Ronald Reagan

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• 4/19/2020
  

  Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump: Adventures in Presidential Credibility

  by Donne Levy

  It is clear that if many white Americans feel alienated and powerless, they will vote for a candidate whose stories promise a better future or greater status for themselves, even if that candidate tells incredible falsehoods and appeals to racism

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/5/2020
  

  Scapegoating New York Means Ignoring Its Desperate Need

  by Kim Phillips-Fein

  Blaming the city for coronavirus is a way of letting the federal government off the hook.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/28/2020
  

  John Sears, Who Helped Guide Nixon And Reagan to The White House, Dies at 79

  John P. Sears was a powerful influence on Republican politics for over a decade.

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• SOURCE: Penn Live
  3/30/2020
  

  ‘Honey, I Forgot to Duck’: The Attempted Assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981

  On March 30,1981 President Ronald Reagan was shot while leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C..

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/3/2020
  

  Bernie Sanders is the Left's Ronald Reagan

  by Sam Tanenhaus

  Bernie Sanders remade his party with a youth movement he built from the outside. Just like the Gipper did.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  February 26, 2020
  

  Joe Biden is making a Supreme Court promise. Ronald Reagan did, too.

  Though some critics may dismiss it as pandering, a promise like this has a proven track record. Ronald Reagan vowed to put a woman on the Supreme Court; it was a key part of his campaign for president in 1980.

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  2/9/20
  

  The forgotten book that launched the Reagan Revolution

  by Craig Fehrman

  While Reagan’s biographers have explored the influence of GE and SAG on the budding politician, they’ve largely ignored what came next — namely “Where’s the Rest of Me?”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/16/20
  

  Another Disability Disaster in the Making

  by Jonathan M. Stein

  The Trump administration’s Social Security proposal would repeat one of Ronald Reagan’s most damaging mistakes.

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• SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal
  11/6/19
  

  Berlin Didn’t Want a Reagan Statue—but It’s Getting One Anyway

  Seven-foot replica of former president to be inaugurated at U.S. Embassy, overlooking site of Berlin Wall

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/2/2019
  

  How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan’s Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon

  Tim Naftali was the first director of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in Yorba Linda, California.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/30/19
  

  Historian Tim Naftali Unearths Audio of Ronald Reagan's Racist Conversation with Nixon

  by Tim Naftali

  In newly unearthed audio, the then–California governor disparaged African delegates to the United Nations.

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• 4/14/19
  

  How did President Reagan Deal with Violent Radicals In His Own Party?

  by Jeffrey Kaplan

  Trump's reaction to the tragedy in New Zealand and the series of domestic church and synagogue shootings bring to mind an earlier day and a very different president.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/11/19
  

  ‘Not a racist bone in his body’: The origins of the default defense against racism

  by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer

  The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  2/26/19
  

  John Komlos Argues Ronald Reagan's 1981 Tax Cut Led To Trumpism

  His most depressing observation is that we may be stuck in a downward spiral.

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• 2/3/19
  

  Why Elliott Abrams is the Right Man for the Job in Venezuela

  by Teresa Meade

  His career stretches back through some of the most sordid instances of US intervention and brutality.

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• 1/22/19
  

  What Does William Barr Have to Do With Iran Contra?

  by Jeffrey J. Matthews

  And what it means for George H.W. Bush's legacy. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  1/18/19
  

  Why Reagan's 'Star Wars' Defense Plan Remained Science Fiction

  Despite criticisms from politicians, many scientists and others that the SDI was impractical, expensive and dangerous, the concept was developed during a frightening era.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-3-18
  

  A Conservative Group Is Using Ronald Reagan to Attack President Trump's Immigration Policies

  The ad, paid for by the Becoming American Initiative, uses audio of a Reagan speech in which he praised immigrants and their contributions to American society, along with footage and photographs of the Statue of Liberty and various immigrants through the years.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-2-18
  

  Like Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan tried to keep out asylum seekers

  by Carly Goodman

  Activists thwarted him.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-7-18
  

  Trump’s treatment of Canada is another reminder that he’s nothing like Reagan

  by Fred Hiatt

  The abject willingness of Republican politicians to discard their supposed fidelity to Reaganite principles has become so familiar in the Trump era that we hardly notice any longer.