"Kidan said that while in Washington, he kept up his close friendship with Abramoff, whom he had known since the early 1980s, when they were active in the Young Republicans. They had met when Kidan was an undergraduate at George Washington University and Abramoff was at Georgetown Law School, where he became the national head of the College Young Republicans.
Kidan said he had always been a staunch Republican, inspired by Ronald Reagan".
Couple of young inspiring Republicans just trying to get by in life. Sixty-million dollar fraud and one little
gangland murder and all of sudden everybody gets a little uptight.
Other former College Republican leaders
Ralph Reed, and
Grover Norquist, (former Executive Director of the National Committee)who are now also caught up in the Abramoff scandal were also inspired by Ronnie Reagan.
All four agreed they were most inspired by 'the Gipper' when he and Oliver North hid in the White House basement cooking up ways to sell weapons to the Iranian Hezbollah terrorists to get money to arm the Contras.
