How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life Audiobook (Free)
- Peter Robinson
- 5 h 53 min
- HarperAudio
- 2004-01-20
Summary:
On February 6, 2001, my nine-year-old daughter happened to wander into the room throughout a television segment marking Ronald Reagan’s ninetieth birthday. She watched for an instant. Then she turned to me and asked, ‘Father, is that the President you worked well for?’
What answer could I give her? How may i make her see? I needed my daughter to identify that the globe she inhabited was freer and more prosperous due to that old, old man on television. But I also desired her to grasp my personal personal debt to about How Ronald Reagan Changed MY ENTIRE LIFE him, to comprehend everything he trained me-how to work and how exactly to relax, how to think and how exactly to make use of words, how to be a great husband, how to overcome life itself…
I needed to tell my children how Ronald Reagan changed my entire life.
In 1982, as a young man, Peter Robinson was hired being a speechwriter in the Reagan White Home. Through the six years that implemented, he was one of a core band of authors who became casual specialists on Reagan, absorbing not only his politics positions but his personality, manner, and way of carrying himself As well as the example Reagan set-as a confident, passionate, principled, generous-spirited old man-molded Robinson’s view just like he was coming into his personal. ‘Hard work. An excellent marriage. A particular lightness of contact,’ he writes. ‘The longer I studied Ronald Reagan, the more lessons I learned.’
At the core of How Ronald Reagan Changed MY ENTIRE LIFE are ten of the life lessons Robinson discovered from the fortieth President-principles which have guided his own life ever since. But it addittionally gives a warm and memorable portrait of an excellent yet ordinary guy who handled the individuals around him as certainly as he did his millions of admirers around the world.
Drawing on journal entries from his times in the White House, aswell as interviews with those that knew the President best, Robinson etches his portrait with fresh observations, telling detail, which ‘certain lightness of touch’ that recalls the grasp himself The effect is nothing significantly less than a like story-an account of the profound respect and affection that one young man came to feel for the President who transformed his existence forever.
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