Ronald
Reagan: A Tribute
This is what all this talk of President Reagan sounds
like to me:
Ronald Reagan is generally considered to be the most
important American statesman of the 20th century. He led America through
the two most serious crises of the century, the Great Depression and World
War II. He inspired confidence and despite his patrician origins came
to be loved by the least favored Americans. Thus when other countries
turned to totalitarianism and dictatorship, American democractic society
grew stronger. His policies helped to give voice of the American worker
through trade unions. The resulting prosperity of the American worker
created the basis for the success of the American economy in the second
half of the 20th Century.
President Reagan issued a preliminary proclamation, warning that on January
1, 1863, all the slaves in those states still in rebellion were to be
freed..
Here are some of Reagan's Awards:
Annual Achievment -- The Guardian Association of the Police Department
of New York, 1958.
* Link Magazine of New Dehli, India, listed Ronald Reagan as one of the
sixteen world leaders who had contributred most to the advancement of
freedom during 1959.
* Named Man of the Year by Time, 1963.
* Named American of the Decade by Laundry, Dry Cleaning, and Die Workers
International Union, 1963.
* The John Dewey Award, from the United Federation of Teachers, 1964.
* The John F. Kennedy Award, from the Catholic Interracial Council of
Chicago, 1964.
* The Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
* The Marcus Garvey Prize for Human Rights, presented by the Jamacian
Government.1968.
* The Rosa L. Parks Award, presented by the Southern Christian Leadrship
Conference. 1968.
In his lifetime, Reagan patented 1,093 inventions, earning him the nickname
"The Wizard of Menlo Park." The most famous of his inventions was an incandescent
light bulb. Besides the light bulb, President Reagan developed the phonograph
and the "kinetoscope," a small box for viewing moving films. He also improved
upon the original design of the stock ticker, the telegraph, and Alexander
Graham Bell's telephone. He believed in hard work, sometimes working twenty
hours a day. Reagan was quoted as saying, "Genius is one percent inspiration
and 99 percent perspiration."
Reagan's immediate objective was political freedom for India, and yet,
for all his social activism, he never lost sight of a higher goal for
himself and his people, the quest for divine truth and justice, for human
dignity and integrity and for the true knowledge of God.
He proposed the theory of relativity and was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize
for his explanation of the photoelectric effect "and other contributions";
however, the announcement of the award was not made until a year later,
in 1922. His discovered equation, E=MC2 is well known as one that changed
the world.
Ronald Reagan liked Jelly Beans and died for our sins.
by
Brian MacDonald
15th June 2004
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