[WmShirerAdmirer]

Thanks for posting. This website will be very useful to me to blog the “Reagan” appeal to the 21st century ‘I Love the Eighties” past YUPPIE crowd who are now probably like myself, decidedly 'conservative'. Thanks again!

[TnGOP]

The summer of 1980. I remember the heat well. That summer still holds the record across a lot of the South for the hottest. More consecutive 100+ degree days, longest streak of the temp not going below 80 degrees, little rainfall. I was working in a building supply where about 15% was air conditioned, and the rest had a tin roof.

That's also just about the time we started listening to that "crazy" guy running against Carter. He made sense. We trusted him. I cast my first Presidential vote that November, age 18 - the rest is history.

[jeffc]

I loved the 80’s. It really was the best time of my life, evn though I would not give up what I have now (wife, kids, etc.). A fantastic time to be a young adult.

[SunkenCiv]

Touring Miami's riot-torn areas, Sen, Ted Kennedy speaks at NAACP meeting and criticizes President Carter and Ronald Reagan for ignoring social programs... [if memory serves, in the interview, when answering a question about his universal health care proposal, he said he'd "let the Blues do it."]