Andrei.Hicks
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It's interesting mate, I will give you that. An interesting take on it.
What strikes me though is that in the poll done last year of citizens who were asked "Who if they had the choice would they want as President right now if they could pick any President from history"
Of those aged 35+, 69% said Ronald Reagan.
Reagan won 49 states out of 50 in 1984.
The 1980s mate. A safer world, a better world, socially, culturally and we all knew our place. We were the good guys, the Soviet Communists were the bad guys, and Miami Vice was on TV...
It's a bit long, but I'd love this for a signature.
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind, it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind swept, God blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace - a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors, and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.
That's how I saw it, and see it still. How Stands the City?
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that: after 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm.
And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the Pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.
We've done our part. And as I "walk off into the city streets," a final word to the men and women of the Reagan Revolution - the men and women across America who for eight years did the work that brought America back:
My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference. We made the city stronger - we made the city freer - and we left her in good hands.
All in all, not bad. Not bad at all.
And so, goodbye.
God bless you. And God bless the United States of America."
Ronald W Reagan, The White House, Jan 11 1989
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