AN e-mail:

On the way into work this morning, a 30-something radio D.J. opined that
President Reagan was the reason that many of us grew up as conservatives. I
know that’s true of me. I didn’t understand all of the policies and
arguments, but I knew that if a conservative is what Ronald Reagan was, then
I wanted to be that, too.
One day when I, too, “slip the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of
God,” I plan to give a warm hug to President Ronald Wilson Reagan. I will
tell him, “Christ changed my heart, but you changed my mind.”
-W. A. Davis, Memphis, Tenn.