Reagan was an idealist who truly believed - or wanted desperately to believe - that the country we grew up being taught about is the one we all really live in...and he upheld the notion (in spirit, at least) as well as any. Unfortunately, those words do not apply today, nor apparently did they then. Dawn, Ken, A., are sadly correct. You have to go back to Eisenhower's last address to see how far gone our "freedom" really is. He tried to warn us.