Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our national beauty preserved the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced. In light of recent information that Republicans paid off those who took the hostages in Iran in 1979 (something I had heard for years but never had someone go on record about it), it makes it even sadder the direction our country took after Ronald Reagan was elected. He had many victories during this time and did a lot to change the country for the better. The end result here is a complex look at what life was like during the four years of his tenure. Every night he would try to record his thoughts and observations about what was going on. It is taken from the daily diary he kept during his Presidency. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President was written in the two years following his election loss to Ronald Reagan. For the next four years, I was still very aware, and many of the events he recounts in his memoir of his time in office are very familiar to me, although I don’t recall a lot of the specifics from all those years ago.
It was 1976, and listening to Jimmy Carter talk, I felt a connection. I was ten years old and our class followed the election news and discussed it in class. The first election I can remember following was when I was in the fifth grade. Let our recent mistakes bring a resurgent commitment to the basic principles of our nation, for we know that if we despise our own government we have no future. We must once again have faith in our country-and in one another.
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