Reagan Roundtable: The Lightweight
A post from Dan form Madison at Chicago Boyz Reagan Roundtable:
Reagan Roundtable – The Lightweight
….I was 12 when Reagan got elected and the one thing that I noticed right off the bat was that it was “cool” to be an American again. Flags started to be flown more. Reagan told us repeatedly that yes, things were hosed up, but that was OK. We were Americans and we could fix it. We could fix anything. It was OK to like God. It was good to salute our military members.
We were going to take on the Russians and win. I remember asking my dad when I was a young boy if the Russians would blow us up. He always himmed and hawed with his answers. I asked him the same thing after Reagan got elected. My dad said “no way”. “Reagan won’t mess around with them.”
When Reagan was elected, my dad was struggling with his business. He would make his payments but interest rates were so high that he was going in the hole. By the time Reagan was gone and in the aftermath, things were calmed down and his business was doing very well and is to this day. He still thanks Reagan for that. It may or may not be true, but that is what he thinks and so be it.
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