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In reply to the discussion: This great president has never been recognized at its fair value [View all]llmart
(15,536 posts)21. Some of us were.
I took has commitment to environmentalism very seriously back when I was a very young woman. I loved the messages he gave us about noncommercialism and giving back and reducing our fossil fuel use. I remember taking out a loan to install more insulation in the first house we bought because it was built before anyone realized that without it the heat went out the roof. We could ill afford the cost of the insulation, but felt it was important to do everything we could to follow his lead.
Then Reagan happened and the era of greed and materialism took off and a lot of people jumped on that bandwagon.
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He also gave up his career as engineer on a nuclear submarine to run that peanut farm
csziggy
Apr 2018
#1
Agree - great post about a great president. The lesser people try to besmirch anyone
erronis
Apr 2018
#17
This sounds like a "horse race" for goodness. The repuglicans are working on the other end. nt
erronis
Apr 2018
#18
He had great policies, didn't he? Unfortunately he suffered from what I call
PatrickforO
Apr 2018
#11
This is a case of a man being ahead of his time. The country was not willing to make sacrifices.
dameatball
Apr 2018
#10
You are correct. I meant the % of the country who went via Reagan and bought the lies.
dameatball
Apr 2018
#25
All Reagan had to do was tell the privileged how great they were and their lives could be perfect
Boomerproud
Apr 2018
#29
Not such a great president, but one of the very best of all human beings!
democratisphere
Apr 2018
#51