Seeing as the ranch is operated by "Young America," our country's youth sure must be flush with cash.
Back of calendar text:
In 1998, Young America's Foundation saved the Reagan Ranch – Ronald Reagan's home fro 24 years and his favorite place on earth. This historic presidential property will be kept exactly as it was when the Reagans lived there.Those "youth" are a very thinly disguised version of the original YAF. While I've seen some conflicting information as to whether the groups are independent of each other, that seems an intentional obscuring for tax/political status purposes.
Ronald Reagan worked with Young America's Foundation since his days as governor of California. He wanted to ensure his pro-American values – especially free enterprise, personal responsibility, limited government and a strong national defense – would be passed on to young people. With help from generous supporters, Ronald Reagan's beloved Rancho del Cielo and the new Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara will serve as the focus of continuing the Reagan Revolution for generations to come.
Not only do the Jungend seek to inspire their fellow Youths with such well-funded, slick [if lame] PR, but the subject of their adoration provided the paint-by-numbers for a certain successor to follow—and to do up Texas-style.
Just compare:
345 days of "work"/vacation? A mere piker, compared to someone else's 487 + 490...
Reagan, at least, really liked horses.
While that other guy had to acquire a ranch in time for his campaign.
We are asked to believe that Reagan spent much "leadership" time on his "favorite form of relaxation"
Fast forward to "brush cutting"... (A manly activity the WaPoo endorses.)Considering all these books—and some of the types who wrote them—how could Reagan's intellectual stature ever have been in doubt?
Some 2008 news from the WaPoo's Richard Cohen: based on the most reliable of sources (Karl Rove), Cohen reports that "Bush is a prodigious, industrial reader, and this does not conform at all to his critics' idea of who he is."
Exactly as government stopped being evil for as long as he could run it, Reagan was no phony politician...
No, he was a humble man who appreciated simple, presidential-branded clothing 
... like the humble President jacket (left) and The White House polo shirt (right).Well, whaddaya know: today is the flight suit anniversary, which rolls around every May 1.
That particular eight-year PR production—with its logo apparel for every photo op—
took its lessons from the master.And there's this item...
Make that: the Cowboy Chapter of the FCA... Hanging around an "open cathedral"? That sure saved Reagan from actually setting foot in church; see, for example, quote at end of this.
If this advertising his "faith" didn't exactly set a precedent in American politics, Reagan got his party's connection to fundamentalists underway.
Among other abuses in this century (so far), we've had a Republican administration install theocrats at every level of government, while laundering money to "faith-based" political allies.
Just a small sampling (through about half of the second term) is here.
Ronald Reagan: a man you'd like to share a stein with
So like the other guy.
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