REMEMBERING PRESIDENT REAGAN. Mitch Berg describes the President's effect.

I’ve been writing about Reagan - who, along with PJ O’Rourke, Solzhenitzyn, Dostoevskii and Paul Johnson is the reason I’m a conservative today - as long as this blog has been in existence. His eight years were not perfect, and I’ll resist the urge to beatify my presidents, even if they’ve been out of office for twenty years (to say nothing of in their first month of service). His last term wasn’t as stellar as his first, and his last two years were very difficult.

Read and understand.