“We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who for 8 years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.”

- President Ronald Reagan in His Farewell Address to the Nation, January 20th, 1989.

In contrast to Viacom’s inaccurate production of “The Reagans,” the Defend Reagan Committee would like to highlight some of President Reagan’s accomplishments and give light to his true convictions and character.

THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN:

• Led the United States and the people of the Free World to a successful victory over the dark and murderous threat from communism. The Cold War lasted some forty years until Ronald Reagan came forward with the right mix of courage, determination, resolution and basic human decency to bring it to an end.
  
  
• All told, more than 400 million people were freed from the suffocating and totalitarian rule of Communism. Communist nations were responsible for the deaths of over 97 million people.
  
  
• Initiated and oversaw the largest arms reduction in the history of the modern world!
  
  
• Brought an end to the recessionary malaise that had gripped the nation throughout much of the 1970’s. Reagan led what was then the longest peacetime recovery in our nation’s history – more than 20 MILLION jobs created. More than 3 MILLION new companies were born.
  
  
• Reduced taxes on tens of millions of Americans with most of these tax savings still benefiting Americans to this day.
  
  
• Reversed the growth and intrusiveness of government that had been on an uncontrollable binge for the past five decades.
  
  
• Lifted people’s confidence in their government and rejuvenated the American spirit.

In 1994, in an emotional and candid letter to the American people, Reagan announced that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. With the optimism, humility and warmth that defined his character, Reagan chose not to focus on his own hardship, but instead on his great love and hope for his country:

“In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.”