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What time period are you referring to in your first sentence? Be a bit more specific please. I never said that times were great in the years before Reagan-the years after Vietnam were very hard on the economy of this country-I remember Ford's dumb WIN button- I remember the long gas lines- I also remember the economy tanking after Reagans 'Voodoo Economics' (a term coined by Bush Sr. who questioned the sanity of Regan's economic plan during the GOP primaries-) I am not foolish enough to try to paint a rosy picture when history shows black clouds- and its the Reagan fanatics who are revising history to try to make their cowboy guru one of the heads on Rushmore, and not admitting that Reagan's economic 'boom' was nothing more than smoke and mirrors that lead to massive spending that hasn't stopped up to today- he was a bad president as was/is every one that has followed him-
Meh, typical anti-Reagan vitriol.
The reason the 1980s economic boom stands out is due to the fact that during the 14 year period before it started, the economy was wholly unstable. We had frequent spurts of growth, followed by stagnation and recession. Between 1969 and 1982, we had 5 recessions, two of which claimed the title of worst since the Great Depression. Yet, we had 17 years of almost continuous economic growth from 1983-2001, save for one brief and mild recession in 1991.
So, why would anyone pine for the pre-Reagan years with 5 recession in 14 years, as opposed to 1 recession in 17 years?
I also remember at the same time he was claiming Americans were better off now than they were four years prior farmers were hanging themselves in their barns, I was also meeting increasing numbers of people who were losing their jobs all across the board.
I also remember at the same time he was claiming Americans were better off now than they were four years prior farmers were hanging themselves in their barns, I was also meeting increasing numbers of people who were losing their jobs all across the board.
These quotes may have been spoken by him, but they were written by someone else! Come on folks, these aren't his words. They are words that were put together by faceless, nameless, anonymous speechwriters.
Only the words spoken away from speeches are their true words (i.e. press conferences, public engagements, on camera interviews).
That's completely idiotic - greatest president ever... Ha
These quotes may have been spoken by him, but they were written by someone else! Come on folks, these aren't his words. They are words that were put together by faceless, nameless, anonymous speechwriters.
Only the words spoken away from speeches are their true words (i.e. press conferences, public engagements, on camera interviews).
That's completely idiotic - greatest president ever... Ha
Another completely ignorant post.
So all of his speeches were written by nameless faceless other people.
What about when he was president of the SAG? How about when he had to testify before House on Un-America Activities Committee? How about when he was a sports broadcaster? Governor? President? How about the as radio commentator? How about the 600 legal pads that were found after his death containing words written by him about policies that he put in place?
Hopefully you're just playing the dumbest person alive today for a school play or something.
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Skinner along with Annelise Anderson and Martin Anderson undertook an analysis of the radio manuscripts, which yielded 1,027 commentaries. Six hundred and seventy three of the radio commentaries were written in Reagan's hand. He wrote another nine that were not, as far as we know, broadcast.
Some of the remaining 354 commentaries were written by Reagan, but his handwritten draft has not been found in the archives, is lost, or was discarded - and thus they are not attributed to Reagan. The rest were written by his staff, primarily Peter Hannaford, and edited by Reagan. A database of the radio commentaries developed by Annelise Anderson is produced here as an Appendix.
Of the commentaries we know he wrote, almost one-third were on foreign policy or national defense, although those that compared socialist and capitalist economies also had domestic implications.
More than two-thirds of the commentaries were explicitly on domestic issues, most often the economy - inflation, taxing and spending, unemployment, monetary policy, and excessive regulation. Energy and the environment were also frequent topics. Reagan also wrote about social security, Medicare and national health insurance, welfare, and education.
I'm 58 so I have been around for awhile and have seen much, do you have anything intelligent to ask?
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