God and Ronald Reagan
God moves in the affairs of men
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A man from Dixon, Illinois changed the world!
He was the world’s modern David. Instead of slewing the giant Goliath, he tamed the Russian Bear. For fifty years communist Russia had been the country’s archenemy. It had intimidated the world with its military might; its atomic capability and space vehicles. It had put democracy and capitalism in retreat. The Soviets seemed to be the favorite model for the world. Krushev boasted that Russia would bury the west. Some form of socialism, communism, or Marxism reigned in the Third World Countries. In the 1970’s the Soviet nuclear arsenal passed that of the U.S. Between 1974 and 1980 nine countries fell into the Soviet orbit. And in 1979 Russia invaded Afghanistan.
The man from Dixon changed all this:
AND WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT!
On June 12, 1987 he went to the Brandenburg Gate at the Berlin Wall; a Wall that had split Germany in half; a Wall that had imprisoned over seventeen million people; a Wall that caused the bloody death of one hundred and fifty three attempted escapees. And on that summer day, standing before that stark, gray wall, he spoke six words which shook the world: “MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!”
And the Wall came tumbling down like the Walls of Jericho.
AND IT CAME DOWN WITHOUT THE SOUND OF A RIFLE SHOT!
The man from Dixon, of course, was Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Henry Kissinger termed it: “The greatest diplomatic feat of the modern era.”
When Reagan became president the country needed a heart transplant. The old, pioneering spirit that was the true spirit of America seemed atrophied. The country was standing still and everything seemed to be falling apart. Inflation was in double digits: eighteen to twenty two percent. There was an energy crisis. Gas had been thirty-five cents in 1970, now it was a dollar and a half. Senator Kennedy advocated gas rationing. Unemployment and poverty rates were high.
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At the age of four he memorized all the Books of the Bible.
At the age of five he taught himself to read.
At the age of nine, in the fourth grade he recited from memory "The Sermon On The Mount. " Holding his mother's Bible in his hand his voice rang out clear and confident throughout the Assembly Hall.
when he was twelve he told his mother that he wanted to be baptized." I want to declare my faith."
At fifteen he led his church congregation in an Easter morning sunrise prayer. Then at 9:45 taught a Sunday school class and then took Holy Communion during the regular service.
In his "teens he was a 1 ifeguard at Lowell Park,along the wild and rough Rock River. And saved seventy seven people from drowning. when he was recovering from the attempted assasination on his life, he received a beautiful letter from one he had saved. It read: "I met you in the '20'5 in Lowell Park. Do you remember the good times we had in the '20'5. You were seventeen years old then and everyone called you "Duch" .Please get well soon. We need you to save the country--remember all the lives you saved at Lowell park."
Deeply religious, he prayed often. Before a high school football game he prayed. In college he did the same. Later in life,as governor of California and President of the United States he sought guidance from the God he loved.
And his prophecies rivalled those of the ancient Biblical ones, prophesying the end of communisim in Russia years before it happened.
President Ronald Wilson Reagan changed the country; changed the world.
About the Author
Yon Bulow is a world traveler, writer and broadcaster.
Has sampan'd in China, raced up the klongs in those pencil-thin, high powered canoes in Borneo, swam with stingrays off Jamaica; trudged up the Delarosa in Jerusalem, and climbed down into the pharaoh's tombs in Egypt.
He has written for newspapers (Star and Plain Talk) and radio and television. His first book was an autobiography “From Here to Eternity Without a Road Map”; then a political book, “The President's Wife”, followed by “My Father, the President”; all are a part of political triology. Other books by the author are: “They Called Him Meshuga, Crazy Man”, the story of Noah and the great flood. And his last book is a love story, a true story entitled: “The Travels of Jerry Smith and Raggedy Ann”, and finally a biography of his favorite President: Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Von Bulow enjoys golf, tennis and swimming. Has four children and fourteen grandchildren. He writes and lives in Southern California.