Guest: Fernando Hernandez, author of "The Cubans". We discussed the life and times of Martin Dihigo, Cuban baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame..........
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - President Ronald Reagan
Dec 23, 1783:
George Washington resigned as commander in chief of the Continental Army but he'd be back in 1788 to serve two terms as the first president of the US....died in 1799
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"George Bush is a hero to me because he has courage. The President does what he believes to be in the best interest of the United States. He sticks with his beliefs, no matter how intense the criticism and invective that are directed against him every day."Koch was right. My guess is that historians will agree with Mr. Koch.
How about a little history?
We started this blog on October 29, 2004 by predicting the reelection of Bush 52-47% and about 300 electoral votes. It turned out 51-48% and 286 EVs. I was wrong about New Jersey. I thought that New Jersey would flip for Bush because of all of the corruption and Democrat scandals in that state.
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We remember this weekend another anniversary of President Reagan’s death. It was not a shock because the President’s health had declined. Nevertheless, it was a sad day and the funeral was worth watching it.
By now, I’m sure that you’ve heard everything about President Reagan, from his sense of humor to those wonderful speeches that he left us. What’s better than Reagan’s 1964 speech supporting Senator Goldwater?
I did not catch up with this one until I joined the Reagan 1976 campaign as a volunteer. I went out to hand out some brochures and my partner that day mentioned the speech. We did not have videos back then, so I read it. Frankly, every freedom-loving American should read it. A line from the transcript hit home and I remember sharing it with my parents:
Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We don’t know how lucky we are.” And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to.” And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
Isn’t that the truth? What about his nomination speech from 1980? I watched this one on TV and it was very good. Or his D-Day speech from 1984? My favorite Reagan speech. I learned later just how important this speech when I met Bob Jagers, author, church friend, and D-Day veteran, who died in 2021. Or his “Tear down this wall” speech from June 1987? I watched this one holding our first son, who was about 20 days old. Even the “I knew Thomas Jefferson” speech from the 1992 GOP Convention still cracks me up! I think that this was his last public appearance but he brought down the house with that line.
My very favorite Reagan story has a special meaning because my mother died a year ago. Back in 1984, she worked very hard to become a U.S. citizen. She studied and memorized everything. We finally took her down to the convention center for the swearing in ceremony. She became a U.S. citizen and in Spanish said something like: “I’m ready to vote for Reagan”.
Today I’ll remember President Reagan and my late mother who admired him so much.
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