REAGAN ON RUSHMORE:  What the great American sculptor and patriot Gutzon Borglum envisioned and built on Mount Rushmore is more than a monument or memorial.  It is, as he intended it to be, a shrine to freedom and American greatness as exemplified by some of our country’s greatest leaders.  He thought of it as “the formal rendering of the philosophy of our government into granite on a mountain peak.”  He meant for viewing it to be a moving experience that would help inspire or reinforce in the visitor the same feeling that drove him to create it – love of our great country. When I spent two days photographing Mount Rushmore I constantly thought about another American giant, the greatest American leader of my lifetime, with whom it is one of the great blessings of my life to have been good friends and strong political allies -- Ronald Reagan.  He left the presidency more years ago than Teddy Roosevelt had when construction of Rushmore began.  It is time to put Ronald Reagan up on Rushmore where he belongs.  This copyrighted creation is one of my images of Mount Rushmore onto which the remarkably talented artist Ted Williams, my good friend and fellow Reagan admirer, has incorporated a splendid rendition of Ronald Reagan.