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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]