 We can retake the summit of respect and thus look out on a landscape of peace and prosperity and security. We can show courage. We can show valor. And we can give our grandchildren the chance to grow up, not in the shadow of tyranny, but atop our own shining city on a hill. Decline is always a choice, but that is not a choice that Republicans will be making anytime soon. Fifty years ago at a banquet hall a few blocks from where we're sitting, Ronald Reagan spoke at the very first meeting of the