Hungary Remembers Reagan
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While the left likes to forget or dispute that Ronald Reagan brought down the Iron Curtain, Eastern Europe remembers.
For Péter Zwack, the prominent Hungarian businessman and descendant of a famous liquor-producer family, there is no doubt that Ronald Reagan and his foreign policy changed his whole life. “If Reagan had not been in the White House, the Iron Curtain would never have fallen—and I never would have come back to Hungary and never would have served as the first ambassador of the democratic Hungary to Washington,” said Zwack, 79, during the September 22 unveiling ceremony of Ronald Reagan's bust in Budapest City Park. Zwack's family fled to America in 1948 after the Communist Party came to power in Hungary.The Hungarian capital is the first city in the former Sovet bloc countries to honor the 40th U.S. President with a statue. The bust made from bronze by the Hungarian sculptor Gábor Veres was equally funded by Zwack and the Budapest City Council. Budapest Mayor and member of the former anti-communist opposition Gábor Demszky recalled that in 1983 he was saved from imprisonment after Reagan issued a statement pressing for a fair trial.
Congrats to Stephen O'Connor of Human Events, who, while living in Hungary, made this a project of his. It must be rewarding to see a dream like this come to fruition.
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He literally changed the world and unlike most he did so for the better.
It is fitting that he be honored in all countries that were freed from communist rule behind the Iron Curtain. I salute Hungary for their recognition of President Reagan.
-- Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. -- Ronald Reagan
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as an "amiable dunce". A few years after giving the Washington elite comfort and a fun phrase to play with, as well as assurance of their own superiority, Clark Clifford stood in a courtroom and blubbered all over himself, the BCCI scandal having been laid at his feet.
A man then in his late eighties, he couldn't resist insider corruption and ended his public life crying over his shame.
Clifford was the quintessential "wise man" of Washington, a phrase now lost, to make way for new instant cliches.
That says all you need to know about the understanding of wisdom in our capitol and the difference in perception between Reagan and Clifford.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Reagan, Thatcher, Walesa, John Paul2, Solzhenitsyn, They were like giants on the earth compared to todays leaders.
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