http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-reagan-climate4-2010apr04,0,1093600.story
here's an excerpt...
"What is a conservative after all but one who conserves, one who iscommitted to protecting and holding close the things by which we live,"Reagan's voice intones in one of the ads, from his 1984 speech to theNational Geographic Society. Republicans for Environmental Protection'swebsite offers a transcript of the full speech, in which Reagan says,"And we want to protect and conserve the land on which we live -- ourcountryside, our rivers and mountains, our plains and meadows andforests."
but..."I can say with no hesitation that Ronald Reagan, were he alive today,would not believe that global warming was a crisis and would notsupport energy-rationing legislation," said Myron Ebell, director ofenergy and global warming policy at the pro-market CompetitiveEnterprise Institute.
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