Reagan's Moral Courage.

• Author: Sempa, Francis P.
• Position: Brief article

Reagan's Moral Courage

By Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War

Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa, Contributing Editor

Text: http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis.asp

British historian Andrew Roberts, in a speech at Hillsdale College at a ceremony dedicating a statue of President Ronald Reagan, praised the "moral courage" and leadership abilities of our 40th president. Roberts, the well-respected author of numerous works of history, credited Reagan for policies that produced the longest period of sustained economic growth in the 20th century and brought down the Soviet empire.

The key to Reagan's success, Roberts said, was his willingness to resist the conventional wisdom of his time and ignore the slings and arrows of numerous critics who wrote him off as stupid, ignorant, and dangerous. In fact, Reagan was a widely read and thoughtful man with a steely will and determination to restore Americans' faith in their country after the setbacks of the 1970s.

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