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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46429)	6/9/2004 10:59:59 AM
From: malibuca	Respond to of 50167

Reagan’s legacy I voted for Carter against Reagan in 1980 but voted for Reagan against Mondale in 1984. His greatest achievement – no mean feat – was that under his leadership he took a country that was demoralized, unsure of itself, and plagued with self-doubt and transformed it by sheer force of personality and unyielding faith in this country and its basic decency. Anyone who was an adult living in the US at that time would know what I am saying. He earned my voted in 1984 because of that accomplishment. The other thing that has profoundly affected me is that devotion, dignity and love that Nancy Reagan has shown through this entire ordeal. It is a testament to the relationship that they enjoyed. All of the longer term legacies that have been attributed to Reagan will need the test of time for their significance to be realized. A measure of the achievements and legacy of a leader in historical terms cannot be realized for several decades. It took the best part of 40 years before Harry Truman was given recognition as a very successful president. When he left office he was viewed as mediocre president. I give no weight to the host of this thread’s fawning praise of Reagan just as I give no credence to the historians who view Reagan's presidency as a failure or a mediocre success.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46429)	6/9/2004 11:18:47 AM
From: malibuca	Respond to of 50167

We shall definite visit this forecast in a ten years time Given your past history of revisiting forecasts, we can be sure of one thing: We will revist the forecast ONLY if it turns out that you are right. If you are not, this forecast like many others that you have made will end up in the dustbin of SI history. You have been consistently wrong on so many subjects that one cannot keep count. You have been studiously silent when it comes to your many wrong calls on the market. Before the invasion of Iraq, you said that our troops would be garlanded by the Iraqi people on arrival and met with flowers – a prediction that you choose to forget. The one good thing is that ever since you switched your professed area of expertise from the markets to geopolitics and the war on terrorism, the potential for others to get hurt by your outlandish forecasts is a whole lot less.