Reagan

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• 1/22/20
  

  The History of Presidential Misconduct Beyond Watergate and Iran-Contra

  by HNN Staff

  At the AHA, James Banner, Kathryn Olmstead, Kevin Kruse, and Jeremi Suri discussed how they revived a long forgotten report on presidential misconduct. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/6/20
  

  Iran Air Flight 655: Iran’s president invokes 1988 tragedy many Americans have forgotten

  On Monday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani invoked history right back in response to Trump’s threat.

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• SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal
  11/6/19
  

  Berlin Didn’t Want a Reagan Statue—but It’s Getting One Anyway

  Seven-foot replica of former president to be inaugurated at U.S. Embassy, overlooking site of Berlin Wall

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• 11/10/19
  

  It’s Been 32 Years since the Conclusion of the INF Treaty Yet Arms Control Is Still Vital

  by Stephan Kieninger

  It is imperative to avoid a situation where we might have no arms control and no mutual verification at all. Against the backdrop of the Trump Administration’s loathing of arms control, it will be up to the European NATO allies to conceptualize a new arms-control framework for the post-INF world.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 4, 2019
  

  Why Donald Trump is just following in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps on race

  by Kyle Longley

  He might be more unvarnished, but Reagan was just as racist.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  August 5, 2019
  

  The Most Dangerous American Idea

  No belief in the history of the United States has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/31/19
  

  Historian Tim Naftali Discusses Recording Of Reagan's Racist Comments Made To Nixon

  NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with historian Tim Naftali about his article in The Atlantic describing a tape President Nixon had of then-Gov. Ronald Reagan making racist remarks.

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• SOURCE: AP
  5/27/19
  

  Edmund Morris, known for his biography of Reagan, dies at 78

  Morris was a polished prose stylist whose career took off with the success of his first book, “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. But what cemented his legacy was “Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/19/19
  

  Trump says he’s an antiabortion champion like Reagan. History says: Not quite.

  Reagan’s legacy on abortion is far more complicated, and antiabortion advocates have long considered his actions a disappointment.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/5/19
  

  Nixon and Reagan tried closing the border to pressure Mexico – here’s what happened

  by Aileen Teague

  If Trump ever follows through on his threat and puts up a closed sign at the southern border, it wouldn’t be the first time. Twice in the last half-century the U.S. has tried to use the border to force Mexico to bend to America’s will.

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• 12/15/2018
  

  Now that the Bush Funeral Is Over with, We Need to Talk Honestly About the End of the Cold War

  by Tarik Cyril Amar

  And what we got wrong.

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• SOURCE: Pew Research Center
  7-11-18
  

  Obama Tops Public’s List of Best President in Their Lifetime, Followed by Clinton, Reagan

  Reagan is top choice among Boomers, Silent Generation.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5-18-18
  

  Is Trump the Second Coming of Reagan?

  Fox News’s Bret Baier wants you to think he just might be.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-12-18
  

  The Russian ‘fake news’ campaign that damaged the United States — in the 1980s

  by Alexander Poster

  2016 wasn't the first time that Russia used fake news as a weapon against the United States.

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• 1/14/18
  

  The Phony Claim that Lower Taxes Will Generate Higher Revenues Is Based on this Myth

  by David L. O'Connor

  It’s a myth that’s been driving GOP tax policy for a generation.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-26-17
  

  Incomes Grew After Past Tax Cuts Like Reagan's, but Guess Whose

  Reagan’s tax cuts helped the richest Americans, those in the highest 1 percent of the income distribution.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-5-17
  

  Tax Plan Aims to Slay a Reagan Target: The Government Beast

  By denying deductions for state and local taxes, the Republicans seek to force high-tax states run by Democrats to capitulate.

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  11-30-17
  

  The Damage Trump Has Done

  by Sean Wilentz

  He has conquered the party of Reagan and is fulfilling a dream of the hard right – the demolition of government.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  10-24-17
  

  Trump Is the New ________

  by Zachary Jonathan Jacobson

  Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.

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• 10-1-17
  

  What Do Nixon, Reagan and Trump Have in Common?

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  All three came to power after their campaigns resorted to reprehensible tactics.