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VOICES | Issue: "Don't run, Newt" April 14, 2007

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Some conservatives hurt conservatism | Marvin Olasky

SANTA BARBARA—Rancho del Cielo, the former Reagan ranch in the costal mountains above this city, has beautiful views and a 1,500-square-foot ranch house. Ronald Reagan lived here from 1974 to 1995 (vacation home from 1981 to 1989) amid simple but comfortable furnishings: rattan armchairs, a plain wooden dining room table, Indian rugs on whitewashed walls, an oak loveseat rocker, a den with a tile floor and sheepskin rugs.

The house disappointed Mikhail Gorbachev, who expected a capitalist tool to display bling. What's worse, Reagan laid the stone patio in front of the ranch house himself, repaired and built fences, re-roofed the home using red Spanish tiles made from fiberglass, and waded into the adjacent pond to catch water snakes. "Nekulturny," Russians would say—not cultured activities for a leader.

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April 14, 2007, Vol. 22, No. 13

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