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He followed the worst president in history, Jimmy Carter, and turned a disastrous and hopelessly stagflationary economy into one that created as much new wealth as there was in West Germany. He turned the hopeless and endless humiliation of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy into a triumphantly liberating one that helped dismantle the Soviet Union, which had 30,000 nuclear warheads pointed at us, without firing a shot. So he was great in economics and he was great in international affairs. He could have done better--so could we all--but was still one of the three greatest Presidents in history and one of the dozen greatest world leaders of all time.
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that he couldn't seem to say the word AIDS when thousands of people were dying.
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Although he was a bit conservative for my taste, at least he understood that he was the president for all of America, not just the ones who voted for him.
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I loved his values, integrity, strength, wisdom and determination. We had not seen leadership such as him for a long time before and have not seen anything even close since his presidency.
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I loved his character(that so many politicians lack) His patriotism! His ability to get things that no one else could, ending the Cold War, getting the hostages out of Iran, rebuilding our economy and giving Americans hope after that disgrace Carter. etc, etc.
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Reagan's administration, just like Bush's, was run by movement conservatives - people who built their careers by serving the alliance of wealthy individuals, corporate interests and the religious right that took shape in the 1960s and 1970s. And both cronyism and abuse of power are part of the movement conservative package. Reagan's lack of self-awareness was merely goofy. Reagan's lack of knowledge. Reagan's lack of mental and emotional engagement during his presidency. Reagan's lack of a human rights policy. Reagan's lack of respect for people with AIDS. Reagan's lack of compassion for the homeless. Reagan's lack of attention to foreign policy. Reagan's lack in leadership skill and wisdom, caused the deaths of 241 US Marines in Beirut, Lebanon. Reagan's legendary ignorance of the details of his own policies and his unwillingness to support anything firmly, other than a few very broad principles.
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I did not care for him for he had little knowledge of international politics.Instead of negotiating we would threaten other countries.That is no way to run a country.When he was president there was a recession because of reckless spending in the wrong places,and placed little significance on domestic issues.Carter was a better president.
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From everything that we can ascertain from the historical record, Reagan’s religious background, feelings, or beliefs had nothing to do with his political response to the AIDS epidemic. His appalling policies led to enormous setbacks for HIV/AIDS science and research, discrimination against people with AIDS, and the lack of any comprehensive outreach for prevention or education work, all adding to the already staggering amount of mounting deaths. His policies on AIDS were a product of indifference, disdain, self-imposed ignorance, and political capitulation to a staunchly reactionary and religious Republican constituency that was to reshape not only the party, but also the state of U.S. politics. Although AIDS was first reported in the medical and popular press in 1981, it was only in October 1987 that President Reagan publicly spoke about the epidemic. By the end of that year 59,572 AIDS cases had been reported and 27,909 of those women and men had died. How could this happen? How could Reagan not say anything? Do anything?
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He was obviously a bit 'off' mentally speaking - of course we did not know that it was the early symptoms of Alzheimers Disease - and in Europe we lived in fear that he was just 'nuts' enough to push the nuclear button and - in his own words - 'fight the Soviets to the last European' One wonders what his legacy would be like if he had not been afflicted with the disease - but all I know is I spent the Reagan years scared of a nuclear holocaust....and that overshadows the undoubted greatness he acheived in other areas...
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I won't expand on what is already here. I wrote my Congressman more than once in the 80s and he even said that Reagan was just hoping this AIDS thing would just fade away (as well as those living with it, I presume). I consider Reagan less than nothing now and I love that he is six feet under facing Hell.
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He did more to destroy American Society than anyone in the twentieth century. Homelessness, divisiveness, and intolerance. But we're slowly but surely undoing his mess. It will take time.
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I dislike many of his seemingly populist but ignorant statements. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" was a low point. I believe countless people have suffered from the undermining of the post-WW2 social institutions that helped give us the wealthiest middle class in the world. He defined a generation of American's. A generation who honestly believes that free markets will provide them social services better than governments can. I dislike so called "free market Reaganomics", which somehow involved raising the tax rate of lowest income bracket by 36%, and is only now showing signs of unpopularity as it becomes evident that its posturing is in a large way responsible for the 2008 economic crisis. I liked his hair.
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