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Originally Posted by korme
I thought Reagan was a terrible President. I am wrong, apparently.
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Reagan was a genuinely charismatic man who got most everybody moving in one direction. If you took away the policies and just thought about that for a moment, you would change your mind. Now, add in the policies and there is plenty of room for the age old "left vs right" bantering...but to unify the nation where the 2 or 3 presidents leading up to him had failed...it is pretty amazing what he accomplished. In the late 70's we really thought we were losing the "cold war" with the Soviets. We thought it was inevitable that we would have to have a nuclear showdown. In the 1980's, that all changed. And it changed because Ronald Reagan (and Thatcher to some extent) made it change. Very impressive stuff that got all Americans on board and all Europeans on board. Basically Ronald Reagan was the Chuck Norris of Foreign Policy.