[PeteFromMontana]

"One of the most contentious issues about Reagan is how much credit we should give him for ending the Cold War," Matusow said. "I hope this lecture will be an occasion for the audience to take another look at the history of the Cold War. Now that it is over, it might look somewhat different."

___________________________ contentious??? Since when? History being re-written here?

[maestro]

"John F. Kennedy and the Cold War: the View 40 Years Later,"

Montana?

This is 'serious' stuff.

:-(

[Always Right]

"One of the most contentious issues about Reagan is how much credit we should give him for ending the Cold War," Matusow said. "I hope this lecture will be an occasion for the audience to take another look at the history of the Cold War. Now that it is over, it might look somewhat different

Oh darn, I knew the Dems would steal my idea. It was when Mike Dukakis got in the tank that the Soviet Union got scared and dismantled....

[roadcat]

Was John F. Kennedy really a great president?

Absolutely not! Only 2-1/2 years in office, and not much accomplished of note. Except maybe his pledge to land a man on the Moon in a decade. That's about all he'll be remembered for, a hundred years from now. This guy almost ended up getting us all killed due to bumbling around in Cuba (Bay-of-Pigs etc.)

President Ronald Reagan - now that's a really great president with many noteworthy accomplishments on behalf of our nation.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Was John F. Kennedy really a great president?

How can you call someone who spent most of his time chasing skirts a great president? I mean what did JFK actually achieve policy-wise besides the tax cuts?

[Reagan Man]

Prior to the Reagan Presidency, the Cold War was fought mostly through appeasement and the diplomatic efforts of detente. The strong leadership of PresReagan finally ended the Cold War. There's no doubt about it. Reagan deserves most of the credit for closing the books on the USSR and European communism.

If Allen Matusow is going to be honest, he will report that the legacy of JFK, is an incomplete legacy, at best. In historical context, JFK is a martyr to the liberal Democratic establishment. JFK`s death gave us LBJ, who gave us the Great Society, the VietNam War, the War on Poverty, higher taxes and bigger governemnt, forced equality, wealth transer and social engineering.

I'll take Reagan over JKF or LBJ any time!

[cubreporter]

Both lectures are free and open to the public.


Guess he can't get people to pay for dribble.

[RanchoStash]

What do you expect from Univ. of Montana? Cats rule - Griz drool!

[fire_eye]

I am sure that the learned and esteemed Perfesser, after a thorough and objective evaluation of the evidence, will conclude that after making an idiot of himself and destroying our deterrent credibility with the Soviets by failing to kick Castro's Communist regime out of our hemisphere, Kennedy then intrepidly and courageously sent our troops into a Southeast Asian cesspool to die in droves trying to stop Communism over there, since we all know that the Commies were going to land in San Fagdisco (hmmmm.........) within weeks if Vietnam fell.

Additionally, I'm sure that he will finally set the record straight and point out that Kennedy had made himself so unpopular by the end of 1963 that the Demonrats were about to lose the White House at the next election barring some sort of miracle (HMMMMMM......), and that the only reason he's now such a sainted martyr is that some gang of idiots didn't have enough sense to wait for him to self-destruct instead of whacking him out.

(Anyone want to buy some real estate in South Florida?)