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MOURNING TODAY...NEW DAWN TOMORROW Folks, we try to pay tribute to Ronald Reagan every day by actively working to keep alive what Ronald Regan stood and fought for in the pages of News & Views. And when my family and I went to the Capitol Wednesday night to pay our last respects to the president, I did so with the thousands of you who couldn’t make it to Washington - but wanted to be there - in mind. Over the last eight years, you’ve become a part of our extended family (including the crazy ones!), so our visit was as much on your behalf as ours. Anyway, here’s a brief side-note about that visit. Now, bear in mind, there were THOUSANDS of people in line. Unidentified, average, ordinary Americans who just wanted to say “thank you” and “good-bye.” There could well have been corporate executives standing in line next to fry cooks; nobody knew...or cared. Rich man, poor man. Young and old (LOTS of young...a VERY good sign). Black and white. Men and women. It didn’t matter. We were all just...well...Americans. You know...the way Reagan would have wanted it. So what are the odds that out of that sea of average Americans, a reporter at three in the morning would pick me, of all people, to pull out of line for an interview? He didn’t know me from Adam. Didn’t recognize me for any reason. Purely at random. He had no idea I was a conservative activist and the head of a grassroots organization. Really. What are the odds? Now, to top it off, what are the odds that the reporter would be from the hyper-liberal Washington POST? And to really defy numerical possibility, despite my saying good things about our 40th president in the brief interview, what are the odds of them quoting me accurately and having those quotes actually making it into the story? (Excerpt below) With luck running like this, it might be time for Vegas, baby! Anyway, after we exited the Rotunda, we signed one of the many condolence books which will be kept at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. Our four-year-old took a couple additional lines to print out “KRISTEN” in her own four-year-old handwriting...but somehow I don’t think President Reagan would have minded. Now, I know most of you weren’t able to make it to DC in person...however, News & Views reader Curt Schmidt sent us a link where you can still sign an official online version of the Reagan condolence book if you’re so inclined. You’ll find it at: https://www.ronaldreaganmemorial.com/condolence_book.asp Lastly, thanks to a heads up from our buddy Peter Roff over at UPI, here’s a link where you can download a Reagan screensaver for your computer… http://download.com.com/3001-2390-10295451.html I’m going to spend the rest of this morning watching the final church service for President Reagan at the National Cathedral...and then get back to publishing News & Views as before...starting tomorrow. Buckle up. We have a revolution to re-ignite. We ride at dawn! THOUSANDS MAKE PILGRIMAGE TO CAPITOL Many Wait Patiently Overnight to Pay Tribute to Reagan By Eric Rich and Allan Lengel Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, June 10, 2004; 6:14 AM “They were a dedicated lot, those thousands waiting outside the Capitol in the hours before the sun came up this morning. They had crossed states, skipped work and pulled kids from school to undertake a journey that, for many, was nothing short of a pilgrimage. “They waited, some for more than five hours, for a minute or two with a closed casket in the Capitol Rotunda, where the body of Ronald Wilson Reagan lay in state. Reagan breathed hope into the nation, many said, and after the long twilight that was his last decade, they were eager to pay homage. “...As the new day dawned, the line to enter the Rotunda remained a twisting, serpentine affair, stretching from New Jersey and Independence Avenues SE to Third Street and Madison SW before snaking up the south flank of West Lawn. “In the midst of it was Chuck Muth of Baltimore, whose black Lab ‘Reagan,’ recently deceased, was named for the president. With him were his wife and two daughters, ages 2 and 4. ‘The kids probably won't remember it, but we will be able to remind them that they did get to pay their last respects to the great President Reagan," Muth said…” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30441-2004Jun10.html IN OTHER NEWS... Our “Muth’s Truths” column last weekend on the issue of drug reimportation caught the eye of The Hill - an inside-the-beltway paper for Capital Hill insiders - which interviewed me for a story they ran on the issue yesterday... “Republican support of drug reimportation amounts to nothing more than a thinly veiled election bid, said Chuck Muth, president of Citizen Outreach, a conservative public-policy group in Washington that opposes reimportation. ‘[Drug reimportation] looks good in the short term [and] they’re looking at short-term electoral gain,’ Muth said, suggesting that some GOP challengers who win because of this issue are likely to switch their position once they get into office. ‘They’re doing it for political expediency,’ he said.” You can read the full article at: http://thehill.com/campaign/061004_reimportation.aspx SOME OF OUR FAVORITE REAGANISMS “Government is not the solution, it’s the problem.” “I don’t believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. . . . (T)hat’s one of our sacred rights – to be stupid.” “Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” “Realize that the doctor’s fight against socialized medicine is your fight. You can’t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.” “If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals...recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he’ll eat you last.” “I've noticed that everybody who is for abortion has already been born.” “History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” “Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” - Ronald Reagan * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chuck Muth’s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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