As every red-blooded conservative knows, today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Wilson Reagan. Links here to the latest news on the Reagan Centenial from the Reagan Library, and commemorative articles published this week by Peggy Noonon at the Wall Street Journal, Steven F. Hayward at National Review Online, L. Brent Bozell III at Human Events, and Paul Krengor and Mark Tooley at the American Spectator.
Also, the speech that launched Mr. Reagan’s political career, “A Time for Choosing,” televised on the eve of the 1964 presidential election on behalf of Barry M. Goldwater. Senator Goldwater lost in a landslide, but Mr. Reagan was elected Governor of California two years later, and to the presidency fourteen years after that.