The Ranch by Peggy Noonan ––––––––––––––––––————–––––––––––– An Excerpt From When Character Was King ––––––––———––––––––––—––––––––––––
Today, Young America’s Foundation preserves and protects the “Western White House” to ensure future generations understand and are inspired by
It’s like what a settler would have seen from these hills long ago, and you understand for the first time why the Spanish named everything they saw here for saints. That’s Saint Barbara below and Saint Monica beyond, near the place of the Angels. Reagan later said that when he would ride in this area
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he would, inevitably, think of scripture. “It casts a spell. There’s such a sense of seclusion, and I suppose—I think of the scriptural line, ‘I look to the hills from whence cometh my strength.’” Judge William Clark told me Reagan called it “an open cathedral.” The ranch also made him think, irresistibly, of his oft-
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