Throwback Thursday: A presidential death

Mr. Reagan was the "unsolved mystery" of modern American politics, as Time magazine described him, confounding friends and enemies alike. He was a budget hawk who tripled the national debt and created record budget deficits with his tax-cutting ‘‘supply-side’’ economic policies, which came to be known as Reaganomics. He was a foreign policy novice who hastened the fall of the Soviet Union and, with it, victory in the four-decade Cold War against the "evil empire."

State Rep. John White, R-Kettering, still remembers Reagan’s 1976 speech in Dayton’s Oregon Historic District during his Republican primary campaign against Gerald Ford. "He made being a conservative cool," White said. "He captured my imagination and encouraged my own experience in politics."