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"This generous spirit is the backbone of our country -- Americans helping themselves and each other, reaching out and finding solutions... that governments and huge institutions can't find."
-- Ronald Reagan
Small Town Strengths: Foundations of a Leader:
In Dixon and the other small towns of his youth, Ronald Reagan learned to admire self-reliance and energy. "Almost everybody knew one another," he recalled, "and because they knew one another, they tended to care about one another."
In the 1930s, Ronald Reagan's father was laid off and found his next job in a story 200 miles away. His mother worked part-time in a dress shop, and still found time for volunteer work. Ronald Reagan and his father believed President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was dedicated to helping people just like them and as a result because lifelong admirers. |