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Governor Sarah Palin’s Address at the Reagan 100 Weekend Celebration By Governor Sarah Palin Young America’s Foundation thanks Governor Palin for allowing her inspiring speech to be printed in Libertas.
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hank cherished that you so land, those wide much, open spaces. Reagan Ranch There we were, Center and riding horses Young America’s along the trails Foundation, for that he had allowing me this cleared, feeling honor to share the breeze in with you in this our faces, and celebration of being able to Ronald Reagan’s feel that warm centennial. I southern air can’t tell you overhead. I how really knew instantly humbling this why Ronald is for my family Reagan loved Governor Sarah Palin delivers an effective and inspiring address at the Reagan Ranch th Center during Reagan 100—Young America’s Foundation’s celebration of the 100 and for me to get that ranch. anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth. to be here. After riding Today, out at the Ranch, it was simply overwhelming horses, we got to drive a bit further, higher up, and looked and inspiring to be there riding horses on trails that out over the Pacific Ocean. I knew instantly why it was he Ronald Reagan had cleared. felt so inspired by that place. He loved that place. He loved And I have to admit, we’re a little more comfortable it not just in visiting and enjoying its beauty. He loved it in riding snow machines than horses. In fact, if you get a caring for it—in working it, and building the fences with chance, ask Bristol how her experience went riding horses. his own hands, and chopping wood, and clearing back the But if it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger, Bristol. thick brush, and clearing the trails. It was overwhelming to know the work that Ronald The Ranch is unmistakably the home of a western Reagan had put into that ranch—how he loved and conservative who celebrated our pioneering spirit, and he Young America’s Foundation • Libertas
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