Showing posts with label Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reagan. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Reagan Birthday

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 Ronald Reagan was born on this date in 1911.  From his 1992 address to the Republican National Convention : And whatever else history may ...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Christmas 1983

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President Reagan, December 24, 1983 My fellow Americans: Like so many of your homes, the White House is brimming with greens, colorful decor...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Beirut Bombing, 40 Years Ago Today

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Recent   posts  have discussed the  Hamas  terror attack on  Israel . American officials fear that the conflict could spread to Lebanon.  To...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Biden and Reagan

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Recent posts have discussed the Hamas terror attack on Israel .   Matt Lewis at The Daily Beast : I never thought the day would come when...
Monday, February 13, 2023

A Reagan Myth

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Dan McLaughlin at NRO: On the 112th anniversary of Ronald Reagan ’s birth, we commemorate his many monumental accomplishments as the greate...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

The Peaceful Transfer of Power

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 Liz Cheney in the 1/6 report: At the heart of our Republic is the guarantee of the peaceful transfer of power. Members of Congress are remi...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Reagan at Westminster

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  Forty years ago today, President Reagan spoke to the British Parliament: No, democracy is not a fragile flower. Still it needs cultivatin...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Alito's 1985 Job Application

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In 1985, Samuel Alito applied to be Deputy Assistant Attorney General under Attorney General Edwin Meese during the Reagan Administration ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

How Presidents Mention Their Predecessors

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Amnon Cavari, Benjamin Yoel, Hannah Lowenkamp have an article at American Politics Research titled "In the Name of the President....
Monday, August 10, 2020

Bush, Reagan, Discrimination, Founding Principles

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 Farhat Popal and Christopher Walsh at the George W. Bush Presidential Center : Attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders grew...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Bad Conversation Between Nixon and Reagan

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Tim Naftali at The Atlantic : The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People’s Republic of China, then–California Governo...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Reagan's Last Speech as President

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Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The ...
Saturday, December 29, 2018

What Makes an Effective President?

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At The Washington Examiner , David Drucker asked former Secretary of State George Shultz: what makes an effective president? A key is to ...
Friday, June 1, 2018

Reagan on Free Trade

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Ronald Reagan: "Radio Address to the Nation on the Canadian Elections and Free Trade ," November 26, 1988. Online by Gerhard Peter...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Presidents on Trade Wars

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Too often policies designed to preserve jobs in one industry reduce competitiveness and employment in other industries. A creative, competit...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Trump, Reagan, and the Klan

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Unlike Donald Trump (whose father apparently was in the Ku Klux Klan ), Ronald Reagan (whose father was a Catholic) knew how to criticize ...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Reagan and the Law

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At Bloomberg, Cass Sunstein  recalls his time as a young lawyer in the Justice Department.  The Reaganites, he said, came in and did two sma...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Trump and Reagan

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A couple of weeks ago, Mike Pence compared Trump to Ronald Reagan.   Indeed, there are some superficial similarities. An entertainment bac...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Conventions: The Majority Rules

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Trump is saying that the candidate who enters the convention with a plurality of delegates must get the nomination even with less than a ma...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Religion and Presidential Elections

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At The Los Angeles Times , John-Clark Levin writes: Reagan's success was driven by the defection of evangelicals from Carter's c...