Beginning with our founding fathers, freedom has been an idea that has forever infiltrated Americans' hearts and souls. Ronald Reagan was a president that dedicated his words and actions of his two term presidency to the protection of peoples' freedoms. During his time of leadership, he restored the American dream that had slowly begun to dissolve, with his appealing unending optimism. As former President Bill Clinton stated, "He personified the indomitable optimism of the American …showed first 75 words of 3789 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3789 total…to address these issues by taking a stand without creating bitterness or enmity with other people. President George Bush, in response to Reagan's death in 2004 said, "He leaves behind a nation he restored and a world he helped save. During the years of President Reagan, America laid to rest an era of division and self-doubt, and because of his leadership, the world laid to rest and era of fear and tyranny" (Ronald Reagan Dies at 93).