Fifty-eight years ago today, Ronald Wilson Reagan began his path to greatness when he married Nancy Davis. The Gipper was born good; she made him great.
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Fifty-eight years ago today, Ronald Wilson Reagan began his path to greatness when he married Nancy Davis. The Gipper was born good; she made him great.
Congrats to Ron & Nancy!!!!
But am I alone in thinking that the statement is just a little over the top.
I realize they have one of the greatest love stories to be told.
But really?
They represent a time when grownups lived in the White House. The President wasn’t a socialist and the First Lady didn’t express hostility toward America. I think a lot of people miss that.
Mr. and Mrs. Reagan didn’t seem to be a calculated power-couple, like the Clintons, but were obviously genuinely devoted to each other. They rank right up there, in my opinion, with George and Martha, John and Abigail and James and Dolly.
It made me feel a little better to see that picture today.
If I comment about this post, “That’s so gay,” does that mean marriage is also gay?
Hate to break the news to you Lori. But the Reagan’s were one of the great power couples of today. Granted they were a lot more covert on how it was handled(i.e. The First Lady rolling a Birthday Cake out to end a press conference, Marine One always running as the President was leaving so he would not be able to hear Reporters questions)
The proper statement may be that the Reagan’s may have been the most recent Power Couple with CLASS!!! to the extreme that when watching them you felt proud to say “That’s the President and First Lady of the United States my Country.”
“The proper statement may be that the Reagan’s may have been the most recent Power Couple with CLASS!!!”
True enough. For me, in itself, that induces nostalgia.
I can’t consider turning a deaf ear to a soon to be epidemic disease because it only affected homosexuals to be classy. A President should hear all of American’s citizens.
“I can’t consider turning a deaf ear to a soon to be epidemic disease because it only affected homosexuals to be classy.”
That’s been a standard liberal meme for years, and the fact that it’s been widely disputed will, of course, do nothing to silence those who keep on parroting it.
Many dispute it, including Rock Hudson’s own bereaved partner, who considered the Reagans close personal friends. The gay journalist Dale Carpenter, though not totally uncritical of Reagan’s conduct during the AIDS crisis, also disputes the official story in his Independent Gay Forum article, “Reagan and AIDS: A Reassessment”:
http://www.indegayforum.org/news/show/26671.html
The article was originally published June 24, 2004 in the Bay Area Reporter.
No mention from our resident liberals, of course, of Proposition 6, better known as the Briggs Initiative, which looked sure to pass in California in 1978. The measure would have banned all gays and lesbians from teaching in California schools. Then a presidential hopeful, Reagan put his political career on the line to stand against it, and almost on the strength of that alone, it was defeated.
An informative article on this is “Why Reagan Was a Better Friend to Gays Than Obama,” by John T. Simpson on the blog “Big Hollywood” on May 8, 2009:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/05/08/why-reagan-was-a-better-friend-to-gays-than-obama/
Any Googling of the subject will, of course, bring up a flood of the standard-issue Reagan hatred, but some articles refuting it will come up as well.
Lori – thanks for the info. A re-assessment may indeed be in order.
🙂 I don’t know about as a couple, but Mrs. Reagan was certainly a cold and calculating and really took no effort to hide it in her years in the White House. The control she exercised over who had access to her husband. Her “and to think we had him at the White House” comment about Rock Hudson. Her very un-gracious and public cattiness towards Raisa Gorbachev. Her ludicrous anti-drug campaign of “just say no”.
As for Briggs, the support was made by Ronald Reagan, but I don’t think I ever knew/saw Nancy’s position on it. Also, let’s not forget that Reagan very easily cozied up to groups like the moral majority, setting a path of alliance with virulently anti-gay religious zealots which continues to haunt them 30 years later. Republicans should’a listened to Barry Goldwater. Maybe if they did, gay conservatives wouldn’t have to defend themselves so much.
“Republicans should’a listened to Barry Goldwater. Maybe if they did, gay conservatives wouldn’t have to defend themselves so much.”
No disagreement there.