{"id":2261256,"date":"2024-06-06T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-reagan-on-the-40th-anniversary-of-president-reagans-speech-at-normandy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:25:01","slug":"michael-reagan-on-the-40th-anniversary-of-president-reagans-speech-at-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-reagan-on-the-40th-anniversary-of-president-reagans-speech-at-normandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Reagan Reflects on President Reagan&#8217;s Speech at Normandy 40 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichael-reagan-on-the-40th-anniversary-of-president-reagans-speech-at-normandy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2261256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The transcript captures a Morning Wire D-Day Tribute \u200cinterview between John Bickley and Michael Reagan, discussing \u2063the significance of the 80th\u200c anniversary \u2063of D-Day. Michael emphasizes the importance of educating youth about the sacrifices \u2062of past generations\u200b and the remarkable leadership legacy\u2064 of his father, Ronald Reagan. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mysterious-jan-6-figure-fence-cutter-bulwark-says-hes-not-a-federal-agent-or-provocateur\/\" title=\"Jan. 6 'Fence Cutter Bulwark' denies being a federal agent or provocateur, remains enigmatic.\">interview sheds light<\/a> on preserving historical\u200b memory\u200c and promoting humility in leadership.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The following is an edited transcript of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/d-day-tribute-with-michael-reagan-6-6-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morning Wire D-Day Tribute<\/a> interview between Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley and Michael Reagan, son of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-intellectuals-who-started-out-liberal-but-ended-up-conservative\/\" title=\"4 Intellectuals Who Started Out Liberal But Ended Up Conservative\">40th president<\/a> of the United States.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>June 6, 2024, is the 80th anniversary of the day that ultimately turned the tide of the Second Great War: the Allied Forces\u2019 invasion of Normandy. Code-named \u201cOperation Overlord,\u201d the invasion involved 156,000 Allied troops, half of them Americans, who launched a bold assault on five German-occupied and heavily fortified beaches.\u00a0Morning wire sat down with Michael Reagan, son of America\u2019s beloved 40th President Ronald Reagan, who famously traveled to Normandy four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/census-bureau-announces-it-will-miss-deadline-could-undermine-president-trumps-efforts-to-exclude-illegal-aliens-from-congressional-apportionment\/\" title=\"Census Bureau Announces It Will Miss Deadline \u2013 Could Undermine President Trump\u2019s Efforts to Exclude Illegal Aliens from Congressional Apportionment\">decades ago<\/a> to honor the brave soldiers who stormed those beaches.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joining us now to discuss the 80th anniversary of D-Day is Michael Reagan. Michael, thank you for coming on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MICHAEL:<\/b> Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>JOHN:<\/strong> First, why is recognizing D-Day still so important 80 years later?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MICHAEL: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, because this anniversary would be the last big anniversary where anyone who came out of a plane on D-Day 80 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ca-governor-breaks-his-own-covid-rules-to-eat-fancy-french-food\/\" title=\"Ca. Governor Breaks His Own COVID Rules To Eat Fancy French Food\">years ago<\/a> is going to be present there in Normandy, France. There are a million people there right now. There are 46,000 people there right now guarding the million people and the president who\u2019s going to be arriving. It is a huge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-senate-candidate-theres-a-genocide-happening-in-america-end-it-by-overturning-roe\/\" title=\"Arizona Senate Candidate: There\u2019s A Genocide Happening In America, End It By Overturning \u2018Roe\u2019\">huge day<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this 80th anniversary of D-Day. I\u2019ve been there on two or three occasions. They were large, but this one is humongous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, many have commented that today\u2019s youth and military look a lot different than the generation that stormed the beaches. What aspects of the Greatest Generation are missing that you think need to be brought back into today\u2019s culture?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MICHAEL:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  I think today\u2019s youth would dive out of planes to save the world as these did back 80 years ago. My problem is the people who are in school who don\u2019t even know why D-Day exists. Not too many years ago I played golf with a young man, and I was invited to Normandy to raise the American flag at the American Cemetery. I was telling him I was headed to France to do that. And he asked me, \u201dWhy is there an American cemetery in France?\u201d He had no idea, no concept. I looked at him and I said, \u201dDid you think D-Day is when your report card came out?\u201d He had no concept why there was a cemetery in France. If you run a survey of high school kids today, probably even college kids, and ask them about D-Day \u2014 they have no idea about D-Day, why we have a cemetery there, why it existed and why we saved that part of the world and actually saved the whole world. That is the thing that bothers me. Not the ones who are in the military now, who have given their lives, their arms, pieces of their body and what have you. The ones who are really scary to me are the kids in school who have no concept why and what we\u2019ve done.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_747129\" style=\"width: 915px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-747129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anwar Hussein\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  And what could be done to remedy this? How can we best go about educating today\u2019s students on World War II and the Holocaust?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MICHAEL:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  You know how I learned it? I learned it from my dad. Sitting in the right front seat of a station wagon any given Saturday morning. Picking me up from my mom\u2019s house. Driving me out to the ranch in Malibu. You all remember the ranch dad had during the presidency. This is the ranch I grew up on in Malibu. And regaling me \u2014 Songs, military, Army. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard \u2014 and telling me about this country, telling me about how great it was and is, telling me stories. Too often we parents, conservatives also, leave it up to the schools to educate our kids. Well, how\u2019s that working out? It\u2019s not working out. So we\u2019ve got to take it back ourselves, homeschool the kids or at least educate them on this D-Day, this 80th anniversary, and what these people were willing to do and willing to give to save the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  You mentioned your father. Can you explain your father\u2019s significance around recognizing formally D-Day?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MICHAEL:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Well, it\u2019s interesting because President Biden is going to Normandy to speak on D-Day, but it was my father 40 years ago who was the first president to actually go to Normandy on D-Day and speak as he did. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Right, a truly historic moment in 1984. Here\u2019s a bit of that famous speech:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">men like Private Zanata and<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  all our Allied Forces stormed the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">beaches of Normandy 40 years ago they came not as conquerors but as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">liberators when these troops swept across the French Countryside and into the forests of Belgium and Luxembourg they came not to take but to return what had been wrongly seized. When our forces marched into Germany they came not to prey on a brave and defeated people but to nurture the seeds of democracy among those who yearn <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to be free again and we salute them.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>MICHAEL: <\/b>I would also suggest going to YouTube and pulling up dad\u2019s speech at Pointe du Hoc, about the boys at Pointe du Hoc, and watch those videos. The cliff these kids climbed at 17 \u2014 some lied about their age at 16-, 17-, 18-years-old \u2014 going up these cliffs with machine gun fire, firing down at them. Listen to that speech. He was the first president to speak on D-Day in Normandy, France, and now every president since my father has followed suit and been in Normandy on D-Day to speak.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_747131\" style=\"width: 877px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-747131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">6th June 1984: US President Ronald Reagan delivers a speech commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary of D-Day, at the site of the Allied invasion, Pointe Du Hoc. (Photo by Ronald Reagan Library\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  The education of young conservatives continues through the efforts of the Reagan Library and the Reagan Ranch. Is that the legacy of your father? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MICHAEL:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Absolutely right. The library does a great job. Big events, like celebrating the 20th anniversary of my dad\u2019s passing this week. Of course, the 40th anniversary of him going to Normandy. What they do there, the scholarship programs that they have there. I go there so often, I\u2019m probably there once a month, I take people on tours, I play docent for a day, if you will. I love doing it. They refer to me at the library as the prequel because I have stories to tell behind the stories that they tell, which is great. I work a lot with the Young America\u2019s Foundation, who bought the ranch back in 1998. I\u2019ll be speaking to 200 high school students at the Ranch Center in Santa Barbara on the 19th of this month. They\u2019ll be able to walk in the footsteps of my father, see the building. The ranch house is exactly the way it was the last time my dad was there. He didn\u2019t know he wasn\u2019t going back because of Alzheimer\u2019s, and Young America\u2019s Foundation has done a phenomenal job of taking care of it. They now have bought the boyhood home in Illinois, they\u2019re in charge of the home. He was born in Tampico, Illinois, and they bring kids from the Midwest \u2014 all over the world, actually \u2014 to come in and learn about my father. That\u2019s where the legacy is. It\u2019s through the Young America\u2019s Foundation, and the ranch, and the homes, and the, and the Reagan library, with what his accomplishments were prior to becoming president, but also as president. If you haven\u2019t been to any of those places, you need to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/d-day-tribute-with-michael-reagan-6-6-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LISTEN: Catch the full D-Day Tribute interview with Michael Reagan on Morning Wire<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  And why do you think it\u2019s important for younger generations to understand who Ronald Reagan was, and what do you think they need to know about him and his beliefs?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MICHAEL: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The humility. We\u2019ve lost humility in this country. Nobody\u2019s humble anymore. One of my dad\u2019s greatest lines was, don\u2019t worry who gets the credit. You can accomplish so many things if you don\u2019t worry who gets the credit. And today there\u2019s too many people taking credit and not giving credit. I mean, look at what he accomplished with Mikhail Gorbachev, because he was willing to give him credit. He knew he had to build up Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia in order to ultimately get what he needed, which is the Berlin Wall coming down. He had to work with many people to do that. You talked about this country with leadership and where we are, but there are no leaders in the world. There are no leaders like Margaret Thatcher, V\u00e1clav Havel, Helmut Kohl, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul. None of those people exist today. Dad found a way to work with all of them to accomplish ending the Cold War and bringing down the Berlin Wall. Through my Reagan Legacy Foundation, (ReaganLegacyFoundation.org) we have a scholarship program for the kids that serve on the USS Ronald Reagan. We provide them scholarships, not only for them but for their family members at home waiting for them, trying to get a better education. We have a brick project. You can go online and purchase a brick for 250 bucks with tax deductible, 501(c)(3), put a name on it. Or, if you don\u2019t donate the money to the foundation, we\u2019ll put the name of someone who dove out of a plane in the European Theater 80 years ago, and we\u2019ll honor them with a brick at Saint-M\u00e8re-\u00c9glise, Normandy, France, which is the first town freed by America on D-Day at 4:00 AM in the morning. So, go there and see what we\u2019re doing. If you really want to get involved, that\u2019s the way to get involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Final question, have you seen the new Reagan film starring Dennis Quaid?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MICHAEL:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  No. There\u2019s a big preview of it on August 20th here in Hollywood, and I think it opens on Labor Day weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Are you excited or nervous about watching it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MICHAEL:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  I\u2019m always nervous when I see somebody play my dad. I\u2019ve known Mark Joseph forever, So I trust him, but I always get nervous. My family will be there on the 20th of August to see the whole thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Thank you so much for talking with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MICHAEL: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey, thank you for having me. I appreciate it. God bless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  That was Michael Reagan and this has been a special D-Day Tribute edition of Morning Wire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from a Morning Wire D-Day Tribute interview with Michael Reagan, son of the 40th US president, John Bickley, editor-in-chief at Daily Wire. 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