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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (3109)6/15/2004 9:15:02 PM
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Reagan's Teflon legacy

University of Kentucky political science professor Horace Bartilow recalls several points of Reagan's presidency that have been glossed over in his death.

He cites the Iran-Contra Affair where the United States traded arms for hostages; the failed war on drugs and crime that today is proving lucrative for terrorists looking for ways to finance their terrorist acts; and the economic plan that increased deficits phenomenally and shrunk the middle class. Bartilow also points to this period of time as when the industrialization of America's prison system began. To serve their purpose, newly built prisons needed prisoners, human commodities made possible from the wars on drugs and crime.

. . . In his 1987 book "And the Band Played On," late journalist Randy Shilts chronicles the early years of the AIDS pandemic, making the case that much damage was caused by the Reagan administration's refusal to acknowledge the gravity of the virus.

Though AIDS was first documented in the United States as early as 1980, Reagan did not acknowledge the disease in a major speech until 1987. And even then, Shilts writes that "the president's speech made no mention of the word 'gay.' '' The book also documents the AIDS-related death toll at that time at 20,489 Americans.

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