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		<title>Foreign Policy and the 2012 Presidential Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Johns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a little over six months, voters in both major American political parties will begin the official process of selecting their respective presidential nominees.  Of course, the race for the White House in 2012 unofficially began on 5 November 2008 (the day after Barack Obama won his first term) and really picked up steam after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30th Anniversary of the 1980 Election Roundtable&#8211;An Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/30th-anniversary-of-the-1980-election-roundtable-an-introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Etheridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SHAFR.org is delighted to present its last roundtable of the year.  Thirty years ago this month the United States witnessed one of the most important elections in recent history when Ronald Reagan captured the presidency and ushered in a new era of national politics.  In our roundtable, three prominent historians of this era discuss different but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reagan and American Mood</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/reagan-and-american-mood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Troy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the claims and counterclaims regarding Ronald Reagan’s 1980 electoral victory, one clarifying contradiction emerges. Yes, Reagan exaggerated, alleging a mandate for his Reagan Revolution which never existed. Yet, when Reagan implemented a more muscular, more flamboyantly patriotic, up-with-America, down-with-the-Communists foreign policy, he was doing what the American people hired him to do.
Ronald Reagan began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1980 Election and American Foreign Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Busch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The election of 1980 took place in an atmosphere of considerable concern by Americans that the position of the United States in the world had dangerously slipped. Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, at least ten countries had tumbled into the Soviet orbit. When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, it was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching about Ronald Reagan by Confronting Contradictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Domber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the thirtieth anniversary of his inauguration and the twenty-second anniversary of his exit from the White House, Ronald Reagan has attained an iconic status, beloved by the political right and often vilified by the political left. Because Reagan retreated from the public eye before most incoming freshman were born, he is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ronald Reagan, the Election of 1980, and Foreign Affairs: What You See Isn’t Always What You Get</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/ronald-reagan-the-election-of-1980-and-foreign-affairs-what-you-see-isn%e2%80%99t-always-what-you-get/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester Pach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I had an agenda I wanted to get done,” Ronald Reagan explained after the end of his presidency. “I came with a script.” Thirty years ago, after trouncing Jimmy Carter in the election of 1980, Reagan brought that script to the White House. Its main elements are now familiar. Reagan wanted to diminish the power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 4/6/2010</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/04/06/weekly-digest-462010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month marked the 30th anniversary of Congress passing the Refugee Act. It’s a good time to examine gaps in our refugee policy, especially as we prepare for an influx of refugees from Darfur. [more]
The dew had barely dissipated from Barack Obama&#8217;s inaugural as the four senior men slipped into the Oval Office. The executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 3/30/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/30/2258/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been scanning through the news coverage of the Hutaree militia, nine of whose members were arrested by federal officials this week, and we&#8217;ve noticed an almost complete absence of the use of the words &#8220;terrorism&#8221; or &#8220;terrorist.&#8221; [more]
President Obama showed courage in going to Afghanistan to talk to the troops, but he’s just getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 3/15/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/15/weekly-digest-31510/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Pakistan Taliban members in the tribal areas say the onslaught of US drone attacks and Pakistani offensives in recent months is forcing the group underground and creating fractures. [more]
Israeli media reported Monday that the U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons for Late Baby Boomers</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/lessons-for-late-baby-boomers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Zeiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m eight months older than President Barack Obama, so we fall into the same generation.  Of course, the similarities end there, including his ascent to a slightly higher administrative level than I will ever reach.  Still, we share some things in common because we gained an awareness of the world around the same time, in [...]]]></description>
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