The Late American
President Ronald Reagan died on this date, 5 June 2004. He would be 102 years
old if he was alive today. In loving memory of one of my favorite Presidents of
the U.S.A that had inspired me a lot, I will post the Pro-Life Quote of the Week
from him.
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Ronald
Reagan and Nancy Reagan aboard a boat in California, 1964.
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QUOTE: Make no mistake,
abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious
scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued
that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right. [Abortion and the
Conscience of the Nation (1983)]
AUTHOR: Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6,
1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989),
the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975), and prior to that, a radio, film
and television actor. Reagan was born in Tampico in Whiteside County, Illinois,
reared in Dixon in Lee County, Illinois, and educated at Eureka College in
Eureka, Illinois, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology.
Upon his graduation, Reagan first moved to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster
and then in 1937 to Los Angeles, California. He began a career as an actor,
first in films and later television, appearing in over 50 movie productions and
earning enough success to become a famous, publicly recognized figure. Some of
his most notable roles are in Knute Rockne, All American and Kings Row. Reagan
served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later spokesman for General
Electric; his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a
member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962.
After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential
candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship,
winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the
Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the
nomination and election, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980. As
president, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives.
His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated
reducing tax rates to spur economic growth, controlling the money supply to
reduce inflation, deregulation of the economy, and reducing government
spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard
line against labor unions, and ordered an invasion of Grenada. He was reelected
in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming that it was "Morning in America".
His second term was primarily marked by foreign matters, such as the ending of
the Cold War, the 1986 bombing of Libya, and the revelation of the Iran-Contra
affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire", he
supported anti-communist movements worldwide and spent his first term forgoing
the strategy of détente by ordering a massive military buildup in an arms race
with the USSR. Reagan negotiated with General Secretary of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, culminating in the INF Treaty and the
decrease of both countries' nuclear arsenals. Reagan left office in 1989. In
1994, the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease earlier in the year; he died ten years later at the age of
93. Although a polarizing figure to some on the American left, he often ranks
highly in public opinion polls of U.S. Presidents. Moreover, as a popular
conservative icon, he is credited for generating an ideological renaissance on
the American political right.
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