U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., and George Allen, the man who wants to take his old seat back from Webb, may not agree on everything, to say the least. But as the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth approaches Sunday, both are taking time out to laud the former president.
“He knew how to inspire our countrymen,” Webb, a member of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission and a former Secretary of the Navy under Reagan, said in a recent speech on the Senate floor. “He knew how to bring strong personalities together to work toward the good of the country and for its future. He knew how to make hard decisions.”
Meanwhile, Allen delivered the keynote speech at the City of Alexandria’s Reagan centennial commemoration Friday.
“Patriots, ladies and gentlemen, friends,” he told a crowd in the Alexandria City Council Chambers, “regardless of the challenges that we face as a nation, as a state, as a community…now, and in the future, like Ronald Reagan, let us all be inspired to always stand together, stand together strong…for freedom.”
