Reagan socoming into office represented what i think Time Magazine is say iing here. A fresh start for so many people. Reagans hero was franklin roosevelt. Reagan was of a different party, but his hero was roosevelt because he grew up listening to him on the radio and saw in him a figure that would help restore hope to americans, the faith that better days ahead. Someone who retore stored a sense of can do spirit in americans and thats what reagan was all about. He came of age, not just in the shadow of the Great Depression and cold war, but in the shadow of the vietnam war, the disruptions of the 1970s and 1960s and for reagan, there had to be a better way. A more positive perspective. It was not enough to accept things as they were. There had to be a better way. He brought a muhao infusion of idealism that Many Americans were looking for after a decade, decade and a half following the vietnam war, the 1960s, when people were escaping rather than really seeking major fundamental chang