ronald_reagan      Happy Birthday, Ronald Wilson Reagan. It would be your 99th. We sure could use you now. It would be wonderful to have a President whose every word and action had not been poll tested.

     Here’s a delightful insight into our 40th President. Recently, and I think it was during the State of the Union address, Obama claimed that he reads letters from the American people before retiring for bed. Reagan, too, used to read letters the White House had received from the people. Reagan liked to read these letters when he was at Camp David.  After reading these letters, Reagan would hand sealed handwritten responses to certain letters to his staffers. Drove his staffers nuts, but Reagan always considered his responses to be private and personal communication.

     Happy Birthday, Gipper. It’s your humility, humor and honor that I miss so much.