concealed genius?

Reagan was a second-rate Hollywood actor who came to the
Presidency when he was already half-senile.

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Reagan was a great president. I do not use "great" to mean
he did much with which I agreed, although I did agree with
much of what Reagan did
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or obvious idiocy?

Ronald Reagan

At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan viewed
with satisfaction the achievements of his innovative program
known as the Reagan Revolution, which aimed to reinvigorate
the American people and reduce their reliance upon
Government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of
1980 to restore "the great, confident roar of American
progress and growth and optimism."

On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to Nelle
and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. He attended high
school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through
Eureka College. There, he studied economics and sociology,
played on the football team, and acted in school plays. Upon
graduation, he became a radio sports announcer. A screen
test in 1937 won him a contract in Hollywood. During the
next two decades he appeared in 53 films.

From his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he had two
children, Maureen and Michael. Maureen passed away in 2001.
In 1952 he married Nancy Davis, who was also an actress, and
they had two children, Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott.

As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became
embroiled in disputes over the issue of Communism in the
film industry; his political views shifted from liberal to
conservative. He toured the country as a television host,
becoming a spokesman for conservatism. In 1966 he was
elected Governor of California by a margin of a million
votes; he was re-elected in 1970.

Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in
1980 and chose as his running mate former Texas Congressman
and United Nations Ambassador George Bush. Voters troubled
by inflation and by the year-long confinement of Americans
in Iran swept the Republican ticket into office. Reagan won
489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter.

On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days later
he was shot by a would-be assassin, but quickly recovered
and returned to duty. His grace and wit during the dangerous
incident caused his popularity to soar.

Dealing skillfully with Congress, Reagan obtained
legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb inflation,
increase employment, and strengthen national defense. He
embarked upon a course of cutting taxes and Government
expenditures, refusing to deviate from it when the
strengthening of defense forces led to a large deficit.

A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped Reagan
and Bush win a second term with an unprecedented number of
electoral votes. Their victory turned away Democratic
challengers Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro.

In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax code,
which eliminated many deductions and exempted millions of
people with low incomes. At the end of his administration,
the Nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of
peacetime prosperity without recession or depression.

In foreign policy, Reagan sought to achieve "peace through
strength." During his two terms he increased defense
spending 35 percent, but sought to improve relations with
the Soviet Union. In dramatic meetings with Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would
eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Reagan
declared war against international terrorism, sending
American bombers against Libya after evidence came out that
Libya was involved in an attack on American soldiers in a
West Berlin nightclub.

By ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf, he maintained
the free flow of oil during the Iran-Iraq war. In keeping
with the Reagan Doctrine, he gave support to anti-Communist
insurgencies in Central America, Asia, and Africa.

Overall, the Reagan years saw a restoration of
prosperity, and the goal of peace through strength seemed
to be within grasp.

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--------------------

For more information about President Reagan, please visit
reagan.utexas.edureagan.utexas.eduOpen ↗

whitehouse.govrr40.htmlOpen ↗

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Reagan was a great president. I do not use "great" to mean
he did much with which I agreed, although I did agree with
much of what Reagan did
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Greatest job of concealment in history.

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Reagan was a great president. I do not use "great" to mean
he did much with which I agreed, although I did agree with
much of what Reagan did
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or obvious idiocy?

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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Ronald Reagan

At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan
viewed with

satisfaction the

Quoted message said:

achievements of his innovative program known as the Reagan
Revolution,

which

Quoted message said:

aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their
reliance upon Government. He felt he had fulfilled his
campaign pledge of 1980 to

restore "the

Quoted message said:

great, confident roar of American progress and growth and
optimism."

On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to
Nelle and John

Reagan in

Quoted message said:

Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby Dixon
and then worked

his

Quoted message said:

way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics
and sociology,

played on

Quoted message said:

the football team, and acted in school plays. Upon
graduation, he became a

radio

Quoted message said:

sports announcer. A screen test in 1937 won him a contract
in Hollywood.

During

Quoted message said:

the next two decades he appeared in 53 films.

From his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he had two
children,

Maureen and

Quoted message said:

Michael. Maureen passed away in 2001. In 1952 he married
Nancy Davis, who

was

Quoted message said:

also an actress, and they had two children, Patricia Ann
and Ronald

Prescott.

Quoted message said:

As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became
embroiled in

disputes over

Quoted message said:

the issue of Communism in the film industry; his political
views shifted

from

Quoted message said:

liberal to conservative. He toured the country as a
television host,

becoming a

Quoted message said:

spokesman for conservatism. In 1966 he was elected
Governor of California

by a

Quoted message said:

margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970.

Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination
in 1980 and chose

as his

Quoted message said:

running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations
Ambassador George

Bush.

Quoted message said:

Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long
confinement of Americans

in

Quoted message said:

Iran swept the Republican ticket into office. Reagan won
489 electoral

votes to

Quoted message said:

49 for President Jimmy Carter.

On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days
later he was shot by

a

Quoted message said:

would-be assassin, but quickly recovered and returned to
duty. His grace

and wit

Quoted message said:

during the dangerous incident caused his popularity
to soar.

Dealing skillfully with Congress, Reagan obtained
legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb inflation,
increase employment, and strengthen

national

Quoted message said:

defense. He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes and
Government

expenditures,

Quoted message said:

refusing to deviate from it when the strengthening of
defense forces led

to a

Quoted message said:

large deficit.

A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped
Reagan and Bush win a

second

Quoted message said:

term with an unprecedented number of electoral votes.
Their victory turned

away

Quoted message said:

Democratic challengers Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro.

In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax
code, which

eliminated many

Quoted message said:

deductions and exempted millions of people with low
incomes. At the end of

his

Quoted message said:

administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest
recorded period of

peacetime

Quoted message said:

prosperity without recession or depression.

In foreign policy, Reagan sought to achieve "peace through
strength."

During his

Quoted message said:

two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent, but
sought to improve relations with the Soviet Union. In
dramatic meetings with Soviet leader

Mikhail

Quoted message said:

Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would eliminate
intermediate-range

nuclear

Quoted message said:

missiles. Reagan declared war against international
terrorism, sending

American

Quoted message said:

bombers against Libya after evidence came out that Libya
was involved in

an

Quoted message said:

attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub.

By ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf, he
maintained the free flow

of oil

Quoted message said:

during the Iran-Iraq war. In keeping with the Reagan
Doctrine, he gave

support to

Quoted message said:

anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America, Asia,
and Africa.

Overall, the Reagan years saw a restoration of prosperity,
and the goal of

peace

Quoted message said:

through strength seemed to be within grasp.

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Reagan was a great president. I do not use "great" to
mean he did much with which I agreed, although I did
agree with much of what Reagan did ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯-
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ or obvious idiocy?

More from Ronald Brownstein's political analysis in
todays L.A. Times:

But Reagan established the foundation for the GOP gains
since then. Both the Republican majority in the House
and Senate, as well as George W. Bush's razor-thin
electoral college majority in 2000, rest on the party's
dominance in the South, an advantage bequeathed to them
largely by Reagan.

Reagan also triggered changes that helped revive the
Democrats. His 49-state victory over Walter F. Mondale
in 1984 inspired the creation of the centrist Democratic
Leadership Council, which spearheaded the critique of
traditional liberalism that led to Clinton's "New
Democratic" message and his presidential victories in
the 1990s.

"It was the 1984 election that I think convinced people …
that the old version of the Democratic Party, whatever its
historical and moral merits, was no longer a viable
majority party," said Galston, who served as Mondale's
issues director in 1984 and later worked in the Clinton
White House.

Much of Clinton's agenda — which sought to balance
opportunity and responsibility and prove that government
activism was compatible with fiscal restraint — tried to
retool liberalism to respond to Reagan's criticisms of it.

At the same time, Reagan inspired thousands of young
conservatives who have come to dominate every aspect of the
Republican Party, from its elected officials to its executive-
branch appointees and political strategists. Almost
everything about George W. Bush's presidency — from its
focus on tax cuts to its moral certitude — reflects Reagan's
imprint more than that of Bush's father, George H.W. Bush.

This may be the most telling measure of Reagan's impact. He
shook the political landscape so powerfully that he became
one of the few who profoundly influenced both major parties,
forcing Democrats toward the center while tilting
Republicans toward the right.

Long after he returned to California, Reagan shaped the
choices that his successors could pursue. He does so
even today.

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criminal, kerry, eh killer?

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Ronald Reagan

At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan
viewed with

satisfaction the

Quoted message said:

achievements of his innovative program known as the
Reagan Revolution,

which

Quoted message said:

aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce
their reliance upon Government. He felt he had fulfilled
his campaign pledge of 1980 to

restore "the

Quoted message said:

great, confident roar of American progress and growth
and optimism."

On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to
Nelle and John

Reagan in

Quoted message said:

Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby
Dixon and then

worked

Quoted message said:

his

Quoted message said:

way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics
and sociology,

played on

Quoted message said:

the football team, and acted in school plays. Upon
graduation, he became

a

Quoted message said:

radio

Quoted message said:

sports announcer. A screen test in 1937 won him a
contract in Hollywood.

During

Quoted message said:

the next two decades he appeared in 53 films.

From his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he had
two children,

Maureen and

Quoted message said:

Michael. Maureen passed away in 2001. In 1952 he married
Nancy Davis,

who

Quoted message said:

was

Quoted message said:

also an actress, and they had two children, Patricia Ann
and Ronald

Prescott.

Quoted message said:

As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became
embroiled in

disputes over

Quoted message said:

the issue of Communism in the film industry; his
political views shifted

from

Quoted message said:

liberal to conservative. He toured the country as a
television host,

becoming a

Quoted message said:

spokesman for conservatism. In 1966 he was elected
Governor of

California

Quoted message said:

by a

Quoted message said:

margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970.

Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination
in 1980 and

chose

Quoted message said:

as his

Quoted message said:

running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations
Ambassador

George

Quoted message said:

Bush.

Quoted message said:

Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long
confinement of

Americans

Quoted message said:

in

Quoted message said:

Iran swept the Republican ticket into office. Reagan won
489 electoral

votes to

Quoted message said:

49 for President Jimmy Carter.

On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days
later he was shot

by

Quoted message said:

a

Quoted message said:

would-be assassin, but quickly recovered and returned to
duty. His grace

and wit

Quoted message said:

during the dangerous incident caused his popularity
to soar.

Dealing skillfully with Congress, Reagan obtained
legislation to

stimulate

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

economic growth, curb inflation, increase employment,
and strengthen

national

Quoted message said:

defense. He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes and
Government

expenditures,

Quoted message said:

refusing to deviate from it when the strengthening of
defense forces led

to a

Quoted message said:

large deficit.

A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped
Reagan and Bush win

a

Quoted message said:

second

Quoted message said:

term with an unprecedented number of electoral votes.
Their victory

turned

Quoted message said:

away

Quoted message said:

Democratic challengers Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro.

In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax
code, which

eliminated many

Quoted message said:

deductions and exempted millions of people with low
incomes. At the end

of

Quoted message said:

his

Quoted message said:

administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest
recorded period of

peacetime

Quoted message said:

prosperity without recession or depression.

In foreign policy, Reagan sought to achieve "peace
through strength."

During his

Quoted message said:

two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent, but
sought to

improve

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

relations with the Soviet Union. In dramatic meetings
with Soviet leader

Mikhail

Quoted message said:

Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would eliminate

intermediate-range

Quoted message said:

nuclear

Quoted message said:

missiles. Reagan declared war against international
terrorism, sending

American

Quoted message said:

bombers against Libya after evidence came out that Libya
was involved in

an

Quoted message said:

attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub.

By ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf, he
maintained the free

flow

Quoted message said:

of oil

Quoted message said:

during the Iran-Iraq war. In keeping with the Reagan
Doctrine, he gave

support to

Quoted message said:

anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America, Asia,
and Africa.

Overall, the Reagan years saw a restoration of
prosperity, and the goal

of

Quoted message said:

peace

Quoted message said:

through strength seemed to be within grasp.

----------------------------------------------------------
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Reagan was a great president. I do not use "great" to
mean he did much with which I agreed, although I did
agree with much of what Reagan did ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯-
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ or obvious
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Can you define bad rubbish and show how person is it?

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Ronald Reagan

At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan
viewed with

satisfaction the

Quoted message said:

achievements of his innovative program known as the
Reagan Revolution,

which

Quoted message said:

aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce
their reliance upon Government. He felt he had fulfilled
his campaign pledge of 1980 to

restore "the

Quoted message said:

great, confident roar of American progress and growth
and optimism."

On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to
Nelle and John

Reagan in

Quoted message said:

Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby
Dixon and then worked

his

Quoted message said:

way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics
and sociology,

played on

Quoted message said:

the football team, and acted in school plays. Upon
graduation, he became a

radio

Quoted message said:

sports announcer. A screen test in 1937 won him a
contract in Hollywood.

During

Quoted message said:

the next two decades he appeared in 53 films.

From his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he had
two children,

Maureen and

Quoted message said:

Michael. Maureen passed away in 2001. In 1952 he married
Nancy Davis, who

was

Quoted message said:

also an actress, and they had two children, Patricia Ann
and Ronald

Prescott.

Quoted message said:

As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became
embroiled in

disputes over

Quoted message said:

the issue of Communism in the film industry; his
political views shifted

from

Quoted message said:

liberal to conservative. He toured the country as a
television host,

becoming a

Quoted message said:

spokesman for conservatism. In 1966 he was elected
Governor of California

by a

Quoted message said:

margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970.

Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination
in 1980 and chose

as his

Quoted message said:

running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations
Ambassador George

Bush.

Quoted message said:

Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long
confinement of Americans

in

Quoted message said:

Iran swept the Republican ticket into office. Reagan won
489 electoral

votes to

Quoted message said:

49 for President Jimmy Carter.

On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days
later he was shot by

a

Quoted message said:

would-be assassin, but quickly recovered and returned to
duty. His grace

and wit

Quoted message said:

during the dangerous incident caused his popularity
to soar.

Dealing skillfully with Congress, Reagan obtained
legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb
inflation, increase employment, and strengthen

national

Quoted message said:

defense. He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes and
Government

expenditures,

Quoted message said:

refusing to deviate from it when the strengthening of
defense forces led

to a

Quoted message said:

large deficit.

A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped
Reagan and Bush win a

second

Quoted message said:

term with an unprecedented number of electoral votes.
Their victory turned

away

Quoted message said:

Democratic challengers Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro.

In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax
code, which

eliminated many

Quoted message said:

deductions and exempted millions of people with low
incomes. At the end of

his

Quoted message said:

administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest
recorded period of

peacetime

Quoted message said:

prosperity without recession or depression.

In foreign policy, Reagan sought to achieve "peace
through strength."

During his

Quoted message said:

two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent, but
sought to improve relations with the Soviet Union. In
dramatic meetings with Soviet leader

Mikhail

Quoted message said:

Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would eliminate
intermediate-range

nuclear

Quoted message said:

missiles. Reagan declared war against international
terrorism, sending

American

Quoted message said:

bombers against Libya after evidence came out that Libya
was involved in

an

Quoted message said:

attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub.

By ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf, he
maintained the free flow

of oil

Quoted message said:

during the Iran-Iraq war. In keeping with the Reagan
Doctrine, he gave

support to

Quoted message said:

anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America, Asia,
and Africa.

Overall, the Reagan years saw a restoration of
prosperity, and the goal of

peace

Quoted message said:

through strength seemed to be within grasp.

--------------------------------------------------------
------------------

------

Quoted message said:

For more information about President Reagan, please
visit reagan.utexas.edureagan.utexas.eduOpen ↗

whitehouse.govrr40.htmlOpen ↗

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Reagan was a great president. I do not use "great" to
mean he did much with which I agreed, although I did
agree with much of what Reagan did ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯-
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ or obvious
idiocy?

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Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Can you define bad rubbish and show how person is it?

"Trees cause pollution." -- R Reagan, playing presidential.
"Catsup is a vegetable." -- E Butz, Sec of Ag. on reducing
school lunches. "Jesus is coming soon." so why save
environment? -- J Watts, Sec of Int. "Off the shelf
operation." -- Casey, DCIA Iran-Contra black ops warrior "I
did it and I'm Glad." -- Ollie North, traitor and thief "I
don't remember. (wink, wink)" -- R Reagan under
investigation. "I was out of the loop." VP GHW Bush. (I know
nothing. noth-thing.)

The Reagan administration was the most corrupt in US
history. The most serious crimes, most indictments and
convictions. (Overturned by friendly judges on appeal, due
to immunity, and pardons by GHW Bush on his election. The
records of that admin have been sealed by dubya.)

Even aside from the policy differences that led to treason,
there were embezzlement and crony giveaways to mining,
logging, HUD, etc. The environment was decimated. The great
deficits of the Reagan/Bush, Bush/Quayle years have never
been paid off, and dubya has done his best to increase the
slide to national bankruptcy.

Under Reagan incentives to business were begun for the
export of american factories and jobs. The MI complex
began the great SDI Starwars defense system boondogle
which dubya revived. Reagan repealed the FCC fairness
doctrine and weakened enforcement of just about all
business controls, particularly monopoly consolidation.
Powell junior is carrying on the FCC tradition of complete
media monopoly. Yay.

Reagan Lied to the american people (and congress) about
"arms for hostages" and "negotiating with terrorists" while
running an illegal war (against the will of congress, namely
us) in Nicaragua. He also supported death squads all over
central and south america, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru
(Pinochet), the great murdering in Argentina, and death
squads all over Africa.. He is the hero of all dictators
everywhere.

He aided Sadaam Husein during the Kurd gassing and Iran war
(with Rumsfeld and Cheney). His CIA corrupted the clerics in
Saudi Arabia to militarize wahabbism and spread it all over
the world, particularly in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Osama
was on the CIA payroll to recruit mujahadeen to drive the
Soviets and their allies, the northern alliance, out of
Afghanistan. (We had to reverse this policy after Osama got
frisky.) We knew where the caves were in Afghanistan,
because the CIA virtually built them.

Reagan had the marines take sides in Lebanon, leading to
terrorist bombing of 240 marines there. So we ran away. But
to prove our strength, we sent a huge combined operation
into the tiny island of Grenada to defeat a few dozen Cubans
who were building an airfield. Whatta comedy. We were
tripping all over ourselves there.

Reagan brought mourning to America, and it still continues.
I'd rather think him a fool than to think he knew all the
harm he was doing. During his presidency, especially the
second term (as shown in the debates), he appeared unable to
separate fact from fiction. But he never was a very clever
man, although charming. He was a convincing actor. Mike
Deever, his trainer, said, "We could tell him to go out and
pick up an acorn on TV and he'd do it." He took direction
all his life. His handler R Ailes now heads Fox TV. They
made sure to get Ronny on TV every night, smiling next to a
flag somewhere. Great flaks, but all show. The Reagan
administaration was Evil and Stupid. And now the chickens
are coming home to roost.

I suppose you're also a Bush fan - the Texas Mass Murderer
turned international genocidist?

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Ronald Reagan

At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan
viewed with

satisfaction the

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achievements of his innovative program known as the
Reagan Revolution,

which

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aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce
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Government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign
pledge of 1980 to

restore "the

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great, confident roar of American progress and growth
and optimism."

On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to
Nelle and John

Reagan in

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Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby
Dixon and then

worked

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his

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way through Eureka College. There, he studied
economics and sociology,

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became

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sports announcer. A screen test in 1937 won him a
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Hollywood.

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Ann and Ronald

Prescott.

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political views

shifted

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spokesman for conservatism. In 1966 he was elected
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margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970.

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nomination in 1980 and

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running mate former Texas Congressman and United
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George

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Bush.

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Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long
confinement of

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in

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Iran swept the Republican ticket into office. Reagan
won 489 electoral

votes to

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49 for President Jimmy Carter.

On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days
later he was

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would-be assassin, but quickly recovered and returned
to duty. His

grace

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during the dangerous incident caused his popularity to
soar.

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legislation to

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economic growth, curb inflation, increase employment,
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national

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defense. He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes
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large deficit.

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Democratic challengers Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro.

In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax
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deductions and exempted millions of people with low
incomes. At the

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prosperity without recession or depression.

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Mikhail

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Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would eliminate

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missiles. Reagan declared war against international
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Libya was involved

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during the Iran-Iraq war. In keeping with the Reagan
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and Africa.

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> Reagan was a great president. I do not use "great"
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Can you define bad rubbish and show how person is it?

Ol' Raygun defined it very well in terms of himself. There
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The Reagan administration was the most corrupt in US
history. The most serious crimes, most indictments and
convictions. (Overturned by friendly judges on appeal, due
to immunity, and pardons by GHW Bush on his election. The
records of that admin have been sealed by dubya.)

Even aside from the policy differences that led to
treason, there were embezzlement and crony giveaways to
mining, logging, HUD, etc. The environment was decimated.
The great deficits of the Reagan/Bush, Bush/Quayle years
have never been paid off, and dubya has done his best to
increase the slide to national bankruptcy.

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We've got the kind of President who thinks that arms control
means some kind of deodorant.
- Pat Schroeder, on Ronald Reagan

The mad dog of the Middle East
- Ronald Reagan, on Colonel Gadaffi

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression
is when you lose yours, and recovery is when Jimmy Carter
loses his.
- Ronald Reagan

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not
War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.
- Ronald Reagan

We are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from
outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits,
Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the
Third Reich.
- Ronald Reagan, on the hijacking of a US plane in 1985

I know for a fact that Mr Reagan is not clear about the
difference between the Medici and the Gucci. He knows that
Nancy wears one.
- Gore Vidal, on Ronald Reagan

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I
have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance
to the first.
- Ronald Reagan

A triumph of the embalmers art.
- Gore Vidal, on Ronald Reagan

He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount
Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the
postage stamps.
- Henry Graff, on Ronald Reagan

In a disastrous fire in President Reagan's library both
books were destroyed. And the real tragedy is that he hadn't
finished coloring one.
- Jonathan Hunt, on Ronald Reagan

In the heat of a political lifetime, he innocently squirrels
away tidbits of misinformation and then, sometimes years
later, casually drops them into his public discourse, like
gumballs in a quiche.
- Lucy Howard, on Ronald Reagan

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and
living in the White House. He makes a Macy's Thanksgiving
Day float look ridiculous. I think he's slowly but surely
regressing into movies again. In his mind he's looking at
dailies, playing dailies over and over.
- Robin Williams, on Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of
national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
- Ronald Reagan

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter, if he'd run
unopposed he would have lost.
- Mort Sahl, on Ronald Reagan

What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who's played with
a chimp, could have a future in politics?
- Ronald Reagan, on Clint Eastwood running for mayor of
Carmel

Compared to the Clintons, Reagan is living proof that
a Republican with half a brain is better than a
Democrat with two.
- P.J. O'Rourke, on Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan couldn't be here tonight, he's posing for the
cover of 'Guns and Ammo'.
- Johnny Carson, on Ronald Reagan

He doesn't die his hair - he's just prematurely orange.
- Gerald Ford, on Ronald Reagan

He doesn't die his hair, he bleaches his face.
- Johnny Carson, on Ronald Reagan

He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount
Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the
postage stamps.
- Henry Graff, on Ronald Reagan

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country
what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
- Steve Martin, on Ronald Reagan

I think Nancy does most of his talking; you'll notice that
she never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
- Robin Williams, on Ronald Reagan

I hear Reagan sleeps a lot; I think its good that we have a
sleeping President - the more he sleeps, the safer we are.
- Arlo Guthrie, on Ronald Reagan

The youthful sparkle in his eyes is caused by his contact
lenses, which he keeps highly polished.
- Sheila Graham, on Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed
legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins
in five minutes.
- Ronald Reagan, said during a radio microphone test, 1984

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are
many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always
write a book.
- Ronald Reagan

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a
big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility
at the other.
- Ronald Reagan

Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the
truth; Reagan cannot tell the difference.
- Mort Sahl, on Ronald Reagan

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to
take care of itself."

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of
national emergency — even if I'm in a Cabinet meeting."

"Well, I learned a lot....I went down to (Latin America) to
find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be
surprised. They're all individual countries"

"My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to announce that I've
signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin
bombing in five minutes." –joking during a mike check before
his Saturday radio broadcast

"I don't know. I've never played a governor." –asked by a
reporter in 1966 what kind of governor he would be

"Facts are stupid things." –at the 1988 Republican National
Convention, attempting to quote John Adams, who said, "Facts
are stubborn things"

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I
have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance
to the first."

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles."

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be
stored under a desk."

"They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why
take the chance."

"There is absolutely no circumstance whatever under which I
would accept that spot. Even if they tied and gagged me, I
would find a way to signal by wiggling my ears." –on
possibly being offered the vice presidency in 1968

"You can tell a lot about a fella's character by whether he
picks out all of one color or just grabs a handful."
–explaining why he liked to have a jar of jelly beans on
hand for important meetings

"I hope you're all Republicans." -speaking to surgeons
as he entered the operating room following his
assassination attempt

"I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue
of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political
purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." -during a
1984 presidential debate with Walter Mondale

"The state of California has no business subsidizing
intellectual curiosity." –responding to student protests on
college campuses during his tenure as California governor

"Approximately 80 percent of our air pollution stems from
hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go
overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards
from man-made sources."

"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression
is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter
loses his."

"We are trying to get unemployment to go up, and I think
we're going to succeed."

"As a matter of fact, Nancy never had any interest in
politics or anything else when we got married."

"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already
been born."

"I'm afraid I can't use a mule. I have several hundred up on
Capitol Hill." –refusing a gift of a mule

"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more
aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the
best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on
the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say,
by choice."

"How are you, Mr. Mayor? I'm glad to meet you. How are
things in your city?" –greeting Samual Pierce, his secretary
of Housing and Urban Development, during a White House
reception for mayors

"My name is Ronald Reagan. What's yours?" –introducing
himself after delivering a prep school commencement address.
The individual responded, "I'm your son, Mike," to which
Reagan replied, "Oh, I didn't recognize you."

"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell
of an opening, you coast for awhile, you have a hell of
a closing."

"What does an actor know about politics?" –criticizing Ed
Asner for opposing American foreign policy

"What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who's played with
a chimp, could have a future in politics?" -on Clint
Eastwood's bid to become mayor of Carmel

"How can a president not be an actor?" -when asked "How
could an actor become president?'

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Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Can you define bad rubbish and show how person is it?

"Trees cause pollution." -- R Reagan, playing
presidential.

Read it and weep, crybaby:

When Ronald Reagan said trees caused pollution, most
people thought he was up a gum tree. Australian
researchers have now discovered that, in the case of
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"Catsup is a vegetable." -- E Butz, Sec of Ag. on reducing
school lunches.

Butz never said it. You fabricated it.

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"Jesus is coming soon." so why save environment? -- J
Watts, Sec of Int.

You took Watt out of context. He didn't say what you're
trying to make him appear to have said. You fabricated it.

The name is Watt, not "Watts". You stupid [censored].

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"Off the shelf operation." -- Casey, DCIA Iran-Contra
black ops warrior "I did it and I'm Glad." -- Ollie North,
traitor and thief "I don't remember. (wink, wink)" -- R
Reagan under investigation. "I was out of the loop." VP
GHW Bush. (I know nothing. noth-thing.)

The Reagan administration was the most corrupt in US
history.

No, it wasn't. Not even close.

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You just don't get it. You don't have to *like* what Reagan
did in order to judge him great. I don't like most of what
FDR and LBJ did, but there is no escaping the fact that
those two fundamentally changed the policy landscape.

Reagan did so at least as much. In the L.A. Times today
(Sunday, 06/06), their political analyst Ronald Brownstein
quotes a Democrat who sums it up succinctly and correctly:

During the New Deal period ushered in by Roosevelt, "the
burden of proof was on those who tried to argue that
government should not act," said veteran Democratic
strategist Bill Galston. "But in the era of Reagan,
which I think we are still in, the burden of proof is on
those who think the government should act. And if you
bear the burden of proof, you have the problem."

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I was just about 28 years old for the election of 1980, and
I remember it and the next few years very vividly. Reagan
DID, fundamentally, change the terms of debate. For 50 years
before Reagan, the government-knows-best statists of the
Democratic party controlled the debate. There were lone
dissenters who argued that government didn't know best and
that we didn't need a nanny state, but the statists
condescendingly dismissed them with arrogant, patronizing
chuckles, and got away with it.

Reagan almost singlehandedly put a stop to that. Very
suddenly, the statists were on the intellectual defensive,
and it showed. Man, did it show! They simply didn't know how
to deal with being outsiders, after 50 years of unchallenged
power. This sudden dumping explains all the futile vitriol
directed toward Reagan. Reagan didn't actually DO anything
that merited the vitriol, except that he stopped the
statists from doing what they wanted to do.

That's a great accomplishment, whether or not you like it.

As Galston notes, we ARE still in the era of Ronald Reagan.
Presidents Hillary and Bill Clinton learned that when they
got the LIVING [censored] KICKED OUT OF THEM (YEAH!) on their
attempt to nationalize health care. If Reagan hadn't changed
the terms of debate, Billary would have won on health care,
and we would today be waiting 6-9 months for coronary bypass
surgery, three years for a flu shot, and everyone with
eyeglasses would be wearing the Kurt Rambis model with 8-year-
old prescriptions.

You can thank Reagan for the 1996 welfare reform act,
California's 1996 Proposition 209 (outlawed affirmative
action) and 1998 Proposition 227 (outlawed bilingual
education), all truly good and outstanding measures. Reagan
created the framework that allowed those measures to be
conceived and win.

Reagan, both Roosevelts, Wilson and Johnson: those were the
great U.S. presidents of the 20th century. Nixon came close,
but didn't fundamentally change anything. No one else came
close, most especially John Kennedy; give Kennedy some
credit, though, for staring down the Russians in 1962.

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Unlike J. 'effing' Kkkerrry, I don't beleive that the Pres
has admitted to commiting war crimes.

Too bad you can't say the same for your guy.

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> Ronald Reagan
>
> At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan
> viewed with
satisfaction the
> achievements of his innovative program known as the
> Reagan

Revolution,

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which
> aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce
> their reliance

upon

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> Government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign
> pledge of 1980 to
restore "the
> great, confident roar of American progress and
> growth and optimism."
>
> On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born
> to Nelle and John
Reagan in
> Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby
> Dixon and then

worked

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his
> way through Eureka College. There, he studied
> economics and

sociology,

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played on
> the football team, and acted in school plays. Upon
> graduation, he

became

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a

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radio
> sports announcer. A screen test in 1937 won him a
> contract in

Hollywood.

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During
> the next two decades he appeared in 53 films.
>
> From his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he
> had two children,
Maureen and
> Michael. Maureen passed away in 2001. In 1952 he
> married Nancy

Davis,

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who

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was
> also an actress, and they had two children, Patricia
> Ann and Ronald
Prescott.
>
> As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan
> became embroiled in
disputes over
> the issue of Communism in the film industry; his
> political views

shifted

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from
> liberal to conservative. He toured the country as a
> television host,
becoming a
> spokesman for conservatism. In 1966 he was elected
> Governor of

California

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by a
> margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in
> 1970.
>
> Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential
> nomination in 1980 and

chose

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as his
> running mate former Texas Congressman and United
> Nations Ambassador

George

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Bush.
> Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long
> confinement of

Americans

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in
> Iran swept the Republican ticket into office. Reagan
> won 489

electoral

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votes to
> 49 for President Jimmy Carter.
>
> On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69
> days later he was

shot

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by

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a
> would-be assassin, but quickly recovered and
> returned to duty. His

grace

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and wit
> during the dangerous incident caused his popularity
> to soar.
>
> Dealing skillfully with Congress, Reagan obtained
> legislation to

stimulate

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> economic growth, curb inflation, increase
> employment, and strengthen
national
> defense. He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes
> and Government
expenditures,
> refusing to deviate from it when the strengthening
> of defense forces

led

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to a
> large deficit.
>
> A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped
> Reagan and Bush

win

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a

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second
> term with an unprecedented number of electoral
> votes. Their victory

turned

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away
> Democratic challengers Walter F. Mondale and
> Geraldine Ferraro.
>
> In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income
> tax code, which
eliminated many
> deductions and exempted millions of people with low
> incomes. At the

end

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of

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his
> administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest
> recorded period

of

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peacetime
> prosperity without recession or depression.
>
> In foreign policy, Reagan sought to achieve "peace
> through

strength."

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> two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent,
> but sought to

improve

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> relations with the Soviet Union. In dramatic
> meetings with Soviet

leader

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Mikhail
> Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would
> eliminate

intermediate-range

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nuclear
> missiles. Reagan declared war against international
> terrorism,

sending

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American
> bombers against Libya after evidence came out that
> Libya was

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> attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin
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>
> By ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf, he
> maintained the

free

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flow

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of oil
> during the Iran-Iraq war. In keeping with the Reagan
> Doctrine, he

gave

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support to
> anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America,
> Asia, and Africa.
>
> Overall, the Reagan years saw a restoration of
> prosperity, and the

goal

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of

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peace
> through strength seemed to be within grasp.
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> > From: Jonathan Ball <[email hidden]>
> > Newsgroups: talk.politics.animals Subject: OT: A
> > great one nears the end Message-ID: <RDowc.2500$u-
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> > Sat, 05 Jun 2004 18:52:33 GMT
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> > Reagan was a great president. I do not use "great"
> > to mean he did much with which I agreed, although
> > I did agree with much of what Reagan did ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯-
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> > or obvious idiocy?
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Another rightie bites the dust <plonk!>

"Karl Hungus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Keynes" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

The Reagan administration was the most corrupt in US
history. The most serious crimes, most indictments and
convictions. (Overturned by friendly judges on appeal,
due to immunity, and pardons by GHW Bush on his
election. The records of that admin have been sealed by
dubya.)

Even aside from the policy differences that led to
treason, there were embezzlement and crony giveaways to
mining, logging, HUD, etc. The environment was
decimated. The great deficits of the Reagan/Bush,
Bush/Quayle years have never been paid off, and dubya
has done his best to increase the slide to national
bankruptcy.

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