When President Reagan first took office I wasn't even a fetus yet. When I was young, I had no idea, no concept of what a great man he was. The Cold War was this vague distant idea to me because by the time I was old enough to be afraid of the end of the world, the Cold War was over. And I never knew who to thank for that, I never knew there was something to be thankful for, until I started studying history on my own, away from the biases of my liberal high school teachers.

I remember watching this interview on FoxNews with Michael Reagan awhile back, around the time Miracle came out, and Mr. Reagan was asked what he thought President Reagan would feel was his own proudest achievement. Mr. Reagan responded by beginning to talk about Miracle and how in that movie (set in 1980) you can really see how America was discouraged and down on itself at that time...the Soviets were winning, the liberals in our own country were busy convincing everyone maybe the commies weren't so bad after all (they only killed twenty plus million of their own people)...we lost our sense of right and wrong and the belief that we were on the side of "good." Americans had lost their faith in America. Then President Reagan took office and he told Americans that the Soviets were the "evil empire," that we were fighting the good fight...he restored our belief in ourselves. And that is what Michael Reagan thought his father was most proud of.

I'm not sure what else to say. But, I guess because of the Alzheimer's, this was for the best. At least now he's in Heaven. I just wanted to finally say thanks I guess.

UPDATE: I found this quote on Serenity's Journal...

"What I'd really like to do is go down in history as the President who made Americans believe in themselves again."

So I guess Michael Reagan wasn't just guessing hehe.