By: Jim Meyers

Saturday is Ronald Reagan’s birthday, and his son Michael Reagan tells Newsmax that the legacy of America’s 40th president can be summed up in one word: freedom.

But Reagan criticized the current president, Barack Obama, for “apologizing” for America instead of “uplifting” the nation as President Reagan had.
 Michael Reagan is the host of a nationally syndicated radio show, a Newsmax columnist, and head of the Reagan Legacy Foundation.

 He said he’d mark his father’s birthday first by speaking Friday night at Eureka College in Illinois, where his father graduated with an economics degree.

 “Wouldn’t you like everyone who serves as president of the United States to have an economics degree?” Reagan said wryly. 

He also scheduled Saturday visits to Tampico, Ill., where his father was born, and Dixon, Ill. where he went to high school, before attending a dinner in Chicago with the Reagan Legacy Foundation. 



Newsmax.TV’s Ashley Martella asked Reagan about the importance of President Reagan’s legacy today. 

“The importance of the legacy is freedom,” Reagan declared.

 “With Ronald Reagan it was always about freedom. He never believed that others should not be free as we are free in the United States, and he brought that message to the rest of the world.

 “Young people here need to understand the importance of fighting for those freedoms, to keep those freedoms that we have.




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