Reply #83: Governor Ronald Reagan's congratulatory letter to my late father...

[BlueCaliDem]

...for being an "exceptional driver in California".

The great big smile on my father's embattled face (my parents were going through some really dark times, and we five children got to share in my mom's adultery), when he showed me (I was, I believe, 10 years old at the time) the letter from California's governor.

I was a pro-Republican back then (okay, I was 10 and naive!), but it was only because Reagan was our governor, and...he sent my father that letter that put a rare smile on his face.

That's when I learned what a governor was, and that we had one.

I was a non-voting Republican until I lived in the Netherlands, and their liberal culture opened my eyes, and had me question my loyalty, and views to the "conservative cause", and then came Clinton...and I, having always fretted about the huge deficits of the Reagan era; and the claims "we could never pay it down", Clinton came along and did the impossible.

I promptly became a voting Democratic constituent...