by jpitney | Mar 16, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Reagan, Uncategorized
President Reagan, February 24, 1982: Though born in war, the Voice of America continued in peace and has made enormous contributions. Today as we witness new forms of inhumanity threatening peace and freedom in the world, the Voice of America can perform an even more...
by jpitney | Mar 10, 2025 | Reagan, Trade
Naftali Bendavid at WP: Reagan, during his presidency, did not hide his scorn for those who equated tariffs with patriotism. “Today, protectionism is being used by some American politicians as a cheap form of nationalism,” Reagan said in a 1988 radio address. He...
by jpitney | Mar 5, 2025 | Reagan, Trade
President Reagan, Radio Address to the Nation on International Free Trade November 20, 1982 When governments get too involved in trade, economic costs increase and political disputes multiply. Peace is threatened. In the 1930’s, the world experienced an...
by jpitney | Feb 25, 2025 | Reagan, Russia
The President’s News Conference January 29, 1981 Now, as long as they do that and as long as they, at the same time, have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves...
by jpitney | Feb 19, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Reagan, Russia
Ronald Reagan, 1983: It was C. S. Lewis who, in his unforgettable “Screwtape Letters,” wrote: “The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and...
by jpitney | Dec 31, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Reagan
Jill Lawrence at The Bulwark: “Bipartisan work is as basic as the American covenant, E pluribus unum, out of many, one,” Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, said recently on NBC’s Meet the Press. In 2022, he ran a memorable campaign ad about his unlikely work...
