Reagan Presidential Foundation president says the Reagan Library is ‘the perfect place’ for Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate
He believed that"under our free enterprise system, we have seen medicine reach the greatest heights that it has in any country in the world." "One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine." — Ronald Reagan in 1961 "Pretty soon your son won’t decide when he’s in school, where he will go, or what they will do for a living." The simplistic leftist narrative of today is that the United States was born of sin and must suffer for the evil of systemic racism.
"As a visionary, Reagan believed in a happy and productive future. Some politicians derided the ‘V’ word, but not Reagan. To him, controlling events and thus controlling the future was the job of a national leader," said Shirley. Craig Shirley is the author of four Ronald Reagan biographies, plus the upcoming 2024 release,"The Search for Reagan." The 40th president"was astonishingly clairvoyant," said Shirley.This had taken root as an unassailable status quo among geopolitical policymakers on both sides.
He labeled the Soviet Union the"Evil Empire" in March 1983, challenging Americans and the Western World to confront the true nature of communism. "Simply put, no president before him had the courage to call the Soviets evil. And they were," said Shirley. The quality of education across the United States has plummeted in the years since, from among the best in the world to among the worst in the industrialized world, according to the
"He knew they were holdover federal boondoggles from the Carter years meant as political payoffs, not to actually solve any energy or education problems. And they didn’t. Federal bureaucrats argued constantly to increase the funding for each, but Reagan had his mind on more important things like defeating an Evil Empire."
"In his farewell speech to the nation, he didn’t call on the Department of Education to teach America’s children about American history ,but rather called on parents," said Shirley.