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Now, you would think besides the REAGAN LIBRARY, which WE FUND, "they" could keep this little house in a tiny little IL town--AFLOAT. Apparently no one is interested anymore so they are turning to FEDERAL FUNDS. Come on, how much? Maybe $250,000 a year for upkeep and staff? Oh well, maybe the foundation that owns it can get a couple hundred K . DIXON's average house sale according to ZILLOW is $98K.
How about REAGAN, the 'adopted one'? He's made a living from his father's name.
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS
How Reagan’s Childhood Home Gave Up on Reaganism
For decades, the foundation maintaining the home rejected government funding. Now, it has no other choice.
Photograph by M. Scott Mahaskey
By EDWARD MCCLELLAND
11/23/2019 07:05 AM EST
DIXON, Illinois—In the gift shop of the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home is a T-shirt bearing one of the 40th president’s best-known sayings: “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.” Since opening to the public in 1984, the home, run by a nonprofit foundation, has lived by that principle, rejecting public money and staying proudly independent. Its website declares, “The Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home does not receive State or Federal Funding.”
Nearly 130 years old, the three-bedroom, one-bathroom white house on South Hennepin Avenue in Dixon is a testament to Reagan’s modest, all-American childhood. Many of its counterparts around the country, including Bill Clinton’s boyhood home in Hope, Arkansas; John F. Kennedy’s birthplace in Brookline, Massachusetts; and the estate in New York where Franklin D. Roosevelt was born, are run by the National Park Service.
Not Reagan’s house. In 2002, Dixon’s congressman, Dennis Hastert, then the Republican speaker of the House, passed a bill authorizing the National Park Service to buy the property and manage the house, as it does so many other presidential properties. The members of the Reagan home’s board of directors were aging and approached Hastert because they thought the Park Service might be a good candidate to carry on their work. They changed their minds, however, and spurned the help, in part because Congress wouldn’t match the millions of dollars private donors had invested in the property, and in part because that’s not how Reagan would have wanted it.
“He didn’t think government needed to be involved in our daily lives,” Connie Lange, the executive director at the time, said of the 40th president. “And people really took that to heart here.”
Ronald Reagan grew up in Dixon, Illinois, a town of 16,000 people a two-hour’s drive from Chicago. | M. Scott Mahaskey for Politico Magazine
The Reagan boyhood home’s independence made it a rallying point for conservatives. Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform and the Reagan Legacy Project, told the Washington Times, “I’m not in favor of the government owning property, never mind Reagan’s house.” In a 2013 report about the “congressional shortsightedness and bureaucratic mismanagement” around U.S. national parks, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma used the Reagan house as evidence that historic sites could be just fine in private hands, writing that the home had recently reported an annual net income of $172,000 and “can manage its affairs just as well as many of the nonprofits administering the nation’s celebrated presidential sites.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/23/ronald-reagan-childhood-home-072935
How about REAGAN, the 'adopted one'? He's made a living from his father's name.
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS
How Reagan’s Childhood Home Gave Up on Reaganism
For decades, the foundation maintaining the home rejected government funding. Now, it has no other choice.
Photograph by M. Scott Mahaskey
By EDWARD MCCLELLAND
11/23/2019 07:05 AM EST
DIXON, Illinois—In the gift shop of the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home is a T-shirt bearing one of the 40th president’s best-known sayings: “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.” Since opening to the public in 1984, the home, run by a nonprofit foundation, has lived by that principle, rejecting public money and staying proudly independent. Its website declares, “The Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home does not receive State or Federal Funding.”
Nearly 130 years old, the three-bedroom, one-bathroom white house on South Hennepin Avenue in Dixon is a testament to Reagan’s modest, all-American childhood. Many of its counterparts around the country, including Bill Clinton’s boyhood home in Hope, Arkansas; John F. Kennedy’s birthplace in Brookline, Massachusetts; and the estate in New York where Franklin D. Roosevelt was born, are run by the National Park Service.
“He didn’t think government needed to be involved in our daily lives,” Connie Lange, the executive director at the time, said of the 40th president. “And people really took that to heart here.”
Ronald Reagan grew up in Dixon, Illinois, a town of 16,000 people a two-hour’s drive from Chicago. | M. Scott Mahaskey for Politico Magazine
The Reagan boyhood home’s independence made it a rallying point for conservatives. Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform and the Reagan Legacy Project, told the Washington Times, “I’m not in favor of the government owning property, never mind Reagan’s house.” In a 2013 report about the “congressional shortsightedness and bureaucratic mismanagement” around U.S. national parks, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma used the Reagan house as evidence that historic sites could be just fine in private hands, writing that the home had recently reported an annual net income of $172,000 and “can manage its affairs just as well as many of the nonprofits administering the nation’s celebrated presidential sites.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/23/ronald-reagan-childhood-home-072935
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