I believe the most salient point in this little thread, is that the scope and import of the Reagan accomplishments are indisputable. He was, as one historian somewhat recently put it, "The last great gentleman president."
"Gentleman president?" That is an interesting quality to admire in a president. I would have to give that distinction to Carter, who was a gentleman and a moral man. But you know his reputation.
I give Reagan credit for finally raising taxes but by this time the poor man was too far into Alzheimer's disease; had he had all his facilities, I wonder what he would have thought had he lived to see the outcome of his policies?
"Also forgotten is Reagan's own embarrassing propensity to just make things up. Reagan was a dunce and a fabricator. One of his most famous assertions was, "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do," and he maintained, wrongly, that sulfur dioxide emitted from Mount St. Helens was greater than that emitted by cars over a 10-year period. (In one day, cars emit 40 times what Mount St. Helens released in a day even at its peak activity.) In 1985, Reagan praised the P.W. Botha's apartheid regime of South Africa for eliminating segregation, a blunder then-Press Secretary Larry Speakes had to correct a few days later." Ronald Reagan The Enduring Lies of Ronald Reagan Though the GOP continues to canonize the fortieth president, we can't forget his legacy as a liar and a foreign policy flop by Susan J, Douglas
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