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Two different visions for America. President Reagan launched his effort to return America to greatness with simple but profound words during his first inaugural speech, “In the present times Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.”
Source: Americans for Prosperity
Remember when America had a real president? We do.
Source: Ronald Reagan First Inaugural Address – January 20, 1981
Tomorrow, February 6, 2011 – marks the 100th anniversary of President Reagan’s birth. It begins a year’s worth of events, educational programs, and initiatives that the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation is sponsoring to celebrate President Reagan’s Centennial.
This is a great moment for the conservative movement to remember its greatest champion and also reflect on President Reagan’s enduring legacy.
Today, we are proud to announce a special partnership with YouTube.com. Starting Friday, February 5, at 9:00 AM PST, the Reagan Foundation will curate a section of the YouTube.com homepage devoted to Ronald Reagan. We hope you enjoy the videos we have selected, some of which you’ve probably never seen before. YouTube.com’s tribute to Ronald Reagan ends on Saturday, February 5, at 9:00 PM PST, so be sure to check out the video selection while you can.
Come celebrate with us!
Join our Facebook page at facebook.com/ronaldreagan
Follow us on twitter at RONALDREAGAN40
Subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com/ReaganFoundation
This is a great way to stay informed on all the Centennial activities the Foundation has planned throughout the year, as well as post a tribute to America’s 40th President on our wall.
The Reagan Foundation salutes this year’s CPAC. Your hard work and commitment to the conservative ideals President Reagan fought for all his life is just another tribute to this great nation.
Source: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT!
This year, the Narragansett Republican Town Committee is commemorating the centennial birthday of President Ronald Wilson Reagan. Please join us for what promises to be an exciting evening — the only one of its kind here in Rhode Island celebrating the legacy of President Reagan. Helen Glover of WHJJ will be emcee for the evening. Guest speakers include John Robitaille, Erik Wallin, and Representative Doreen Costa (R- Dist. 31). Come out on a cold winter’s night and enjoy a fabulous dinner, the camaraderie of your fellow Republicans and be inspired!
Date: Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Turtle Soup, Ocean Road, Narragansett
Tickets: $25 per person / $40 couple
Tickets are being sold in advance in order to afford Turtle Soup a proper head count. Please mail your check by Feb. 1 payable to the “Narragansett Republican Town Committee” to: Mrs. Philip Duquette, 17 Shadbush Trail, Saunderstown, RI 02874.
Today is the 66th anniversary of “D-Day,” the day which the American and British liberation of Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany began.
President Ronald Reagan delivered a stirring address marking the 40th anniversary of D-Day, on June 6th, 1984, in Normandy, France. Many of the men who survived the storming the beaches at Normandy were in his presence as he delivered his remarks.
“These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.”
Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday will be on February 6, 2011. General Electric and the Reagan Foundation today launched their partnership for the “Reagan centennial,” which will result in a number of events to occur over the next year leading up to his birthday.
GE’s participation as a Presenting Sponsor includes:
$10 Million in the form of cash, advertising and promotion to support the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration, including funds to support the completely transformed, state-of-the-art Museum at the Reagan Library that will be unveiled on February 5, 2011. This will include a new General Electric Theater that will focus on Reagan’s career in radio, television, and film.
An additional $5 million to the Reagan Presidential Foundation to launch and support the GE-Reagan Scholars Program, an effort that will begin in 2011 and that will provide 200 four-year college scholarships over the next decade to deserving students who embody the vision and values personified by President Reagan.
A donation to the Reagan Foundation of 208 restored episodes of General Electric Theater in which Ronald Reagan hosted or appeared from 1954-1962. The episodes, many of which were thought to be lost and some of which were damaged, were recently uncovered in GE/NBC Universal archives and restored to broadcast quality for purposes of the renovated Reagan Museum.
An ad campaign and interactive Internet presence located at www.ge.com/reagan to promote the Centennial and honor President Reagan’s service to our nation and time with GE. TV, radio and print advertisements in support of the Centennial that will remind audiences of Reagan’s optimistic spirit as well as his legacy at both GE and as President can be found on this site.
A series of public affairs lectures with Reagan-era luminaries that will focus on President Reagan’s legacy and qualities as a leader. The events will take place at venues around the country with details to be announced in the coming months.
Source: General Electric
…In a high-speed culture in which politics is conducted in the short-hand of sound-bites, the 2010 election can be easily summarized by the last names of the two presidents immutably identified with their respective governing philosophies, making the first national election of the 21st century’s second decade a virtual War of the Presidents. It will beget one simple question. Are you Reagan or Obama?…
For Obama to remake America from the bottom up into a statist utopia as long envisioned by American and European “progressives.” To fundamentally change — forever — the role of government in everyday American life. To remove as much individual liberty and freedom as they can get away with and replace it with government control, on the old theory that only economic and political elites can correctly order the affairs of the average man and woman. Making of America a quasi-socialist state on the model favored by leftists of one stripe or another for all or parts of three centuries. If the Obama progressives could manage it, the idea would be to drop the “quasi” altogether…
Read More: The American Spectator
In a world of political correctness and Christmas culture wars, Reagan’s national address is almost unbelievable! It is a breath of fresh Christmas air! What happened to the politicians like him who are not afraid to hold fast to the Christian faith despite what others think or say about their Christmas beliefs? God help us by sending more like him back into our country (and soon)!
It’s hard to believe it’s been 45 years since this great speech. We’re still choosing. Will we choose freedom?
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments’ programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth…”
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”
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