“The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation has orchestrated a $15 million renovation to be unveiled in a private ceremony as part of Reagan’s 100th birthday celebration Sunday. It will open to the public Monday,” DiNardo reports. “Several weeks ago, as electricians still tinkered, I previewed the museum with Rob Bauer, director of external affairs. The exhibits still trace Reagan’s life from his childhood to his years as a lifeguard through his careers as a sports announcer, actor, governor of California and president.”
“With all due respect to Bauer, however, the true charmer is his partner on our tour: an iPod touch. In addition to 180 video screens, two teleprompters and a green screen, the museum now features 250 of the patent-pending devices to lead you through the displays,” DiNardo reports. “The iPod touch provides the audio tour, giving background at specifically designated spots. More interestingly, it allows me to take photos and video as I wander through the museum.”
DiNardo reports, “I finish the tour, thank Bauer and return the iPod touch. But it’s not over. Within hours, I have an e-mail from the museum with a link to a Web page housing my personal media library of all the pictures and videos I took on my visit. From here, I can download my tour or share it through Facebook and Twitter. An endless encore for my trip.”
Read more in the full article here.
One of them is how to escort Pelosi out of the building via the back way with the rest of the garbage.
The best feature is the official Reagan Library video game where you trade hostages for guns for cocaine.
Thats a terrific use for the iPod Touch. Hopefully they will incorporate iPads.
Ronald Reagan is one of America’s Top 3 Presidents.
1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. Reagan
Washington eschewed the offer of a kingdom and built the greatest country the world has ever seen, Lincoln saved the union, and Reagan won the cold war and lifted the country out of malaise both of heart, reigniting patriotism and pride, and economic, by cutting taxes to spur an economic boom that lasted decades.
When I first heard the story this morning, I thought they said iPads.
Only the begining, more people will turn to ipod and iPads for uses like this.
Actually… Didn’t mdn post a story about some museum using iPod’s like this also? Maybe it was in a magazine…
Reagan Facts
1. Reagan tripled the national debt
2. Reagan raised taxes 11 times
3. Reagan expanded the size of government
4. Reagan supported the “socialist” Earned Income Tax Credit
5. Reagan negotiated with terrorists in Tehran
6. Reagan sought to eliminate nuclear weapons
7. Reagan gave amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants
8. Reagan approved protectionist trade barriers
9. Reagan signed abortion rights law in California
10. Reagan eventually debunked AIDS myths Republicans continued to perpetuate
I was just watching Inside Edition and they were showing Ron Reagan trashing out Sarah Palin. He’d better hope she never gets within punching distance because I’m sure she could whip his sissy little ass.
If Bush SR. did not fix all that Reagan broke the world would remember him as he should be the 2nd worst president in history, only one worse was dubya.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bush41/program/
@geoman
1. Over 8 years, and it is less than the Obama administrations increases over 2 years
2. Reagan signed bills, but Congress raises taxes, not the President.
3. So has every President in the past 240 years. It is always a matter of proportion.
4. Political realities of dealing with a Democratic Congress
5. In the context of the times, he did the right thing. In leaving Lebonon after the barracks bombing, I think he made a mistake. Still, none of us know what the President knows
6. Not unilaterally.
7. Reagan and even many conservative truly believed that that Amnesty deal was to be a one-time deal with more aggressive border security to follow. The borders stayed as porous as ever. That’s why conservatives won’t believe any promises of a deal to strengthen immigration rules in return for an amnesty to those here now. Once burned, twice shy.
8. Yes and he also fired all the Air Traffic Controllers who wanted to strike, thus breaking that union.
9. As Governor of the State. Thus affirming that Rowe v Wade was a bad ruling from an activist Supreme Court. States were quite capable of legislating pro-abortion laws without obfuscating the issue by deeming it a “right”.
10. What myths are those?
Happy 100th, Gipper.
And to the likes of geoman
if you don’t understand the context, you are just wasting words.
Nice try…
Call a spade a spade:
A 3rd class B movie actor who was so bad that he had to use a chimpanze for promotion and who haf craft disease while in office is n
And who the fuck cares…
That’s great usage, ideally suited for an iPod touch. I’m glad they picked the right Apple device, and did not try to “force” an iPad into the picture, just because iPad is the “hot” device. Less expensive per unit, much easier to carry around, better for an audio tour, and able to take video and photos along the way.
Every “enterprise” that is currently considering an iPad should also consider an iPod touch. There are obviously cases where an iPad is better and even necessary, but in other case, and iPod touch is the less costly, more portable, and better-suited solution.
Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, “roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether.”
Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts. Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded.
Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously. Reagan promised “to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending,” but federal spending “ballooned” under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it, and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future.
Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Talbian and Osama Bin Laden — a prominent mujahidin commander — emerged from these mujahidin groups Reagan helped create, and U.S. policy towards Pakistan remains strained because of the intelligence services’ close relations to these fighters.
Superior Being
I would have to add FDR to that list.
Not for the years 33-39, for which he prolonged and aggravated the Great Depression, but for the years of WWII, which I believe he handled as well as any human possibly could.
A 3rd class B movie actor, who was so bad that he had to use a chimpanzee for promotion and who had craft disease while in office is not anything to be proud of .
First — and most importantly — Reagan never balanced a budget. In fact, Reagan never came close to balancing a budget. For all of his talk about hating big government, Reagan did a fair amount of solid work in creating a bigger federal government.
In particular, it seems that the Republicans would do better by talking up Eisenhower than canonizing Reagan.
I’ve despised the latter since he was governor of California (he helped to demolish a magnificent public education system during his tenure).
@@Spark
The Democrats funded those initiatives.
Nice try.
Tell’em bout it, Capt. Dan
..and speak UP!!!
@Towertone
As usual, your unabashed conservative fanbois shows. The fact that you’re a fellow musician make me want to vomit. Mind you, I’m sure you are a fan of the “pops” charts. Couldn’t expect anything but the most commercial from the types of you.
MDN Magic Word=line
as in draggin’ the-
@Tower Tone @Spark
At least Spark did his homework rather than just fly the GOP flag. Ronald Ray-gun-Zap might have been a charismatic Pres. but hardly within the top 10. As a matter of fact, his acting (if you can call it that) career probably helped him more than anything else. “Let’s see, I think I’ll use the old “get one for the gipper” line today, that outa’ work on those ignorant peasants. Anyone remember the Iran-Contra affair?? Short memory Tower, short memory, yeah let’s just outspend those Commies, so what if the mainstream goes broke, we fsckin” showed em”, (whips revolver back into holster). The man was a fsckin” Hollywood reject and you want to move him on to Sainthood, are you retarded????
“As usual, your unabashed conservative fanbois shows.“
Why, thank you!
“The fact that you’re a fellow musician make me want to vomit.“
You should hear my playing, then you would really want to vomit…
“I’m sure you are a fan of the “pops” charts“
Yes, I am, including the aforementioned Sir Elton John.
And country, too. Huge Dwight Yoakam fan, not to mention Merle.
And blues, of course. Allman Bros. and SRV. I’ve got some Lightnin’ Hopkins, Muddy, BB and Robert Johnson, too.
Today I have had smart album of Pat Metheny playing. He goes with the sunshine we finally had. I’ve about wore my 7 Miles albums out while we were (slightly) snowbound. Maybe I should have listened to some Weather Report? Some Jaco to warm up the place? Diana Krall can do that trick for me fast!!!
But my favorite song file has Jeff Beck from Blow by Blow, Wired, and There and Back, plus George Benson’s ‘Breezin'”, some more Pat Metheny (Bright Size Life), Trio of Doom, some early Dire Straights, and Robin Trower.
That gets things going!
But when the house is empty, I sure like to put me some Classical on.
That Sergi Rachs!!!
I’m sorry, did I forget to mention that I studied under this man?
http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/leon-breeden/
@ MacMaster,
Sounds like the only instrument you play is the skin flute.
“Short memory Tower, short memory,”
Actually, I lived in DC from ’86 to ’90.
I met and worked around a lot of people in all aspects of the government, left, right, and center. I remember a great deal about that time. I also understood it. You can’t blame FOXNews and Rush for that.
So, I don’t know what dealings you had, or if you were even born yet, or just go for what Hollywood and the NY Times spoon feeds you, but I remember what a great leader he was after 15 years of riots, assassinations, Watergate, Vietnam, gas shortages, NASA gutted, and Jimmy Carter.
What you list are just incidentals.
I’d take a dead Reagan over a living Palin, or any other GOP Reagan wannabes. Hell, just prop him up on a stick like el Cid and that should scare all the Muslin terrorists straight.
“Reagan won the cold war and lifted the country out of malaise both of heart, reigniting patriotism and pride, and economic, by cutting taxes to spur an economic boom that lasted decades”
It really is that simple in your mind, isn’t it? lol
Can I ask what your major was in University?
Wow. You Americans don’t like each other, heh?
@Tower Tone
I’m a 56 er” so yeah I was definitely around for all of that, your musical influences are similar to mine, as are your “musical chops”, what I don’t get is how we can have such a different ideology. We could perhaps, be great friends musically but politically 180 degrees. I’d like to be reasonable in light of recent events and overall as a person occupying the same planet for everyone’s good. I’ll back off the political one up-mans-ship if you will, in the interests of making music and promoting a peaceful and productive change. What’da say, I’m tired of all this bullshit. Rock-on.
“what I don’t get is how we can have such a different ideology.”
I was raised in a working class environment early in my life, then learned economics through my parent’s businesses, then struck out on my own early and lived near poverty for five years with two kids.
All my rants are based on real world experience. Where money comes from, where it goes, and what it does in between to a blue collar man.
If not for actual journalists who brought it to light, under Reagan, one of his political appointees would’ve gone through with classification of ketchup and relish as vegetables to save some money serving lunches at schools to poor kids.
Now there’s a real President and person. Boy I miss those days. This country is in an out of control tail spin thanks solely to liberalism/Marxism. 2012 can’t come soon enough. We have to rid ourselves of these lunatics. I love the new laws being enacted by more than 10 states demanding the original birth certificate for all presidential hopefuls. That will knock Maobama out of the race.
iPod Touches rock and so did/does Reagan!
Macmaster and comrades,
You vile, scum of the earth are on an incoherent death spiral for the US. If you hate it here so much just leave. Move to one of those communist Utopia’s around the world and leave us hard working, producers the hell alone. Reagan was beyond the best. You commies are beyond the worst. Right on Reagan Library! Keep up the Apple goodness.
@You Pompous Ass
I had to Wikipedia “skin flute” as I didn’t know what you were referring to to, apparently it comes from your home town, how were you ever birthed???? That means” birth certificated”. By the by, just how pompous is your ass anyways, you know that means, umm, rather large, why not go by ” enormous ass” next time so we all know just how big you are, and while you’re researching the above, why not make a pledge to elucidate (not the trance duo) yourself as to the more refined aspects of musical instruments, i.e. the Bodhran, which probably puts your musical heritage to shame.
RE- Superior Being
“Ronald Reagan is one of America’s Top 3 Presidents.
1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. Reagan”
You are joking, right?
I think you need to separate Reagan the Myth from Reagan the President. He was a good pitchman and loved America. Let’s leave it at that.
RE: @Breeze
I guess it is true… Obama IS Reagan-esque!
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No one is joking, Reagan was one of the best of the best. Liberals are the worst of the worst.
@Kelly
Actually I’d prefer “you scum and collegium” as “communist’s” is really too strong a word for the present day approach. Communists is SO sixties, where have YOU been. I’m unaware of the “Utopias” you speak of, any manifestos I’ve read have certainly failed to mention this, mostly it’s hard work and death. Perhaps it resides where the ” Cock brothers” live, or is it the Koch” brothers, they certainly don’t seem to have any worries about survival, but that’s unbridled Capitalism for you.
Peace
Jane Wyman was right!
Macmister,
Canada, UK, Europe, Russia, China, etc. You would fit in very nicely in any one of those Marxists bastions. Please leave us hard working folk alone. We don’t need any more hope and change from Obamaninadjeen. He has hurt this country more than can be imagined. It will be proven that he was never eligible to be President and we conservatives will revoke everything done to us by him and his cronies.
x marks the spot where the brain cells withered away and died.
Bitchslapped the assdumb clown libs.
Yes Mebucaine, the majority of the country hate liberals!
Well I see everyone remains absurdly predictable.
I loved Reagan’s movie “This Is The Army”, full of sweating, shirtless men and not one but two drag cabarets. Elton John only wishes he was as gay as that movie.
@ ChrissyOne
Am I absurdly predictable?
@ChrissyOne
I was going to go with “predictably absurd”
@Superior Being?
Really seems like some people aren’t up on their presidential history:
1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. Teddy Roosevelt
4. Jefferson
5. FDR
6. Polk
7. Jackson
8. Truman
9. Wilson
10. Eisenhower
There is a reason why TR is on Mt Rushmore… Placing Reagan that high on your list shows that a lot of people are desperate for a “great” Republican president. We had one in the 20th century and sorry Reagan while a fine president was no in the same league as TR and certainly not worth of Mt. Rushmore.
As usual conservatives tend to over estimate Reagan’s importance while liberals tend to under estimate. The reality is somewhere in the middle. Reagan was important but he wasn’t even the best Republican president of the 20th century.
It’s also ironic that the “big tent party” that he created is now vilified by the Republicans and they now embrace this weird right wing ethos in his name. Equally ironic that as a more centrist politician in his governing (note, I didn’t say his ethics or morals) that he would never get the nod from his own party now. Reagan when you look at him, really look at him was a pragmatist.
The other reality is that the President has little control of economies whether they boom or bust: Too much blame when things are bad, too much credit when its good. Its like NFL QBs in sense.
Lest anyone think I spare the Dems: their last great president was Truman. Kennedy was a dream that has become legend and myth, just like the Republicans idolization of Reagan. Slick Willy didn’t vote for him.
And to close this all out I wish I had more choices because listening to both of the parties and their whiny crybaby supporters is tiresome. Don’t like it too bad. How about you all move out of my country if you can’t work together. And ironically Reagan understood that, the modern Republican Party doesn’t, they are too busy worrying about 2012. Which if they run Palin they might as well give the office to the Dems for 4 more years.
And since I mentioned TR Roosevelt, the Repubs should look at the election of 1912. If they run Palin they run a real possibility of splitting the party and ensuring a Dem win
@geoman
You left out the S&L catastrophe. After legalizing gambling by the S&Ls;, the Reagan administration also wanted to eliminate regulatory audits. When they couldn’t, they used the expedient of slashing the audit budget virtually to zero. So not only were the foxes given an escalator to the hen house, the guard dogs were put to sleep.
Reagan was such a a patriot and American. We are under assault from the communists, Marxists, etc. posing as liberal democrats. We see and know what is happening. You people are not the masterminds you think you are. Anyone who isn’t a lost drone-sheeple should read The Law by Frederick Bastiat. Sums it up back in 1850. Chrissyzero you are a sad, sick person.
Good leaders are hard to come by because they have to start with who they are and not what others think they are. He was there when he felt very bad we had hostages in Iran and he did not like what he felt. Thankfully we felt the same and elected him.
Holy crap, is this really an Apple news site?
I love how Reagan fcked up Latin America.
Nobody’s convincing anyone. Save your typing.
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Ronald Reagan. ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’.
Case closed!!!
Good ol’Ronnie… he killed our manufacturing base. Stabbed the labor unions in the back (he used to run one himself: The Screen Actors Guild). Portrayed people who lost their jobs as lazy (like acting is hard work). Ignored the homeless and victims of AIDS. Caused a recession with his crazy harebrained tax scheme. Caused the 1989 savings-and-loan scandal with an earlier deregulation bill. Invaded Grenada to cover up his disaster in Lebanon. Joked about starting World War III. Sold weapons to Iran. Used the profits to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua. Called the fascist terrorists he was funding there “the moral equivalent of our founding fathers.” Sold weapons to Saddam Hussein. Sold weapons to Afghan rebels, some of whom went on to form the Taliban, others of whom went on to form al-Qaeda. Worst of all, inspired a generation of insane right-wingers who thought tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, and saber-rattling over diplomacy were the way to lead.
Ronald Reagan was not a great President, or even a good President. He just played one on TV.
Sometimes it feels like, the more intellectually challenged a person (politician/leader) is, the bigger his or her chances are to get admired by the American right wing fraction. I mean, hot damn, some of the stuff I hear is really frightening me. Isn’t history mandatory in school anymore?
@ MacMaster,
That semi-coherent babble of yours really doesn’t do much to support your delusions of superiority. Apparently your perception of peoples abilities revolves around their ability to play musical instruments. The extent of my musical prowess was was with a flutophone in elementary school in the fifties, and I was just as lousy as all the other kids.
So, unless you are the reincarnation of Jascha Heifetz or Sergei Rachmaninoff, I’m not impressed.
dingo,
you really are an idiot aren’t you?