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My favorite Reagan omission (different from a lie) is in his autobiography is when he devoted about three sentences to his marriage to Jane Wyman.
It pretty much goes, "I also married actress Jane Wyman. We had three kids and later parted ways." Not joking. He does not go any more detail, it's literally like two or three sentences.
Never mind that they were married for eight years and that he originally had an affair with Nancy during that time. Oh, he mentions his courtship of Nancy in detail, but leaves out the fact that it was adulterous.
I went to the second linked website and could not find who authored the article on the site nor who produced the site. It also didn't provide a bibliography showing sources for the quotes.
I don't think you read all the way down the page. You could probably google those quotes and check them out if you want.
Everyone could be doing something other than posting on CD. I was responding to a challenge, something I like to do. As the kids say, "got a problem with that?"
There has been a strange cult-of-personality with R. Reagan. Those who worship him as some kind of Greek goddess, more often than not, made a lot of money off of him, maybe unconscious of the fact, which comes off as arrogant. You see this quite a bit with the media types peddling "his image".
He expanded government after declaring government was baaaad...
Did he?
"While the closing of the loopholes was quickly put into place, Congress never enacted any of the spending cuts. Reagan came to regret his support for TEFRA, and years later he wrote: “The Democrats reneged on their pledge [to cut spending] and we never got those cuts.”
"While the closing of the loopholes was quickly put into place, Congress never enacted any of the spending cuts. Reagan came to regret his support for TEFRA, and years later he wrote: “The Democrats reneged on their pledge [to cut spending] and we never got those cuts.”
I don't think you read all the way down the page. You could probably google those quotes and check them out if you want.
Ronald Wilson Reagan: The Great Communicator? (http://www.misterafj.com/gwb/Reagan-Speak.htm - broken link)
Below is what is at the bottom of the above linked article. It does not list the author of the piece nor his/her sources for the quotes.
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What is your problem with the link? Rebut those stories if you want.
The first link was to an ultra-feminist giving her opinion which is obviously a hatred of Reagan and Republicans in general. The second link makes allegations of quotes made by Reagan and how he/she felt these quotes were lies without providing any sort of proof links or sources. It doesn't even say who wrote the article so the entire article is in question.
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