To: Zoltan! who wrote (37472 ) 3/9/1999 8:06:00 PM From: Daniel Schuh Read Replies (3) | Respond to
Donald Regan was Treasury Secretary for 4 years, and he wasn't fired from that job, Zoltan!. So he ran afoul of Nancy and her astrologer, that doesn't exactly make him incompetent. The economic course of the administration was set in the first four years, I assume that's what most would consider Reagan's main glory. What does Regan have to say about that? As far as the President himself is concerned, Mr. Regan tends to reinforce views already familiar from press stories and others' memoirs. It's a view of President Reagan as a genial, optimistic man unconcerned with details of policy - a President who never once told his Secretary of the Treasury ''what he believed or what he wanted to accomplish in the field of economics.'' This President is a trained actor, obediently taking direction from Mr. Deaver, who ''conceived every Presidential appearance in terms of camera angles''; a man who would never suspect that someone might ''give him incorrect information,'' a man so diffident that he does not even budge from his desk when a fire starts in his office. ( a different review, acid tongued Michiko Kakutani, NYT 5/9/88)Reagan is already regarded by historians as the great post WWII president. Time mag had a special on it. Ronald Reagan, Teddy and Franklin were ranked as the top of the crop for the 20th century.
