Reagan legacy lives on in his ideological son

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By RUPERT CORNWELL,
WASHINGTON - If you seek his monument look around. There is Ronald Reagan National Airport here, and the vast Ronald Reagan International Trade Centre.
Across the country, there are stretches of Ronald Reagan highway and Ronald Reagan plazas.
If the Republicans in Congress who venerate him have their way, his face will soon appear in everyone's pocket, adorning the humble dime.
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But perhaps the greatest monument to Ronald Reagan is the White House itself: not the physical building with its handsome colonnade and neo-classical grace, but the White House of political shorthand, denoting the Administration of the day.

Imitation, it is said, is the sincerest form of flattery. At the moment of his death Ronald Reagan lives on today above all as the animating model for the 43rd President, George W. Bush.
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It seems others in the world can look at us a bit more objectively than we can see ourselves.