I did not get a chance to email out his bio. Maybe, thebably, important critical , ther of the reagan legacy reagan flame, in america today. Frank work on the 1976 Reagan Campaign, he worked on the 1980 campaign. He worked in the reagan white house, he worked in the 1984 campaign, and he has also been longtime chairman of the reagan ranch, one of the three major touchstones in american politics today. If you know anything about the Ronald Reagan library, there is a reagan ranch. And we learned about Eureka College last week in illinois. So thank you for being here. Let me get right into it, and then the students, of course, will ask questions. You organized the very first conservative clinical action political 1973 action conference in 1973. Frank 1974. Craig right. And reagan spoke. Frank first of all, thank you very much for having me. It is great to be here with all of your students. Baseball player who used to play for the Union New York yankees, yogi bear y ogi barra, had a tenden
Of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. John thank you, please be seated. In the fall of 1988, when president Ronald Reagan broke ground at the site of his future president ial library, im not sure he could have imagined that his foundation, the one bearing his name, would one day also be operating a robust institute in washington, d. C. , one just steps from the white house he would soon leave behind for his beloved homeland ranch in the west. However, i do know that todays celebration honoring Justice Sandra day oconnor is exactly the type of gathering in his name that he envisioned. History intrinsically links president reagan and Justice Oconnor, and it is an honor and a privilege for the Reagan Foundation and institute to host this forum. Before we begin our celebration, i would like to express our gratitude to our friends in the room who still carry the flame of our 40th president
Shine for the rest of your life tamron we are back now at megan phelpsroper whose family started the Westboro Baptist church, known as a hate group that is protested samesex marriagewhich included a protesting at funerals for fallen soldiers. So you are telling audiences at home and hear how you are now on twitter, 2009, you are running into people who are challenging what you have been told your entire life and some of it is starting to click to you. Exactly. The fineness internal inconsistency. Westboro ideology is a very closed system so any arguments that would cause you to doubt the primary things we believe which was that the bible was the literal and infallible word of god and westboro has the only true interpretation of it and anything else was wrong. And egg argument that came from the outside of it we couldnt hear it. We had all these bible verses to dismiss those things but the fact that it was an internal can inconsistency that was a thread that began to unravel the rest of
And institute. Thank you all for coming out this afternoon. If you would, in honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. [in unison] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. John thank you, please be seated. In the fall of 1988 when president Ronald Reagan broke ground at the sight of his site of his future president ial library, im not sure he could have imagined that his foundation, the one bearing his name, would one day also be operating a robust institute in washington, d. C. , one just steps from the white house he would soon leave behind for his beloved homeland ranch in the west. However, i do know that todays celebration honoring Justice Sandra day oconnor is exactly the type of gathering in his name that he envisioned. History intrinsically links president r
I believe every word of that. This afternoon the president said the deal was exactly what the entire world need. It is a great day for the United States. It is a great day for turkey. Its a great day for the kurds, its really a great day for civilization. Its a great day for civilization. Kennedy turkey does not need a great day, they deserve no more great days. We cannot trust turkey, we never could and we never will. I will continue, they have only agreed to stop shooting for five days. They wont even call it ceasefire. In fact, right after the deal was announced turkeys foreign minister said, this is not a ceasefire, we will pause operation for 120 hours in order for the terrorist to leave. We will only stop the operation at our conditions are met. And then he put laser beams on sharks and speakers on both sides of the aisle said the president s decision to pull back u. S. Troops in syria was a horrible one. Many of the president s closest republican allies said the decision is a da