[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11804]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            PAYING TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT RONALD WILSON REAGAN

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning with so many of my 
friends to pay tribute to the 40th President of the United States, 
Ronald Wilson Reagan, and to extend my condolences to his wife Nancy 
and to his family.
  President Reagan will always be remembered as the architect of 
policies that ended the Cold War, peace through strength. He more than 
anyone else was directly responsible for giving us the possibility of a 
world that could live in peace. He ended the Cold War. He ended the 
threat of hostilities between the United States and Russia, and he 
brought an end to the Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.
  He unleashed the power of the American economy. Yes, it cost money to 
defeat the Soviet Union. It cost money to defeat Soviet tyranny, but in 
the long run, was it worth it? You bet it was, for this generation and 
for the generations to come.

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