We Salute and Pay Tribute to A Great American
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation U S A Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 4, 2004), the fortieth President of The United States of America. President Reagan would be 100 years old this coming Sunday were he still with us. I am sure many share my fond remembrances of a man larger than life. Reagan began his political leanings as a Democrat. However, as the party shifted ever further to the progressive left the man who was both instrumental in pulling the nation from the devastating super inflation and malaise of the Carter Presidency, and engineering the downfall of the Soviet Union, changed parties and became a Republican wen he was a young man. President Reagan was known to say he didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left him. It is interesting that my father, born in 1932 and a long time Democrat, has expressed these same sentiments many times. Today he is a fiercely proud independent who feels h...