Tag: President Reagan

Remember When We Had A Real President?

 

I do. 

“How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on earth?… we cannot, must not, and will not turn back. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We’re Americans.”
— Ronald Reagan


When I am feeling on the cusp of despondency at the current set of circumstances, so tawdry that they defy description, and I happen upon this photograph and quotation, remembrances well up in me of a President who loved his country and proclaimed that love with every utterance and every action. So I thought I would share it and hope it brings a smile, albeit of the bittersweet variety, to you as it did for me.

With contentious midterm elections coming up fast, Annika sits down with one of the best-known commentators and participants in the American political economy over the past four decades: Larry Kudlow.

Director Kudlow has had a long and storied career; in addition to great success both on Wall Street and as a political commentator, he served in the Ronald Reagan administration in 1981, and as the Director of the National Economic Council under President Trump. He currently hosts the popular Larry Kudlow Show.

This week on “The Learning Curve,” co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Charles Moore, a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and the authorized, three-volume biographer of Lady Margaret Thatcher. Lord Moore explains why Lady Thatcher is considered the most important female political figure of the 20th century, and reviews the challenges she faced at home and abroad, from trade union strikes to high inflation rates and political discord. They talk about Prime Minister Thatcher partnering with American President Ronald Reagan and standing in solidarity with Poland’s Lech Walesa to face down Soviet communism. Lord Moore describes her middle-class background and a leadership style that led to her 12-year tenure as prime minister in the male-dominated arena of British politics (including nearly 700 sessions of the world-renowned Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons). They also discuss “Thatcherism,” her foundational economic principles and their applicability to other domestic policy topics, as well as lessons for today’s world. The interview concludes with Lord Moore reading from his biography of Lady Thatcher.

Stories of the Week: Attorneys general from 14 states are suing the Biden administration over the Department of Justice’s calls to monitor parental protests at school board meetings. In Alabama, a group is seeking to address the teacher shortage by suspending the requirement to pass a Praxis content mastery exam.

Walter Mondale, Proudly Progressive Democrat, dies at 93

 

Walter Frederick “Fritz” MondaleVice President Mondale, former senator from Minnesota and vice president to Jimmy Carter, has died at the fine old age of 93. He was a proud progressive from Minnesota who got his start in politics at age 20 by successfully getting out the vote in a Republican majority district for Hubert Humphrey’s 1948 Senate run. Mondale, on graduating college, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1951, but was not deployed to Korea. On completing his enlistment, Mondale used the G.I. Bill to attend law school, during which time he married Joan Adams, his one and only love for the rest of their lives together, until she died at age 83.

In 1976, Walter Mondale helped balance the Democrats’ presidential ticket with the nuclear engineer Navy officer and peanut farming Southern governor, Jimmy Carter. Mondale helped deliver Minnesota for the Democrats in 1980, 46.50% to Reagan’s 42.56% and Independent John Anderson’s 8.53%. He had no political reach beyond his home state, however, as the electoral college map shows:

electoral college map 1980

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My wife has the Time magazine from May 1986 when Horowitz went to Moscow. It has an article about European opposition to the strike on Libya. Thatcher was the only European leader who supported him. It is accompanied by signs saying that Reagan is the Real Mad Man and for Britain to leave NATO. We […]

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From the attractive book jacket, with the raised lettering, to the rave reviews on the back, and to the splendid prose between the covers, Bret Baier’s latest offering, which deals with Ronald Reagan and The Fall of The Soviet Union, is well worth the placing of it among your most cherished volumes. The prologue sets […]

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