by jpitney | Jun 8, 2022 | Democracy, Reagan
Forty years ago today, President Reagan spoke to the British Parliament: No, democracy is not a fragile flower. Still it needs cultivating. If the rest of this century is to witness the gradual growth of freedom and democratic ideals, we must take actions to assist...
by jpitney | Jan 28, 2022 | Reagan, Science, Space
On this date in 1986, the Challenger disaster took place. President Reagan addressed the nation: Ladies and gentlemen, I’d planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans....
by jpitney | Jun 14, 2021 | China, Reagan
H.R. McMaster at National Review: President Ronald Reagan’s speech in June 1987, delivered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, is immortalized because of the exhortation, “Mr. Gobachev, tear down this wall.” Those words and that speech are often credited with...
by jpitney | May 29, 2021 | Claremont McKenna College, Dreier, Reagan
by jpitney | Dec 3, 2019 | Civility, Congress, Reagan, Social Security
At LegBranch,com, Philip A. Wallach recalls the “Gang of Nine” negotiations that led to the rescue of Social Security in the early 1980s. Nine was a small enough number to allow absolute secrecy in negotiations, as well as an intimate setting, in the home...
