Nor could they murder the Pope that year, for surely it was a bad year
for the Assassins.......
And note, Reagan, Kennedy, McKinley all assassinated, were Irish
(McKinley Scotch Irish)......Ambrose Bierce it is said was run out of
the country (on his own) for a curious little quantrain he wrote for
Hearst, his boss - Goebbels was Govenor of Kentucky as I recall he had
been assassinated (not just wounded) - but newspapers some have a
tendency don't they of putshing some and certain people to their graves
so who controls the news media?
By Ambrose Bierce
The bullet that pierced Goebells breast,
Cannot be found in all the west....
Good reason it is speeding here -
To place McKinley, on the Bier.
And within a matter of days, McKinley way lying on the bier having been
assassinated - Bierce took off to Mexico.
Don't know much about McKinley but that he was Irish and marked for
murder by someone's front man. You see some of this is Premeditated
Murder by Prophecy - one ha a pen, and the other a gun so Bierce and
Dixon scored in combination 3 hits, by prophecy aided by the assassins
and both no doubt infiltrated many different orders. Both were paid
much for their gainsaying for their masters.
Might add Bierce and Hearst were all Rosicrucians -
The Pope and Reagan - survivied. in 1981
The Pope and JFK - died in 1963
Strange the desire to kill the ones with the most charisma, but no other
way to beaat them - right........
OSaba
RONALD REAGAN
by Peggy Noonan:
In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be
brilliant; Harry Truman wasn't brilliant, and he helped save Western
Europe from Stalin.
He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever. White Houses are
always full of quick-witted people with ready advice on how to flip a
senator or implement a strategy. You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy
and bring in policy wonks.
But you can't buy courage and decency, you can't rent a strong moral
sense. A president must bring those things with him. If he does, they
will give meaning and animation to the great practical requirement of
the presidency: He must know why he's there and what he wants to do. He
has to have thought it through. He needs to have, in that much maligned
word, but a good one nontheless, a vision of the future he wishes to
create. This is a function of thinking, of the mind, the brain.
But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the
character--the courage and heart--to see it through....
(Reagan) had the vision. Did he have the courage without which it would
be nothing but a poignant dream? Yes. At the core of Reagan's character
was courage, a courage that was, simply, natural to him, a courage that
was ultimately contagious. When people say President Reagan brought back
our spirit and our sense of optimism, I think what they are saying in
part is, the whole country caught his courage.
There are many policy examples, but I believe when people think of his
courage, they think first of what happened that day in March 1981 when
he was shot. He tried to walk into the hospital himself but his knees
buckled and he had to be helped. They put him on a gurney, and soon he
started the one-liners. Quoting Churchill, he reminded everyone that
there's nothing so exhilarating as to be shot at without effect.
To Mrs. Reagan, it was, "Honey, I forgot to duck." To the doctors, "I
just hope you're Republicans." To which one doctor replied, "Today Mr.
President we're all Republicans." Maybe he caught Reagan's courage too.
But Reagan the political figure had a form of courage that I think is
the hardest and most demanding kind. A general will tell you that anyone
can be brave for five minutes; the adrenaline pumps, you do things of
which you wouldn't have thought yourself capable.
But Reagan had that harder and more exhausting courage, the courage to
swim against the tide. And we all forget it now because he changed the
tide. Looking back, we forget that the political mood of today, in which
he might find himself quite comfortable, is quite different from the
political mood the day he walked into politics.
But he had no choice, he couldn't not swim against the tide. In the
fifties and sixties all of his thoughts and observations led him to
believe that Americans were slowly but surely losing their freedoms.
When he got to Hollywood as a young man in his twenties, he shared and
was impressed by the general thinking of the good and sophisticated
people of New York and Hollywood with regard to politics. He was a
liberal Democrat, as his father was, and he felt a great attachment to
the party. He was proud that his father had refused to take him and his
brother Moon to the movie, Birth of a Nation, with its racial
stereotypes.
And he bragged that his father, Jack, a salesman, had, back long ago
when Reagan was a kid, once spent the night in his car rather than sleep
in a hotel that wouldn't take Jews. Ronald Reagan as a young man was a
Roosevelt supporter, he was all for FDR, and when he took part in his
first presidential campaign he made speeches for Harry Truman in 1948.
When Reagan changed, it was against the tide. It might be said that the
heyday of modern political liberalism, in its American manifestation,
was the 1960s, when the Great Society began and the Kennedys were
secular saints and the costs of enforced liberalism were not yet
apparent.
And that is precisely when Reagan came down hard right, all for
Goldwater in 1964. This was very much the wrong side of the fashionable
argument to be on; it wasn't a way to gain friends in influential
quarters, it wasn't exactly a career-enhancing move. But Reagan thought
the conservatives were right. So he joined them, at the least
advantageous moment, the whole country going this way on a twenty-year
experiment, and Reagan going that way, thinking he was right and
thinking that sooner or later he and the country were going to meet in a
historic rendezvous.
His courage was composed in part of intellectual conviction and in part
of sheer toughness.
When we think of Reagan, we think so immediately of his presidency that
we tend to forget what came before. What came before 1980 was 1976--and
Reagan's insurgent presidential bid against the incumbent Republican
President Jerry Ford. Ford was riding pretty high, he was the good man
who followed Nixon after the disgrace of Watergate; but Ford was a
moderate liberal Republican, and Reagan thought he was part of the
problem, so he declared against him.
He ran hard. And by March 1976 he had lost five straight primaries in a
row. He was in deep trouble--eleven of twelve former chairmen of the
Republican National Committee called on him to get out of the race, the
Republican Conference of Mayors told him to get out, on March 18 the Los
Angeles Times told him to quit. The Reagan campaign was $2 to $3 million
in debt, and they were forced to give up their campaign plane for a
small leased jet, painted yellow, that they called "The Flying Banana."
On March 23, they were in Wisconsin, where Reagan was to address a bunch
of duck hunters. Before the speech, Reagan and his aides gathered in his
room at a dreary hotel to debate getting out of the race. The next day
there would be another primary, in North Carolina, and they knew they'd
lose. Most of the people in the room said,
"It's over, we have no money, no support, we lost five so far and
tomorrow we lose six."
John Sears, the head of the campaign, told the governor, "You know, one
of your supporters down in Texas says he'll lend us a hundred thousand
dollars if you'll rebroadcast that speech where you give Ford and
Kissinger hell on defense." The talk went back and forth. Marty
Anderson, the wonderful longtime Reagan aide who told me this story,
said he sat there thinking, 'This is crazy, another hundred grand in
debt....'
The talk went back and forth and then Reagan spoke. He said "Okay, we'll
do it. Get the hundred thousand, we'll run the national defense speech."
He said, "I am taking this all the way to the convention at Kansas City,
and I don't care if I lose every damn primary along the way." And poor
Marty thought to himself, 'Oh Lord, there are twenty-one....'
The next night at a speech, Marty was standing in the back and Frank
Reynolds of ABC News came up all excited with a piece of paper in his
hand that said 55-45.
Marty thought, 'Oh, we're losing by ten.'
And Reynolds said, "You're winning by ten!" Reagan was told, but he
wouldn't react or celebrate until he was back on the plane and the pilot
got the latest results. Then, with half the vote in and a solid lead, he
finally acknowledged victory in North Carolina with a plastic glass of
champagne and a bowl of ice cream.
Ronald Reagan, twenty-four hours before, had been
no-money-no-support-gonna-lose-dead--but he made the decision he would
not quit, and at the end he came within a whisker of taking the
nomination from Ford.....
We have all noticed in life that big people with big virtues not
infrequently have big flaws, too. Reagan's great flaw it seemed to me,
and seems to me, was not one of character but personality. That was his
famous detachment, which was painful for his children and disorienting
for his staff.
No one around him quite understood it, the deep and emotional engagement
in public events and public affairs, and the slight and seemingly
formal interest in the lives of those around him. James Baker III called
him the kindest and most impersonal man he'd ever known, and there was
some truth to that....
He had a temper. He didn't get mad lightly, but when he did it was real
and hit like lightning....
Reagan is always described as genial and easygoing, but Marty Anderson
used to call him "warmly ruthless." He would do in the nicest possible
way what had to be done. He was as nice as he could be about it, but he
knew where he was going, and if you were in the way you were gone.
And you might argue his ruthlessness made everything possible.
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