Autobiography - The Galindo Group

Ram Galindo THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Page 83
On a more personal level, what to me was even more impressive of my acquaintance
with President Reagan was the opportunity I created for myself to meet some of
America’s great entrepreneurs who supported him. As a result I had a chance to consult
with Trammell Crow, the great real estate developer, for some guidance on my own
small projects. A person who left deep tracks in my wall of role models was Michel
Halbouty, who at the time was serving in a commission advising the President on oil
and gas issues. Mr. Halbouty is widely recognized as the father of hydrocarbon
geology, not only because of the very significant discoveries he made himself, but also
because of the technical books he authored, and for his extremely generous support of
this science at his alma matter, Texas A&M University. He honored me with his
friendship and the warmth of a more intimate contact that allowed me to get a close-up
view of this great man.
The constructive examples provided by the acquaintance of great men such as these
more than made up for the cost of my involvement in trying to get President Reagan reelected.
I eventually came to see Mr. Reagan’s economic policies as the expression of
the creative forces that had launched these men in their successful careers. This
confirmed my belief that each and every one of us is responsible to help pay the cost of
electing the best candidates.
No one knows what would have happened with more of Carter’s type leadership, but
Hollywood was already preparing us with movies about the aftermath of a nuclear war
won by the communists. Hollywood was not, however, doing this to bring Carterites to
their senses; it was trying to scare Americans about the likely result of Reagan’s policies
if he were elected. The Hollywood-Big Media axis was sending signals that it would
have preferred to see America capitulate without firing a shot. It is clear to me that a
cabal of powerful, unprincipled operators, no matter their original ideology, could share
world domination under one imperial regime easier than under a democratic system.
These “one-world” trilateralists were preparing themselves to remain on top no matter
who ultimately won. It appears to me, though, that in their self-admitted wisdom, they
had forgotten how in tyrannical regimes purges always manage to eventually
concentrate power in the hands of one supreme leader - the most ruthless.
Under President Reagan, for the first time in world history, the doors of an expansionist
great world tyranny turned on their hinges and shut the tyrants down without a
convulsive holocaust. America saved the world again and in the process wrote new
historical prescriptions for future generations.
The price we paid was essentially only financial – not even comparable to the blood,
suffering, destruction and economic dislocation it took to bring down the Third Reich
and the Empire of the Rising Sun. Ultimately, I am convinced, history will treat Reagan
as the greatest freedom fighter of the second half of the 20 th Century, mostly because
we won without engaging in any major conflagration during his two terms. His policies
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