Stop Ted Kennedy from speaking at the Reagan Library!
My good friend Rick Reiss is leading the charge in California. Below is an excerpt from the letter he has sent to the Reagan Library officials. You can voice your displeasure at Kennedy’s invitation to speak by sending a letter to info@reaganfoundation.org and Reagan.library@nara.gov. Read more about Kennedy’s visit: http://www.reaganfoundation.org/visitorguide/calendar.asp
As an occasional visitor, a donor to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and as a great admirer of President Ronald Reagan, I must voice my extreme displeasure over the planned Reagan Forum on Saturday, April 28, 2007. In this planned forum, Senator Edward Kennedy (D - MA) is scheduled to lecture on the grounds of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
To put it simply, Senator Kennedy is an unsuitable and inappropriate figure to be given the privilege of lecturing at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. I do believe that allowing Senator Kennedy to lecture does a great disservice to the memory and the legacy of President Reagan.
First, Senator Kennedy has proven himself to be an amoral man who uses personal family and political connections to evade the law. On June 18, 1969, Senator Kennedy attended a party at Chappaquiddick in Martha’s Vineyard. After the party, Kennedy drove home accompanied by Mary Jo Kopecne. During the drive Kennedy drove off of the Dike Bridge and into the water. The car plunged into tide-swept Poucha Pond and came to rest upside down underwater. Kennedy was able to swim free of the vehicle, but Kopechne was not.
While there has been much speculation as to whether Kennedy was driving drunk, there is little doubt that Kennedy failed to save Kopechne, failed to summon help immediately, and in fact contacted not the police but rather his lawyer first. This is the behavior of a reprobate.
Senator Kennedy is also unsuited for the honor to lecture at the Reagan Presidential Library because he is so diametrically opposed to the conservative values, principles, philosophy and American traditions that President Reagan espoused and lived by.
Senator Kennedy has always chosen to side with a statist government philosophy that only stifles free markets and cripples economic freedom and individual initiative. Kennedy has continued (even to this day) to advocate for bigger government programs, more government spending, higher confiscatory tax rates, socialized medicine and a weakening of America’s national security infrastructure.
Granting Senator Kennedy the high esteem of lecturing in a library and museum devoted to concepts like Americanism, free enterprise, individual rights, and rule of law makes a mockery of everything that President Reagan valued. This lecture would be seen as an abomination. Please reconsider this April 28 lecture and cancel it immediately.
July 10th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
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