{"id":590113,"date":"2021-07-13T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=590113"},"modified":"2021-07-13T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:36:11","slug":"opinion-what-we-can-learn-from-ronald-reagans-bookshelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-what-we-can-learn-from-ronald-reagans-bookshelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: What We Can Learn From Ronald Reagan\u2019s Bookshelves"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fopinion-what-we-can-learn-from-ronald-reagans-bookshelves%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=590113&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-3208064.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\">When pursuing ambitious goals, it can be easy to attach ourselves to important people, but it\u2019s easy to forget that those people were influenced by others who came before them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">I recently had the opportunity to tour President Ronald Reagan\u2019s ranch \u2014 El Rancho Del Cielo \u2014 in California where he and First Lady Nancy Reagan spent much of their time. The humble residence sits on hundreds of acres, with hills surrounding it on both sides so that it feels tucked away from the outside world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">When Nancy Reagan sold the ranch to Young America\u2019s Foundation in 1998, she insisted that it be kept exactly the way that they had lived in it in order to preserve its history and purpose. The decorations are the same as they were when the Reagans lived there and it seems almost as if the couple is still around, keeping an eye on things.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">One gets this impression especially from the bookcases.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The same books that Ronald Reagan read and cherished still line the walls. The only thing that makes one realize the place is more of a museum now than a home are the plastic barriers on the shelves. Other than that, it seems as if one could simply grab a book, pull up a stool in front of the fireplace, and spend a day reading.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">It occurred to me that there are many names on the bindings of those books that I didn\u2019t remember \u2014 or even recognize.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Perhaps, though, that is one of the highest honors in life: to have one\u2019s writings, thoughts and concerns end up on the bookshelves of great men and women who put their country, their family, and their faith first, and somehow along the way, found solace in the words written by someone who might have never known or dreamed that their writing would make its way to that house on the ranch.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">It is certainly a special privilege to be counted among the books that inspire others to do great things, but I believe it would also be humbling to acknowledge that everyone needs inspiration, everyone needs encouragement, and we never know when our words might provide that.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">According to Young America\u2019s Foundation, \u201cReagan\u2019s only genuine forms of relaxation\u2014at least by most definitions\u2014were his&nbsp;<span class=\"s1\">horseback rides<\/span>&nbsp;during the day and his reading by the hearth in the evenings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The ranch was important to Reagan. He <a href=\"https:\/\/reaganranch.yaf.org\/rancho-del-cielo\/history\/\"><span class=\"s1\">said<\/span><\/a>, \u201cRiding on one of the tree-lined trails, or gazing up at the western skies, well, there\u2019s no better way I know of to sort out a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cThe 40<span class=\"s2\">th<\/span>&nbsp;president \u2018relaxed\u2019 at the Ranch by working at the Ranch. His unique method of relaxation included cutting wood, clearing brush, and a penchant for chopping up used telephone poles that found new life as a sturdy, winding fence,\u201d YAF noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cWe relax at the Ranch,\u201d said Reagan, \u201cwhich if not Heaven itself, probably has the same ZIP code.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Reagan invited various people and world leaders to El Rancho Del Cielo where they could see him in his most comfortable element.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Per YAF:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p class=\"p3\"><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cThere\u2019s something about the wild scenery and serenity of the ranch and the easy gait of the horse beneath me that I find particularly relaxing. And while I loved living in the White House, I must confess that nothing in this great wide world of ours quite compares to having a home on the ranch.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\">In a way, inviting books and authors by way of their words into one\u2019s home is just as important as the distinguished global heads of state that came to Reagan\u2019s place of solace. Ronald \u2014 and Nancy Reagan even more than the former president \u2014 left that example for us, the visitors, who will come by the ranch for decades to come. People will be able to see the 40th president\u2019s inspirations and be shown the books he used to find the help and answers that he needed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In this time of division and constant engagement through online resources, we might learn something from the Reagans who were at peace when they got away from Washington and spent their days in the midst of nature, accomplishing tasks which gave them encouragement and fulfillment and perhaps renewed their minds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">A quote that has been attributed to Ronald Reagan sums it up: \u201cThere is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don\u2019t care who gets the credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">This notion applies to those authors and thinkers, too, the ones who are on the bookshelves, the people who perhaps inspired the former president but may never receive due credit for their influence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">To be on the bookshelves in the humble homes of great leaders \u2014 perhaps that is the greatest ambition and the highest achievement, even if it gets little credit.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When pursuing ambitious goals, it can be easy to attach ourselves to important people, but it\u2019s easy to forget that those people were influenced by others who came before them.\u00a0I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314598,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-3208064.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Opinion: What We Can Learn From Ronald Reagan\u2019s Bookshelves","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-3208064.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Opinion: What We Can Learn From Ronald Reagan\u2019s Bookshelves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}