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To: opalapril who wrote (5190)	10/31/2000 10:26:34 PM
From: Charlie Smith	Respond to of 5853

Cannot let this pass: "Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Haynes Johnson's book, Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years (1991, Doubleday), chronicles the U.S.'s fall from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation during the Reagan years..." The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Soviet Union capitulated within two years. End of story.

To: opalapril who wrote (5190)	12/2/2000 8:06:44 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

The Reagan Years: How Soon We Forget Real Corruption "Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Haynes Johnson's book, Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years (1991, Doubleday), chronicles the U.S.'s fall from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation during the Reagan years. " With Reagan, scandals occurred while he was President... ‘By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever.'(P. 184)." ***************************************************** Dear Opalapril, Thank you for reminding me about the corruption in Ronald Reagan's administration. I didn't live in the US when he was President but I always thought he was senile from the news reports that I read from abroad, and I wondered why others didn't question his physical condition. Maybe, one reason why we want to forget about past Presidential corruption and scandals is that we have to preserve our myths about the US. We have to believe in our Constitution and individual rights. It is imperative that we believe that The United States is a great but fair country. The myth is what keeps us together as a country.-Mephisto Here's an excerpt from an article by David K. Shipler: "The myths of our democracy are not delusions. They may be just part of the truth, or embellishments of an inner reality in our culture's creed. But coupled with our freedom to expose our flaws, the myths have power, because they celebrate the powerful ideas that government belongs to the people, that voting is a universal right, that all citizens are equal, that we are governed by the rule of law, that minority views are protected no matter how abhorrent to the majority. The myths have been highly effective in setting ideals and standards. Consequently, we need our myths in the same way a reader of poetry needs to adopt a "willing suspension of disbelief," in Coleridge's phrase. Our system of self-government cannot run on skepticism and contest alone; we also need to believe in it. And belief is what ambitious partisans may put at risk as they try to win instead of trying to learn who won. Excerpt from an article by David K. Shipler** entitled The Myth of Democracy in The Washington Post Sunday , December 3, 2000 ; Page B07 washingtonpost.com