RIP REAGAN
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well, Afghanistan didn't help Soviets very much either....
in addition here' s some blood curdling quotes:
"How blessed the whole world is that he held office for as long as he did," Navy Ensign Laurie Zimmet, 40, of Los Angeles, said early Tuesday. "As far as I'm concerned, he's the greatest president of the 20th century."
Patricia Roccaforte said Reagan had made her feel safe.
"I was praying the whole time he was alive we would live up to all he thought we could do," said Roccaforte, 61, of Tustin. "He was so optimistic about us. He's in the hands of God now -- as he always has been."
A man in cowboy boots and jeans held his hat over his heart.
"On my way out, I saluted him -- both of us did," said Don Procter, 83, a former Marine who came from Altadena with his wife, Lorraine.
Though brief, the time in the library was enough for Scotia Alves, 51, of Camarillo, who said she and her husband started a car stereo company in their garage at the beginning of Reagan's presidency.
"Reaganomics was good for business. ... I felt gratitude to him," she said.
Charles Shelton, 38, a Los Angeles lawyer, was struck by the range of people.
"It's a testament, how broad his appeal was," said Shelton, who voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader in 2000 and plans to vote for Democrat John Kerry but called himself a "Reagan Republican."
"He's a different type of Republican ...," Shelton said. "He was tough, yet graceful."
Salvador Ayala, 74, came from Simi Valley with three other veterans.
"He won the Cold War without firing a shot. He was the greatest president that we ever had, and I'm a Democrat," said Ayala, who served in the Korean War.