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On February 6, 2001, my nine-year-old daughter happened to wander into the room during a tv segment marking Ronald Reagan's ninetieth birthday. She watched for a moment. Then she considered me and asked, "Dad, would be that the President you worked for?"
What answer may i give her? How may i make her see? I wanted my daughter to identify that the earth she inhabited was freer and even more prosperous because of this old, old man on television. But I also wanted her to understand my own debt to him, to comprehend all those things he taught me-how to work and how to relax, how to think and how to use words, how to be a good husband, how to overcome life itself...
I needed to tell my children how Ronald Reagan changed my entire life.
In 1982, as a man, Peter Robinson was hired as a speechwriter in the Reagan White House. Through the six years that followed, he was one of your core band of writers who became informal experts on Reagan, absorbing not simply his political positions but his personality, manner, and way of carrying himself Along with the example Reagan set-as a confident, passionate, principled, generous-spirited older man-molded Robinson's outlook equally as he was getting into his own. "Hard work. A good marriage. A certain lightness of touch," he writes. "The longer I studied Ronald Reagan, the more lessons I learned."
At the core of How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life are ten of the life span lessons Robinson learned from the fortieth President-principles that contain guided his own life ever since. But it addittionally offers a warm and unforgettable portrait of your great yet ordinary man who touched the individuals around him as surely as he did his millions of admirers around the world.
Drawing on journal entries from his days at the White House, as well as interviews with those who knew the President best, Robinson etches his portrait with fresh observations, telling detail, and that "certain lightness of touch" that recalls the master himself The effect is nothing significantly less than a love story-an account of the profound respect and affection that certain son came to feel for the President who changed his life forever.
