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Reagan’s real legacy is the man himself
Any budget hotel down the road has more comfortable accommodations. Reagan, who with his wife was pilloried for having a plutocrat’s taste, in fact enjoyed a level of simplicity beyond what most vacationing Americans would accept. Continue reading
Capitalist for the Common Man
The scene was a low-rent Manhattan auditorium, circa 1978. A young Congressman from Buffalo with a raspy voice and rapid delivery was debating a liberal from central casting about the necessity of tax-cutting to stimulate economic growth and spread prosperity. Here, we thought, was something exciting: A politician who could speak about the benefits of capitalism for the average American. The crowd was mainly hostile, but then Jack Kemp never did confine his free-market evangelizing only to the believers. Continue reading
Reagan Defeats Specter
Yesterday, staring at polls that had him losing a Republican primary to his 2004 rival former Congressman Pat Toomey, Specter did just that. Stunning the political world in both Pennsylvania and Washington, Specter became a Democrat. There’s more to all of this that is perhaps not obvious to those outside Pennsylvania. Here’s a Reagan-Specter story never told before. Continue reading
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