TJ Cox: “I thank the whip, and I thank him especially for his inspiring remarks about an inspired man, a hero of mine and his and…”

“I thank the whip, and I thank him especially for his inspiring remarks about an inspired man, a hero of mine and his and so many Americans. What happened during the 20th century, which really spans Ronald Reagan's lifetime, was nothing less than the rise of totalitarianism as a model of the state and its defeat in the great war, World War II, that our folks, some of us here in Congress, fought in, and its defeat subsequently in the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, when he led the victory of the West in the Cold War, and he led the intellectual victory that results now in Democrats and Republicans agreeing on the central point that free enterprise, not a state-run economy, is the model for America and the whole world and for the creation of jobs and opportunities for people everywhere. In that sense, Ronald Reagan, while he was a Republican by registration at the end of his life and a Democrat to campaign for FDR and Harry Truman earlier in his career, was really a person who transcended partisan politics.”