Reagan Recalled at Statue Installation

In speeches at a ceremony to unveil a statue of Ronald Reagan in the United States Capitol, Republican admirers of the 40th president repeatedly invoked Reagan’s insistence that America’s brightest days lay ahead and that the focus should always be on the future not the past.

But for a brief few moments, members of the diminished Republican minorities in Congress seemed to relish an opportunity to relive the glory days of the early 1980’s. And judging from Democrats’ sparse attendance at the ceremony, they had little interest in looking back.

“When America thought our best days lay behind us, Ronald Reagan showed they still lay ahead,” ... “When the world thought freedom was in retreat, Ronald Reagan proved that liberty was still the strongest force in history.”

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