by jpitney | Sep 25, 2022 | Reagan, Uncategorized
Justin Wm. Moyer at WP: Channy Laux, 60, is the granddaughter of a refugee from communist China who fled to Cambodia. She was 13 when the communist Khmer Rouge, which would eventually kill almost 2 million people, took over Cambodia in 1975. Her father and brother...
by jpitney | Mar 21, 2022 | Russia, Ukraine
President Reagan’s 1987 Captive Nations proclamation: For nearly three decades Captive Nations Week has symbolized the American people’s solidarity with all throughout the world who courageously seek freedom and independence from Soviet domination. During...
by jpitney | Nov 10, 2020 | Civility, Presidency
The letter from @GeorgeHWBush to @billclinton showed true leadership. Pres. Reagan wrote a personal letter to Pres Bush for their transition pic.twitter.com/Kfi6AxprlS — Bush Library (@Bush41Library) October 21, 2016
by jpitney | Aug 11, 2020 | Civil Rights
Farhat Popal and Christopher Walsh at the George W. Bush Presidential Center: Attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders grew so bad in the early days of the coronavirus that the Asian Pacific Policy Planning Council launched a website to track them. In...