The motto graven on our coins — E Pluribus Unum — reflects the...
by jpitney | Jul 14, 2024 | Reagan, Religion, Violence
Tuesday, March 31, 1981 Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breathe it seemed I was getting less & less air. I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed. But I realized I couldn’t ask for Gods help while at the...
by jpitney | Jul 4, 2024 | Patriotism, Reagan
President Reagan, July 4, 1986: All through our history, our Presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real obstacle to moving forward the boundaries of freedom, the only permanent danger to the hope that is America, comes from...
by jpitney | Jun 6, 2024 | Europe, Foreign Policy, Military, Reagan
President Reagan, June 6, 1984: In spite of our great efforts and successes, not all that followed the end of the war was happy or planned. Some liberated countries were lost. The great sadness of this loss echoes down to our own time in the streets of Warsaw, Prague,...
