Posted on 06/26/2014 8:57:13 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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They only one I missed was the last one. I had no idea on that.
Okay, I only missed the ATC question (I said 24) and the date of the marriage to Nancy Davis (I said 1956). I admit I got lucky with the educate guess of T-10.
OK not bad, next week I will post ‘moderate’ Reagan quiz, a bit more challenging hopefully
In the “Answers” section, question 15 is T-10, but that was choice b, not a.
I got 11 correct and feel okay about that. Some of the questions were pretty tough.
Thank you MP, corrected
I only got 11. I got all the stuff related to his presidency, but wasn’t up to speed on some of the early years stuff.
No problem. I liked the quiz, thanks.
Very intuitive of you
I just guessed T-2 and was wrong when I first saw it.
This was thrown in so everybody would have to guess at least one...
Good logic. I will admit I got totally lucky on when he married Nancy question. I had to think about how old Michael is to come up with that one.
I got all except the last one—my guess was T-2.
They forgot one:
When did Reagan cover up a disaster like Benghazi?
In 1983 debacle, Reagan escaped the blame game
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The Reagan administration immediately attempted to deflect blame for the attack with a deluge of false statements and misrepresentations. In a televised speech four days after the bombing, the president insisted the attack was unstoppable, erroneously declaring that the truck crashed through a series of barriers, including a chain-link fence and barbed-wire entanglements, and argued that the U.S. mission was succeeding.
Despite the fact that Reagan had dispatched the Marines into an impossible situation and then had issued orders that led to their inability to defend themselves, he suffered relatively little criticism from the press or partisan opponents, and after months of vigorous campaigning was overwhelmingly re-elected the following year.
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You must not have watched his funeral.......
You are so WRONG... not even comparable situations....
I conclude you are not a Reagan fan....
Operation Urgent Fury, the Invasion of Grenada was October 1983, not 1982. I was serving at MCAS Cherry Point, NC at the time. Specifically, it was October 25 - 15 December 1983. Easy to remember because we lost our 241 Servicemen in Beirut on the 23rd of October. If memory serves, we lost 237 US Marines, 4 US Sailors and 2 US Soldiers. I’ll have to check those figures.
I remember when this happened, and Reagan did not escape blame; he certainly didn't escape criticism. The press were all over him for this as they later would be for Iran/Contra. Neither "scandal" really stuck because Reagan was so gosh-darned popular.
The correct numbers lost: 220 Marines, 18 Sailors, 3 Soldiers.
Missed two, guessed the rest...
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