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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (731)	10/26/1999 1:14:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 3246

Fermi made the crucial practical leap to nuclear fission, which allowed us to beat the Nazis, stop the Japanese, and envision nuclear fuel as a power source. I am not sure how far his security breaches went, but I consider his role in the development of atomic physics as a practical matter to be overriding.....

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (731)	10/26/1999 1:45:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 3246

Continuing with my precis of the Morris biography: Reagan achieved his welfare reform during his second term as governor, with some skirmishing with the White House, which was planning to unveil its own income support plan. For coordinating his activities with the White House to minimize embarrassment, Reagan was rewarded with Special Envoy status, and visited Taiwan and many European countries on behalf of Nixon, to reassure allies about Nixon's intentions in his initiative to China and on the ABM Treaty. However, Reagan began planning a serious challenge not too long into Ford's tenure as President. He was convinced that Ford did not have the necessary stature, and that the time was ripe for the conservative counter revolution that had begun at least with Goldwater's candidacy. Although he eventually lost, it was narrow, and mainly because Ford used the power of the presidency to keep key people in line. On the night of the nomination, Reagan was invited onstage, and made a speech that overshadowed the candidate. Of course, Carter won, and the presidency shrank. As Carter let things drift, Reagan planned a surprising resurgence, given his age, and the number of challengers for the nomination. But he hammered home a message that people were receptive to, about the destiny of America, and the values that had made it great, and not only did he pick up the nomination, but he won the presidency in a landslide against two contenders. Reagan made enormous headway in selling his program to Congress, although he was more successful at getting tax cuts and defense increases than at trimming the domestic budget. As he worked on this budget package, a recession loomed, one that was deepened by Paul Volcker's intention to wring inflation out of the economy. Additionally, the Soviets continued to gain ground in Central America, and to encourage neutralist sentiment in Europe. Dealing with all of this was complicated by the fact that he had been shot early in his first term, and had a lengthy recuperation. Nevertheless, the country pulled out of the recession into a stunning expansion; the Soviets were thwarted in both the Third World and Europe; and as the election for the second term approached, Reagan was a strong, resolute, and successful leader....

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (731)	10/26/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3246

THE TENTATIVE TOP 50: 1. Winston Churchill 2. Franklin Roosevelt 3. Dwight Eisenhower 4. Chester Nimitz 5. Douglas MacArthur 6. William Halsey 7. George Marshall 8. Harry Truman 9. Ronald Reagan 10. Margaret Thatcher 11. Lech Walesa 12. John Paul II 13. Mikhail Gorbachev 14. Boris Yeltsin 15. Alexander Solzhenitsyn 16. Andrei Sakharov 17. Vaclav Havel 18. Konrad Adenauer 19. Charles DeGaulle 20. Helmut Kohl 21. George Bush 22. John XXIII 23. Mohandas Gandhi 24. Martin Luther King 25. Kemal Ataturk 26. George Orwell 27. Fred Hayek 28. Milton Friedman 29. Henry Ford 30. The Wright Brothers (in tandem) 31. Marconi/Tesla (acknowledging the dispute) 32. Vladimir Zworkin/Philo Farnsworth (both contributed crucially to television) 33. George Stibitz (more or less the father of the computer) 34. Marie and Pierre Curie (in tandem) 35. Albert Einstein 36. Niels Bohr 37. Werner Heisenberg 38. Erwin Schroedinger 39. Enrico Fermi 40. Watson & Crick (in tandem) 41. Bardeen/Shockley/Brattain (the transistor) 42. Hoff/Mazor/Faggin (the microprocessor) 43. Elkjman/Hopkins (vitamins) 44. Paul Erlich (chemotherapy) 45. Alexander Fleming (penicillin) 46. Gerhard Domagk (sulfa drugs) 47. Salk/Sabin (polio vaccine) 48. Watson & Crick (DNA model) 49. D.W. Griffith 50. Charles Chaplin