Reagan’s enduring message for Republicans as they do battle in the 2024 campaign
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My first political memory is being with my parents at an election night watch party in Show Low, Arizona, in 1976. They had been supporters of Ronald Reagan against Gerald Ford in the primary but had united with the party against Gov. Jimmy Carter. When Carter was declared the winner, my mother started to cry and said, “Now the Soviets are going win.”
Eleven years later, on June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan would stand at the Brandenburg Gate and say, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
This moment in Berlin is captured beautifully in the movie “Reagan,” starring Dennis Quaid in the title role and Penelope Ann Miller as his beloved wife, Nancy. It is a must-see.
President Ronald Reagan, with his arm around Nancy, waves to the White House staff as
