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esteem as an ex-president
could
influence the way scholars write
about him in the future, and also the
way the public begins to view that
pre~idency.
Ronald Reagan: "A president
who was brought to office by two
landslides in the ! 980s, who left
office
- . And when he
chose LO address the country on the energy cri is, he deliberately
picked the format of the fireside chat. In the 1980 campaign, even
Ronald Reagan quoted from FDR to such an extent in his acceptance
addre. s that the New York Times titled its
- ... They
cheered every time he had a good
line ... They didn ·t care what he said.
They were just happy to be there with
Ronald Reagan." Even when the press
reported it, "it didn't make any differ
ence at all."
"What kind of reporting does make
a difference
- likenesses of
Presidents beginning ith John Quincy Adams through Ronald
Reagan. All are original prints or produced from original nega
tives. Included are tintypes, daguerreotypes, albumen prints,
gelatin silver prints and chromogenic development prints
- U.S. Inter
vention in the Dominican Republic";
Ronald W. Fletcher, "Military
Reform: The Congressional Connec
tion"; Kathleen Hulser, "Colorful
Landscapes: Billboards and the
Debates over American Public Space,
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1900-1965"; Jonathan A. Lee
- Winston Churchill (left).
Billie Shaddix (Ford) aid of the pic
ture below: "This photograph I
love. Everyone marching to their
own drummer."
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"Always together"
Mary Anne
Fackelman-Minor said of Ronald
and Nancy Reagan (left). Michael
Geissinger (above
- Jimmy Carter residential
Center in Atlanta, the number of presidenti libraries in the
U.S. has grown to eight. Plan are already underway for a
Ronald Reagan Library at Stanford University in California,
and although discussio of a Richard Nixon Library
- . Ronald Reagan Library. Lyndon B. Johnson Library
The LBJ Library is one of ten prcsidcn1ial libmrie.~ admini,1t·rcd by 1hc i'-a1ional Ard1ives and
Record., Ad111inis1
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i,>11.
- Kennedy won the Democratic nomination over
Stuart Symington. Hubert Humphrey. and Lyndon Johnson,
Strauss said In 1976,Jimmy Carter won it over Sen. Henry Jack
son. Morris Udall. and Humphrey. ln 19 O. Ronald Reagan beat
out G rge Bush and Sens. Howard
- he preferred briefs or boxer
shorts. Ronald Reagan was emphati
cally a man of Hollywood: Shribman
noted that one biography of him is
aptly titled President Reagan: The
Role of a Lifetime.
Noting chat the campaign com
petition between George W. Bush
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Thomas admires him further for
"doing the most u eful work of any liv
ing ex-president."
Ronald Reagan: "There was a
Reagan revolution,"
Ms. Thomas
affirmed, ··and it continues today."
She applauded Reagan for contributing
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significantly to the dO
- and the White Hous will
be adorned with a downright
rn ron." Liz drew the curtain
of harity across that one, say
ing ') won't even comment on
that."
Liz admir s the way Ronald
Reagan used humor to deflect
criticism of his administra
tion. His self-deprecation
- of anything: they
are results. Nobody reflects that better than Ronald Reagan.
He is not the cause at all of the country being conservative.
His presidency is the result of a conservatising trend that
began when he was still a liberal Democrat and head of one
- in Austin condemned the civil rights portion of Harry
Truman ·s Fair Deal as a farce and a sham, an effort, he
said. to set up a police state in the guise of history.
But if Ronald Reagan, who voted four times for Frank
lin Roosevelt, could change his mind
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chose Jimmy Carter.
He was
highly moral, conscientious, patri
otic, hard workina, and nol a
Washington
insider.
"But,'"
Shields observed, "h se med to
change h.is mind a lot. So in I 980
along came Ronald Reagan, who
had not changed his mind since
1964
- in the
White House, the answer was, "I
learned never to open my mouth
around you."
In a serious vein Th mas flatly
denied the stories that Ronald Reagan
was slipping mentaUy near Lheend of
hj tenure. Hi managerial ty]e may
have convinced observer. that he wa
- . The
turning point came on Septem
ber 26, 1986, when President
Reagan against the unanimous
ad ice of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. decided to send the Af
ghans what they needed mo t:
a weapon that could deal with
the potent Soviet armed, and ar
mored, Hind
- . Johnson was awarclcc.Jthe nation's highe l civilian awarc.J,the Presidential Medal
of Freet.lorn. [n 1988, President Ronald Reagan presented her with the Congressional Gol ! M clal.
There will be a giant birthday card in the Great Hall for you to sign
- consequenc
was the climax
of ew Deal-style liberalism which
gav way to a grO\ ing c nservative
tide that would c met fruition under
Ronald Reagan in th I 80s. Another
was the breakdO\ n of the Cold War
con ·ensus, with the emergence of dis
sent ov r Vi tnam
- for a delighted audience on
what life in the White House during
their respective fathers' administra
tions was like. Two---Luci Baines
Johnson and S"Usan Ford Bales
were teenagers at the time. Maureen
Reagan was older--40-but
she said
she learned
- . And the end ol the Reagan era came on
Di::cenibcr-+.I 986. on the o -ed pag • of the Nl'w York T111u·.1.
~hen a rc,pccted eJnor of a foreign policy magazine declared.
"It is high time tor America to dcmon.,tratc awarcne ., of its
~trength in the world today
- of the conference was to formulate a bipar
tisan agenda setting forth the economic problems facing the
country, for the con ideration of the incoming Reagan
Administration. No effort was made to arrive at a con
sensus, but rather the conference served
- of Washington
College in Chestert wn, Maryland, is on October 16.
This light moment of President Reagan's, captured on mm, is among prize-winning photographs on uhibit in the Library through October
17, The exhibit contains memorable scenes pn!5erved
- plants and
shrubs.
The Center will be the benefi
ciary of a two-day program of activi
ties in Washington April 28 and 29
honoring Mrs. Johnson for her dedi
cation to promoting conservation
and beautification. President and
Mrs. Reagan and all living
- as President Reagan's White
House Chief of Staff, presented a
forceful case for "the Congress
returning to the status of a citizen leg
islature ... An aggregation of citizens
who are on temporary duty to repre
sent their neighbors."
Now a private attorney
- so expen ive.
What can be done on a national lev J?
Califano cit d two example . " ancy
Reagan was widely ridiculed for her
slogan ·Just Say o.' but it had a hell
or an in1pact;· he aid. "Drug use
peaked in 1979, with 25 million u ing. When Len Bia
- of this newsletter, of course,
that she received the Congressional
Gold Medal from President Reagan
(above). and testimonials from both
houses of Congress, for her efforts
to beautify the nation and particu
larly the capitol city.
She greeted most of official
- their annual meeting at the Library at the time of the opening of the World War II
exln'bition. Standing are: Ralph Bledsoe, Reagan Library; John Taylor, Nixon Library; Ben Zobrist, Truman Library;
Richard Norton Smith, Hoover Library; John Fawcett, Assistant
- as
well, he a1mounced, such as those
showing Liz with various president :
Clinton, Bush. Reagan, Ford, Johnson,
Nixon, Carter-and Lincoln.
Her birthday mail brought Liz
some new and welcome material for
her speaking engagements. She read to
the audience
- the audience.
debate," for while bureaucrats argue.
Iraqis suffer, even as relief supplies pile
up on the docks.
ful people we supported in the 1970s and
I 980s under Carter anu Reagan. lo drive
out the Soviets.''
"The third issue," stated HolbrookL
- also serves as chaimian of the President's
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.*
''Established by President Reagan and continued by Presidents Bush and
Clinton co encourage private-sector support of the arcs and humanities,
the committee
- CAB and the ICC by Senator Edward Ken
nedy. These proposals bore fruit under Carter and Reagan
for the airlin and the trucking industries and, to a degree,
for the railroads.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not .aying that the New Deal
legacy across the board
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national poll which indicated that 62% of the public believed
that "the anti-poverty programs of the 60s either had little
impact on the poor or made things worse for them." Most prom
inent of the skeptics, of course, is President Reagan. who
recently said
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resumed it when the lapse brought
unfavorable attention. Now it's a
tradition.
Placing the wreath sent by Presi
dent Reagan on President Johnson's
grave at the LBJ Ranch, Library
Director Harry Middleton recalled
for a group of visitors LBJ's plea
early
- O'Brien IO, OBC
Group. "We were in numerous
meetings with President Reagan.
In good times and bad, when it
was going well and when it wasn't,
he'd come in, give a little pep talk,
tell a funny story. He would say,
'Keep up the good work. I'm with
you. You
- . Bator as
serted. today held firmly by some in
Washington. is that glasnost and per
estroika would not have happened had
it not been for Reagan's def nse buildup
in the 1980s. What would Rostow make
of the notion Lhat Reagan·s policy forced
the Soviets
