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To: Soul Seeker

>>Reagan wasn't the "Great Communicator" in '87 and '88.During Iran Contra and other problems. Conservatives have been re-writing history and it's time that ended.
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During Iran Contra, threatened with impeachment, President Reagan saved his own bacon with a direct address to the American people. And it worked.

And that's the way it was.


68 posted on 03/10/2006 9:23:02 PM PST by SerpentDove (The internet is big. "Oprah" big.)
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To: SerpentDove
No, he did not!

And the revisionist history, pouted here, about Reagan, is not only applauding, but contemptible.

The fact is, Reagan's approval ratings were LOWER

182 posted on 03/10/2006 11:06:57 PM PST by nopardons
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