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While Reagan was often criticized by liberals and conservatives alike for quoting John Kennedy, he once received a letter from son John Kennedy, Jr., praising Reagan’s use of his father’s words and urging him to keep on quoting President Kennedy.26 In 1980, nearly all the extended . . . Read more

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George and Barbara Bush were never invited to the Reagans’ private quarters during the eight years spent in the White House.104

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The week of the Gipper’s death, syndicated liberal cartoonist Ted Rall would show an absence of tact and an absence of a soul when he said, “I’m sure he’s turning crispy brown right about now.”9 A former conservative, Kevin Phillips, wrote in his book The Politics of Rich an . . . Read more

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In 1980, “radical chic conductor Leonard Bernstein said Reagan’s election would unleash the forces of fascism in America.

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The week of the Reagan funeral, makeshift shrines of flowers and such sprung up at Eureka College and in Dixon, Illinois, at the presidential library in Simi Valley, at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, at the Reagan home in Bel Air, and in towns and villages across the nation . . . Read more

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With a year left in the Gipper’s administration, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote that the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker scandal signaled “the end of the Age of Reagan” and his time in Washington was marked by “more disgraces than can fit in a nursery rhyme.

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drew more television viewers than did Ronald Reagan’s but in fact Reagan in 1981 had 42 million viewers while Obama in 2009 had 38 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.

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The economic growth that began in 1982 continued unbroken for a remarkable ninety-two months, during which time nearly thirty-five million new jobs were created.16

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