The election of Ronald Reagan to President of the United States was a very high moment in my life. I admired his honesty and the fact that he absolutely refused to give in to pressure groups, whether domestic or foreign.

As Governor of California he hired prisoners to harvest crops that farm laborers were refusing to. This should have told America what type of President he would be but many refused to believe that he would honestly try to carry out his campaign promises. Boy, did they get a shock!

In my mind Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the 20th Century and I do not hold that belief simply because he was a republican. I feel the second greatest and the most unsung was Harry S. Truman.

Following is a letter I wrote to President Reagan in 1981. To view the letter full size, click on the letter and then click again on the image when it opens.

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This is the reply I received several weeks later:

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I sure wish we had a Reagan or Truman in the White House today!