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Eureka! Reagan 101
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Eureka College to host ‘Reagan 101’ course next week
Ronald Reagan and Walt Bittner, mayor of the city of Bloomington, Illinois, visit together on Reagan’s trip to Bloomington, Illinois in 1976, during Regan’s unsuccessful run for the White House. (Pantagraph file photo)
EUREKA — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will be among noted politicians, journalists and authors who will be part of a four-day “Reagan 101” course at Eureka College next week.
Best-selling author Craig Shirley, who has written two books about former President Ronald Reagan, will focus on Reagan’s presidential campaigns as the college’s first Visiting Reagan Scholar.
The free course will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday. C-SPAN plans to record the first class as part of its Lectures in History series. An air date hasn’t been announced.
Shirley said historians on the left and right are “coming to judge him (Reagan) as one of the most consequential presidents in history.”
In 1980, Reagan “sent America off in a radically different direction” and introduced “a new conservatism,” Shirley said.
As a Visiting Reagan Scholar, Shirley also will meet individually with Eureka College students, Provost Philip Cavalier said.
The idea behind the Visiting Reagan Scholar program is to bring in people who not only can do research at Eureka College’s library but also provide students with insights into Reagan or the presidency and “give students access they wouldn’t normally have,” he said.
“The Reagan legacy is an important part of the college,” Cavalier said. Reagan graduated in 1932 and returned several times to his alma mater.
Originally, Reagan 101 participants were to be charged a fee. But the Ronald Reagan Society of Eureka College provided sponsorship so the course could be offered free.
“We thought it was best to just allow people access to the course,” said John Morris, the society’s director.
Morris said the society and the college are “pretty excited” that C-SPAN will telecast one of the classes.
“It allows us to extend our educational impact beyond the people who will be here for the course,” he said.
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Shirley said Reagan’s impact “will continue to grow and expand, in part, because we’ve had a paucity of good presidents.”
He described George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama as “mediocre” presidents.
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Mourning in America- describing O as a mediocre President is being gracious at this point…
bitterclinger
October 21st, 2012
Neat! Seems Hillsdale College has started a trend with making their courses available to all. Rush is fond of saying that Reagan set back the proglodyte agenda 20 years.
I wish Ronnie would’ve know about some of the insidious things going on with CPUSA because he would’ve surely done something about it.
The staggering details are in this video. Make it go viral!
http://bit.ly/QJ4HHq
shockuhzulu
October 21st, 2012
I’ve been there. It’s a nice town and they even have a golf course!
Unruly Refugee
October 21st, 2012
Much better than the national standard Blame Bush 101. Even my grandkids have told me their teachers thought Bush was “mean”. So I had a “talk” with the teachers about not indoctrinating my offspring.
Anne
October 22nd, 2012
I’ll never forgive Reagan for his impotency with respect to seeking retribution for the bombing by Muslim terrorists of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. Like Carter and Clinton, Reagan encouraged terrorists. The Bushs are the only ones with balls who took the fight to the enemy and won.