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To: Druss who wrote (484)	10/19/1999 1:40:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

>>But Reagan, he was glitz and Hollywood, the substance underneath was knee jerk anticommunist, exploitation of our natural resources (no point in letting our children get them I guess,), huge deficits, and tax breaks for the wealthy. There you go again. Your baby talk isn't at all convincing - if that is your aim. The tax breaks were for everyone but society's takers - their architect just won the Nobel. Reagan ended the Cold War and restored the economy to full vigor - things unimaginable and unobtainable for other less determined and skillful presidents - his predecessors. btw, FDR's deficits were much much higher in real terms and as a % of the economy. FDR is still the all-time champ in that area. >>Richard Nixon was one of the great acheivers of our recent presidents. There is scant evidence of that, aside from the Supreme Court. >>I also admire Gerald Ford An abomination as the only unelected President. Ford should never have gotten the nomination in 1976 - Reagan was the clear choice of primary voters, Ford only won through backroom deals. That elected the 4-year disaster known as "James" Carter, who proceeded to lay ruin to the economy and destroy US credibility throughout the world. What a feckless man Ford was. And is.

To: Druss who wrote (484)	10/19/1999 7:59:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

OK, maybe not ritualistic. If he was Hollywood, it worked. W.B. Yeats tells us that everyone ought to make a mask for himself, and wear it, and become what the mask represents. Reagan put on the mask of Western hero, lived the part, and became the Western hero. He proved that when he was shot outside a Washington hotel, he joked with his wife and doctors who were working to save his life. No matter what blunders Reagan may have had in office, he became the most popular public man in half a century.