Clint Eastwood: Just Say No (& Nancy)
“didn’t work at all.”
Says who?
What was the drug use rate in minors as opposed to now?
Willis, Arnold and Kimberly may have gotten lots of scripts, but did dot read that script.
At least she tried it was a losing effort as shows like Breaking Bad and Narcos literally make these people out to be some kind of anti heroes
I read at the time that it was very effective, and commonsense told me it was a smart effort.
They were drilling into kids’ heads that they could “just say no” they didn’t have to debate their friends or win arguments, they could simply say “no”, it was a shifting away from the feeling of being outnumbered and being crushed by peer-pressure, to making the dopers look like the outsiders, the losers.
A junior high kid or a high school kid could just express his own stand, his own position, his own decision with a firm stand on nope and not feel totally alone when doing it.
The media hated the campaign, hated her, hated him. The Reagan years were very frustrating for the media.
When the media hates the president and does everything it can to destroy him and mock him, belittle him, and bring him down, and then he wins 49 states, well that has to be a shock to their minds.
Famous for saying when a reporter asked her why she had come to Atlanta, she said, “I don’t intend for this to take on a political tone. I’m just here for the drugs.”