Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1–Senators Raggio, Amodei, Care, Carlton, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O’Connell, O’Donnell, Porter, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Titus, Townsend, Washington and Wiener

February 6, 2001

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Read and Adopted

SUMMARY—Recognizes February 6, 2001, as Ronald Reagan Day. (BDR R‑1123)

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

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Senate Concurrent RESOLUTION—Recognizing February 6, 2001, as Ronald Reagan Day.

1-1 Whereas, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in the midwestern farming

1-2 town of Tampico, Illinois, on February 6, 1911; and

1-3 Whereas, His job as a radio sports announcer after graduation from

1-4 Eureka College started Ronald Reagan in the public life that would

1-5 eventually lead him to the presidency of the United States; and

1-6 Whereas, Well-known throughout the country as an actor whose film

1-7 career included more than 50 movies, Ronald Reagan’s first official

1-8 leadership role was as President of the Screen Actors Guild, a position he

1-9 held for six 1-year terms; and

1-10 Whereas, The changing political beliefs of Ronald Reagan gradually

1-11 led him to leave his movie career, and he became a spokesman for the

1-12 General Electric Company; and

1-13 Whereas, Ronald Reagan joined the Republican Party in 1962, and in

1-14 1966 he was elected Governor of California, a position which he would

1-15 hold for the next 8 years and which would bring him recognition as a

1-16 politician of national stature; and

1-17 Whereas, After two unsuccessful attempts at the presidency of the

1-18 United States, Ronald Reagan swept all but six states and the District of

1-19 Columbia in the presidential election of 1980 and scored an even greater

1-20 margin of victory in 1984 with the greatest number of electoral votes ever

1-21 tallied by a presidential candidate in the history of American presidential

1-22 elections; and

1-23 Whereas, Inheriting a nation with rampant inflation and high

1-24 unemployment, the theory of supply-side economics, the goal of which was

1-25 to generate growth by stimulating a greater supply of goods and services

1-26 and thereby increase jobs, was a mainstay of the Reagan approach; and

2-1 Whereas, In a remark made during the 1984 campaign, President

2-2 Ronald Reagan commented that he would like to be remembered as

2-3 someone who gave the government back to the people, and he worked

2-4 toward that goal with a bold agenda of restoring accountability and

2-5 common sense to government; and

2-6 Whereas, President Reagan’s social policy agenda for the nation’s

2-7 children helped lower crime and drug use in America’s neighborhoods, and

2-8 his commitment to our armed forces continued to build the national

2-9 strength that he saw as necessary for the protection of freedom in this

2-10 country and throughout the world; and

2-11 Whereas, President Reagan’s vision of “peace through strength” led to

2-12 the end of the Cold War and the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union, thus

2-13 guaranteeing basic human rights for millions of people and easing the

2-14 threat of nuclear war; and

2-15 Whereas, Throughout his years as President, Ronald Reagan displayed

2-16 consistent optimism and the self-confidence that endeared him to millions,

2-17 and even when personal danger touched him, as in the assassination

2-18 attempt in 1981 that left him wounded, he was upbeat and reassuring; and

2-19 Whereas, On February 6, 2001, Ronald Reagan will reach the age of

2-20 90 years, thus becoming the oldest former President in the history of our

2-21 nation; now, therefore, be it

2-22 Resolved by the Senate of the State of Nevada, the Assembly

2-23 Concurring, That the members of the 71st session of the Nevada

2-24 Legislature join with the residents of this state and the residents of the

2-25 entire United States in honoring Ronald Reagan for his many contributions

2-26 to our country and in celebrating his 90 years of life; and be it further

2-27 Resolved, That the Nevada Legislature hereby joins the nation in

2-28 recognizing February 6, 2001, as “Ronald Reagan Day”; and be it further

2-29 Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate prepare and transmit a copy

2-30 of this resolution to former President of the United States, Ronald Reagan,

2-31 and his family.

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