After Bill Clinton’s speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, the delegates cast their votes on behalf of each state. The woman who took the microphone to cast Arizona’s vote said that her state had produced some fabulous politicians from both parties.
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There's nothing more valuable for a Republican presidential candidate than a link to the legacy of Ronald Reagan. Do GOP primary voters see in a candidate some of the qualities they admire in the 40th president? Do they sense a similar style of leadership? A comparable resolve?
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"Within the Reagan household, and perhaps in Ronald Reagan's heart," his definitive biographer Lou Cannon writes, "there was an early sense that he was a child of destiny." Certainly there was not much in his family background to suggest that. The 40th president was born one hundred years ago on February 6 in the second floor of a gritty-looking building in Tampico, Illinois.
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Eighteen leaders representing the three major branches of Washington conservative political and public policy activism met earlier today near Mount Vernon to sign and issue a new statement of common principles intended to provide a rallying point for the wider movement, much as did the Sharon Statement of 1960 and National Review founder William F. Buckley, Jr.'s Credenda of 1955.
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