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If you look back at Ronald Reagan\u2019s career, whether you agree with his policies or not, there\u2019s one thing no one can dispute, and that\u2019s his staunch, hopeful patriotism. Journalist and author Nancy Gibbs wrote, \u201cHope is an infectious disease, and Reagan was a carrier. The country he courted and finally won over in 1980 was a dispirited place, humiliated abroad, uncertain at home, with a hunger for heroes but little faith that they could make any difference. But you can, he told us. I am not the hero, you are.\u201d "Let us renew our faith and our hope," he declared in his first Inaugural Address. "We have every right to dream heroic dreams." And he would serve as Dreamer in Chief. "What I'd really like to do," he said after six months in the White House, "is go down in history as the President who made Americans believe in themselves again."