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| Fri, 06-11-2004 - 2:30pm |
If you didn't get a chance to see it, the highlights to look out for are Lady Thatcher's video-taped tribute (she was in DC, but her own doctors have advised her against public speaking). George W. I thought did a good job as well, and at one point George Sr's voice broke in remembering his former boss. Danforth's message was one of hope in faith - the same faith Reagan had. I'd have to say Thatcher summed it all up best, though.
I was reading some quotes from a book that I have, "The Reagan Wit". I'd like to share a few.
On welfare: "Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for it's own existence."
At a National Prayer Breakfast that happened to be held on his birthday (file away for future reference!): "Nancy and I are delighted to be here and I want to thank you for the day in my life you recognized in starting off my celebration of my 31st anniversary of my 39th birthday."
He told this joke in a speech before the World Affairs Council - Gorbachev found this very funny: "An American and a Russian are arguing about their two countries. The American said, "Look, I can go into the oval office, pound the President's desk and say, 'Mr. President, I don't like the way you're running our country.'" The Russian said "I can do that." The American said "You can?" And the Russian said "I can go into the Kremlin, into the general secretary's office, I can pound on his desk and say, 'Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way President Reagan is running his country.'""
While visiting the Canadian parliament, Reagan commented on the demonstrators who protested his visit: "They must have been imported to make me feel at home."
Speaking to reporters by phone: "Well, I'm up at Camp David. We're getting a little used to it now, but I have to tell you the first time I came to this place, to Camp David, Ed Meese sewed name tags in my undershorts and T-shirts."
And the one that made me laugh out loud: "A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist."

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Edited 6/11/2004 4:50 pm ET ET by cussette

I watched it too and had a sinus
~~Rhonda~~
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You both said it so well..I only had two tapes and wanted Eric to see what moved me....so I found myself editing down to fit on 4 hrs of tapes.
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