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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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From: geode002/19/2009 8:02:40 PM
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Ronnie, the myth that needs stomping:

"There's no note for visitors about Reagan accumulating more debt in real dollars than all the presidents who came before him combined, or about the fact that the federal payroll increased from 1981 to 1989. Amazingly, there is also no mention anywhere of the Iran-Contra affair, the scandal that almost toppled his presidency. (The executive director, Duke Blackwood, told an interviewer in 2007 that some Iran-Contra material was taken out during some renovations and that "at some point in time, we hope to bring it back. But again, that's the fluidity of a museum. You can't have the same thing, you know, for ten, fifteen, twenty years.") The few nods to "balance" are so obscure they surely sail right over the heads of most casual visitors."

----Tear Down This Myth: How Reagan's Legacy Haunts Our Future by Will Bunch.
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