Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan 22 May 1984 to Norman Lear

I do believe the First Amendment is being somewhat distorted or misinterpreted by some who would, by government decree, make freedom of religion into freedom from religion. The First Amendment plainly is to ensure that in this nation there shall be no official state church. The amendment says the government shall not establish religion but it also just as plainly says the government shall not interfere in the practice of religion.*

Reagan A LIFE IN LETTERS
New York etc. : Free Press 2003, p. 643.

    * The First Amendment only applies to the acts of the U.S. Congress and not to any acts by any other persons or bodies ; and it clearly states that there should be no acts at all by the Congress on these matters.

It had escaped Mr. Reagan, apparently, that the inscription"In God We Trust" on the wall in the Capitol Building and such a one on the coins were disrelated issues. I do not know how the inscription on the wall came about or at what date ; but it seems likely that it was not introduced there by any acts of the Congress. (If I be somehow mistaken on this point the following theses should still stand.)

KThe inscription on the coins was introduced by an act of the Congress, sometime in the 1950's, and was a clear breach of the law as stated in the Constitution. (Observing the obvious). In other words, the Congress had then committed a plain crime : in so far as the language of the Constitution goes, the Congress had collectively broken the Law by the mere fact of having legislated any legislation on the matter into being.

It can observed that the chief causes of atheism by some (which Mr. Reagan had disliked) may be the excesses of theism by some others.   (WPT — 2 Dec 04)

Selected bibliographic

Title The Truth about communism [videorecording] Publisher Chicago, IL : International Historic Films, 1985. Description 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., b&w; 1/2 in. Series Historic film classics ; 284 Note Ronald Reagan hosts and narrates this early 1960's documentary about the Communist threat to the free world. Alexander Kerensky, the first premier of the provisional Russian Government in 1917, formally introduces the film, which attempts to trace the development of the Communist movement from birth, to the Lenin years, through the Stalin years (featuring a response by Leon Trotsky attacking the Stalin purges), and to the ascendancy of Nikita Krushchev.

Author Reagan, Ronald. Uniform Title [ Where's the rest of me?] Title My early life, or, Where's the rest of me? / by Ronald Reagan with Richard G. Hubler. Publisher London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981, c1965 (1984 [printing]) Description 316 p., [8] p. of plates : ports. ; 22 cm. Note Originally published: New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965. Includes index. ISBN 0283991836 (pbk) :

Author Reagan, Ronald. Title Where's the rest of me? : the autobiography of Ronald Reagan / with Richard G. Hubler. Publisher New York : Karz Publishers, 1981, c1965. Description 316 p., [6] p. of leaves : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0918294169

Author Reagan, Ronald. Title Where's the rest of me? [microform] By Ronald Reagan with Richard G. Hubler Publisher New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce [1965] Description 316 p. ill. 21 cm Note Includes index

Author Reagan, Ronald. Title The creative society; some comments on problems facing America. Publisher New York, Devin-Adair Co., 1968. Description 143 p. 21 cm.

Author Reagan, Ronald. Title Science for mankind [an address at] California Institute of Technology Banquet, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, November 8, 1967. Publisher Pasadena, Calif., The Institute, [1968?] Description 8 p. 23 cm. Note Caption title.

Author Reagan, Ronald. Title "To every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him / Ronald Reagan." Publisher [Sacramento : s.n., 1968] Description 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., ; 22 cm. Note Cover title.

Author Reagan, Ronald. Title Where's the rest of me? by Ronald Reagan with Richard G. Hubler. Publisher New York : Best Books, [c1965] Description 286 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Author Reagan, Ronald. Title Where's the rest of me? By Ronald Reagan with Richard G. Hubler. Edition [1st ed.] Publisher New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1965] Description 316 p. illus. 21 cm.

Author Reagan, Ronald. Title Rendezvous with destiny [sound recording] / by Ronald Reagan. Music Pub. No. KLP-960 Key Records Publisher Los Angeles : Key Records, [196-] Description 1 sound disc (27 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in. Note Speech. Biographical note on container. Language English Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. Format Sound recording