An airport and an aircraft carrier have been named after him. The Reagan Legacy Project has dozens of similar projects in the hopper. Efforts to have post offices renamed, coins struck, and highways dedicated in his honor are underway. There's even talk of a memorial around the National Mall.
These are all fitting but somehow...insufficient. Only Rushmore suffices — and it is peculiarly appropriate to Ronald Reagan.
No single person has done more to spread democracy in the last 100 years than Ronald Reagan. No one has done more to build the infrastructure — political, economic and military — to speed the adoption of American ideals across the globe than the 40th president.
2007-01-26 06:09:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Regaen was by far the greatest President of the 20th Century.
I say this wholeheartedly....
Yes his image should be carved onto Mount Rushmore.
All you guys that hate Reagan are completely retarded...
he defeeted the Evil Empire of Communistic Russia...
He made Germany to unite.
He spread Democracy and boosted our military strength.
He was the greatest President this past century ever saw.
We should honor that man.
2007-01-26 06:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Agappae 5 · 6⤊ 7⤋
I happen to think Ronald Reagan was one of this country's better presidents. However, being from South Dakota, I don't want anything added to Mt Rushmore. I don't believe Gutzon Borglum intended to have a monument that would be added to repeatedly over the years. In my opinion, nothing nor no body should be added to Mt Rushmore. I don't think there is room from anymore faces on the mountain. The original plans for the monument was for the four faces that are there now. Would you continue to carve little people in around the Lincoln Memorial or the Washington Monument. I think not.
2016-05-24 02:26:30 · answer #2 · answered by Rebecca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Reagan took office, we were a demoralized nation, in the choking grip of Jimmy Carter's dismal malaise. The Soviet Union was gaining Communist terrority all over the globe.
Then Reagan appeared on the scene, like a dashing John Wayne figure silhoutted against the rising morning sun. He told us our best days were ahead of us. He told us that the Soviet Union would never overtake the U.S.
As Margaret Thatcher so eloquently put it, he defeated the Soviet Empire without firing a shot.
The economic boom that followed his Presidency is testament to the wisdom of him giving tax credits to corporations that invested money in Research & Development.
Mount Rushmore represents the first 150 years of American history. Without Reagan saving a failing nation at that precise moment in history, we might not have another 150 years to look forward to.
So yes, absolutely. Let's put Reagan's inspirational visage on Mount Rushmore!
2007-01-26 09:59:30 · answer #3 · answered by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No president sold more weapons to Iran, no president funneled more drug money to illegal central american wars, no president tried to get away with ketchup as a school lunch vegetable.
In a word, no. As for the aircraft carrier and the airport, your favorite president, Jimmy Carter, also has a Navy vessel named for him (a submarine, but then again he was a submarine officer). Let's name a theater or two for Reagan and call it good.
2007-01-26 06:26:17 · answer #4 · answered by Schmorgen 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I couldn't agree more, my friend. President Ronald Wilson Reagan was the greatest president of the Twentieth Century. The Cold War was won the instant he stared down General Secretary Gorbachev that cold December day in Reykjavik. May God bless and keep him.
2007-01-26 06:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by Rick N 3 · 4⤊ 5⤋
No, the ones that already there are old, he just passed away. I can't understand you Republicans always trying to get your President's some big honor that isn't legal , yet. Regan was okay but the only reason all Conservatives holler Reagan is because he was the only decent Republican President you ever had, get real.
2007-01-26 06:25:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
No but I do think we should have a new national monument like it and his image would be the first on the list.
2007-01-26 06:19:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I couldn't agree more. RR has done more for the fall of communist totalitarianism in eastern Europe than Gorbachev, any European leader or the Pope
2007-01-26 06:20:57 · answer #8 · answered by arnok 2 · 6⤊ 2⤋
If only Iran-Contra had never happened, it'd probably be there already.
His show of strength effectively ended the Cold War. A lot of people just don't get it or choose to remember.
2007-01-26 06:36:23 · answer #9 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Reagan was a puppet of the "New World Order". End of story.
2007-01-26 06:34:52 · answer #10 · answered by CJ 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋