Notizia Reuter del 18.09.2006 ore 18,19
Gli ammiratori polacchi di Ronald Reagan contano erigere una statua dell'ex presidente americano a Varsavia dove molti gli danno atto del suo ruolo importantissimo nella caduta del comunismo nell'Europa dell'Est.
La statua sarà di pietra e bronzo, alta 3,5 metri, sarà eretta davanti all'ambasciata USA ha dichiarato ieri il direttore dell'organizzazione che sta raccogliendo i fondi necessari per la costruzione della statua.
"Reagan, è l'uomo che ha battuto il comunismo e ha fatto arrivare la libertà in Polonia" ha dicharato il direttore Janusz Dorosiewicz.
Il gruppo conta di inaugurare la statua il 4 luglio prossimo, giorno della festa nazionale degli Stati Uniti.
Buona iniziativa per onorare una grande personalità della storia recente del mondo occidentale.
unknow (POL)
19-09-06, 02:57
Gli otto anni di presidenza Reagan sono stati il più grande successo degli imbalsamatori dai tempi di Tutankamen. (Larry King)
Io Reagan me lo ricordo poco e a dir la verità non mi è sembrato mai un vero statista quanto un uomo politico fortunato capitato al momento giusto per rivendicare la caduta del comunismo.
Ha lasciato qualcosa di scritto?per tramandare ai posteri la sua visione del mondo...
Eric Draven
05-03-07, 01:18
Beh,se in un paese che ha vissuto sulla propria pelle il comunismo per oltre 40 anni,si pensa di erigere un monumento a Reagan,qualcosa dovrà pur significare,no? anche se mi attendo le solite arrampicate sugli specchi delle pulci....
Io Robert, meglio non dire così.. so già che adesso arriverà Ronnie a postare il thread biografico su Reagan che ha sempre pronto per l'uso (come quello sul nucleare ehehehe)
Ronald Reagan
At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan viewed with satisfaction the achievements of his innovative program known as the Reagan Revolution, which aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon Government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of 1980 to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism."
On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics and sociology, played on the football team, and acted in school plays. Upon graduation, he became a radio sports announcer. A screen test in 1937 won him a contract in Hollywood. During the next two decades he appeared in 53 films.
From his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he had two children, Maureen and Michael. Maureen passed away in 2001. In 1952 he married Nancy Davis, who was also an actress, and they had two children, Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott.
As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became embroiled in disputes over the issue of Communism in the film industry; his political views shifted from liberal to conservative. He toured the country as a television host, becoming a spokesman for conservatism. In 1966 he was elected Governor of California by a margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970.
Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980 and chose as his running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations Ambassador George Bush. Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long confinement of Americans in Iran swept the Republican ticket into office. Reagan won 489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter.
On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days later he was shot by a would-be assassin, but quickly recovered and returned to duty. His grace and wit during the dangerous incident caused his popularity to soar.
Dealing skillfully with Congress, Reagan obtained legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb inflation, increase employment, and strengthen national defense. He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes and Government expenditures, refusing to deviate from it when the strengthening of defense forces led to a large deficit.
A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped Reagan and Bush win a second term with an unprecedented number of electoral votes. Their victory turned away Democratic challengers Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro.
In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax code, which eliminated many deductions and exempted millions of people with low incomes. At the end of his administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression.
In foreign policy, Reagan sought to achieve "peace through strength." During his two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent, but sought to improve relations with the Soviet Union. In dramatic meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Reagan declared war against international terrorism, sending American bombers against Libya after evidence came out that Libya was involved in an attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub.
By ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf, he maintained the free flow of oil during the Iran-Iraq war. In keeping with the Reagan Doctrine, he gave support to anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America, Asia, and Africa.
Overall, the Reagan years saw a restoration of prosperity, and the goal of peace through strength seemed to be within grasp.
E questa è la biografia della casa bianca per soddisfare Rudy... Poi sul tema Reagan c'è un bell'articolo in cui è anche citato un suo libro http://www.scriptamanent.net/scripta/public/dettaglioNewsCategoria.jsp?ID=1001557
cmq eccoti l'elenco
Autore dei libri:
Dove è il resto di me? Ronald Reagan Story (1965, memoria, con Richard G. Hubler)
Francamente, Ronald Reagan (1980)
Rendezvous con Destiny (1981)
Un Momento per scegliere: I discorsi di Ronald Reagan (1983, discorsi, pubblicati da Alfred Baltizar)
Ronald Reagan: In dio I Trust (1984)
Aborto e coscienza della nazione (1984, nonfiction)
Parlare la mia mente: Discorsi selezionati con Reflections personale (1989, discorsi)
Una vita americana: Il Autobiography (1990, memoria)
Da WIKI sul tema cold war...
End of the Cold War
Reagan and Gorbachev at their first (of four) summit meetings.They ended up becoming close friends, and peacefully ending the Cold War.
By the late years of the Cold War, Moscow had built up a military that consumed as much as twenty-five percent of the Soviet Union's gross national product at the expense of consumer goods and investment in civilian sectors. (LaFeber 2002, 332) But the size of the Soviet armed forces was not necessarily the result of a simple action-reaction arms race with the United States. (Odom) Instead, Soviet spending on the arms race and other Cold War commitments can be understood as both a cause and effect of the deep-seated structural problems in the Soviet system, which accumulated at least a decade of economic stagnation during the Brezhnev years. (see Economy of the Soviet Union) Soviet investment in the defense sector was not necessarily driven by military necessity, but in large part by the interests of massive party and state bureaucracies dependent on the sector for their own power and privileges. (LaFeber 2002, 335)
As a result, of the USSR's horrible economy, Gorbachev offered major concessions to the United States on the levels of conventional forces, nuclear weapons, and policy in Eastern Europe.[68]
Many US-Soviet experts and administration officials doubted that Gorbachev was serious about winding down the arms race (LaFeber, 2002), but Ronald Reagan recognized the real change in the direction of the Soviet leadership, and Reagan shifted to skillful diplomacy, using his sincerity and charm to personally push Gorbachev further with his reforms.[69]
Ronald Reagan speaks at the Berlin Wall, and challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear Down This Wall!"
Gorbachev agreed to meet Reagan in four summit conferences around the world. The first, in Geneva, Switzerland, the second in Reykjavik, Iceland, the third, held in Washington, D.C., along with the fourth summit, in Moscow, Russia.[70]
Reagan sincerely believed that if he could persuade the Soviets to simply look at the prosperous American economy, they too would embrace free markets and a free society. Gorbachev, facing severe economic problems at home, was swayed.[71]
Speaking at the Berlin Wall, on June 12, 1987, Reagan pushed Gorbachev even further: "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"[72]
The East-West tensions that had reached intense new heights earlier in the decade rapidly subsided through the mid-to-late 1980s. In 1988, the Soviets officially declared that they would no longer intervene in the affairs of allied states in Eastern Europe. In 1989, Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan.
Reagan and Gorbachev built a close relationship. Gorbachev was awarded the first Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, The Nobel Peace Prize, and Time Magazine’s Man of the Decade. Reagan and Gorbachev signed the INF (International Nuclear Forces) Treaty in 1988, which eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons.[73]
Reagan and Gorbachev sign the INF Treaty.
Reagan's Secretary of State, George Shultz, a former economics professor at Stanford, privately instructed Gorbachev on free market economics. At Gorbachev’s request, Reagan gave a speech on free markets at Moscow University.[74]
When Reagan visited Moscow, he was viewed as a celebrity by Russians. A journalist asked the president if he still considered the Soviet Union the evil empire. "No," he replied, "I was talking about another time, another era."[75]
In his autobiography "An American Life," Reagan expressed his optimism about the new direction they charted, his warm feelings for Gorbachev, and his concern for Gorbachev's safety because Gorbachev pushed reforms so hard. "I was concerned for his safety," Reagan wrote. "I've still worried about him. How hard and fast can he push reforms without risking his life?"[76] Events would unravel far beyond what Gorbachev originally intended.
Come vedi nemmeno serve una pagina di propaganda pronta da copiaincollare, basta cercare 1 minuto scarso nella rete.
Eric Draven
05-03-07, 18:51
e pensare che qui non si fa tempo a porre una targa per i martiri delle foibe o per i caduti di Nassirya che arriva qualche "eroe" dell'antagonismo vario a rompere o imbrattare....
e pensare che qui non si fa tempo a porre una targa per i martiri delle foibe o per i caduti di Nassirya che arriva qualche "eroe" dell'antagonismo vario a rompere o imbrattare....
Ma si da' di corsa una sala del parlamento a un teppista.
Eric Draven
06-03-07, 12:38
E a genova si nega qualsiasi iniziativa di ricordo per Quattrocchi......
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