You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

Every year since 2002 California Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger have proclaimed February 6 "Ronald Reagan Day" in the state of California in honor of their most famous predecessor. C. Boulware known for his tough stance against unions and his innovative strategies to win over workers championed the core tenets of modern American conservatism: free markets anticommunism lower taxes and limited government.

A conservative icon he ranks highly in public opinion polls of U. His supply-side economic policies dubbed "Reaganomics" advocated reducing tax rates to spur economic growth controlling the money supply to reduce inflation deregulation of the economy and reducing government spending. Presidents and is credited for generating an ideological renaissance on the American political right.