by jpitney | Sep 25, 2022 | Reagan, Uncategorized
Justin Wm. Moyer at WP: Channy Laux, 60, is the granddaughter of a refugee from communist China who fled to Cambodia. She was 13 when the communist Khmer Rouge, which would eventually kill almost 2 million people, took over Cambodia in 1975. Her father and brother...
by jpitney | Sep 21, 2022 | Democracy, Insurrection, Reagan
Rep. Liz Cheney: I’ve had three people in my life tell me that it was the words of Ronald Reagan and the model of America that led them to seek freedom here. One was an immigrant who grew up in Castro’s totalitarian regime. Another was a young man who grew up behind...
by jpitney | Jun 8, 2022 | Democracy, Reagan
Forty years ago today, President Reagan spoke to the British Parliament: No, democracy is not a fragile flower. Still it needs cultivating. If the rest of this century is to witness the gradual growth of freedom and democratic ideals, we must take actions to assist...
by jpitney | Jan 28, 2022 | Reagan, Science, Space
On this date in 1986, the Challenger disaster took place. President Reagan addressed the nation: Ladies and gentlemen, I’d planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans....
by jpitney | Jun 14, 2021 | China, Reagan
H.R. McMaster at National Review: President Ronald Reagan’s speech in June 1987, delivered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, is immortalized because of the exhortation, “Mr. Gobachev, tear down this wall.” Those words and that speech are often credited with...
by jpitney | May 29, 2021 | Claremont McKenna College, Dreier, Reagan
