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Posted on 06/06/2004 8:04:28 PM PDT by summer
Bombshell revelations about Ronald Reagan.
A new book released nationwide today [Jan 2002] offers several bombshell revelations about Ronald Reagan.
In "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism," author Peter Schweizer writes that Reagan survived no fewer than five serious assassination plots or attempts.
After digging through Soviet Communist Party archives and once super secret classified U.S. documents, Schweizer leaves no doubt that the radical left here in the U.S. and communists abroad sought to stop Reagan's climb to power and, later, his presidency.
Schweizer says that Reagan's anti-communist efforts in Hollywood made him the No. 1 enemy of the Left.
In 1946, Reagan was targeted for assassination, as were his children. Things became so heated that he spent nights sitting up with a loaded .32 gun guarding his family. Tensions over Reagan's run-in with the Left may have contributed to his divorce from actress Jane Wyman.
In 1969, when he was governor of California, radicals came within inches of firebombing the Reagans' home in Sacramento. Gunshots fired by alert guards prevented the bombing.
The Weather Underground had made killing Reagan a top priority and even kept a bullet with his name on it at its secret headquarters.
In 1976, radicals fearing that Reagan would win the presidency plotted to kill him, with the probable help of Cuban intelligence agents.
And in 1983, while he was president, the North Koreans tried to kill him during his historic visit to the Korean DMZ.
Schweizer reveals new KGB files that Soviet and other intelligence agencies tracked Reagan during his entire career and took extraordinary steps to prevent his political rise.
This is a meticulously researched and penetrating analysis of the Cold War and the man who ended it. Peter Schweizer delves into the origins of Ronald Reagan's vision of America, and documents Reagan's consistent, aggressive belief in confronting the Soviet Union diplomatically, economically and militarily.
The Left often dismisses Ronald Reagan as an "amiable dunce," a genial actor who simply mouthed whatever slogans his right-wing puppet masters put in front of him. "Reagan's War" brilliantly overturns this myth. Drawing on private diaries dating from Reagan's days as an actor and extending through his presidency, Schweizer, a well-known historian of the Cold War, shows that Reagan's fervent anti-communism marked every era of his life and was the driving force behind his policies as president.
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OHH I never read that book Summer
Thanks for book tip
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I wonder what kept McDonald's enemies from shooting him on a streetcorner, drive-by style (or equivalent) instead of waiting to get him in an elaborate airline plot...
Summer I think Jane Wyman divorce Ronnie because of his continuous talk on politics that is
Also it classic Star is born Janie was bigger star that he was
She won Oscar for Johnny Belinda
And later on start on 1980 soap opera Falcon Crest
Thanks!
Jimmy Carter's Dirty Tricks
Soviet diplomatic accounts and material from the archives show that in January 1984, former President Jimmy Carter dropped by Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin's residence for a private meeting.
Carter expressed his concern about and opposition to Reagan's defense buildup. He boldly told Dobrynin that Moscow would be better off with someone else in the White House. If Reagan won, he warned, "There would not be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan remained in power."
Using the Russians to influence the presidential election was nothing new for Carter.
Schweizer reveals Russian documents that show that in the waning days of the 1980 campaign, the Carter White House dispatched businessman Armand Hammer to the Soviet Embassy.
Hammer was a longtime Soviet-phile, and he explained to the Soviet ambassador that Carter was "clearly alarmed" at the prospect of losing to Reagan.
Hammer pleaded with the Russians for help. He asked if the Kremlin could expand Jewish emigration to bolster Carter's standing in the polls.
One of my favorites...
During a microphone check President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
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Clancy is accurate about this.
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YES, exposes what and who Hollywood was and became, and why it was necessary to discredit McCarthy.
..Reagan kept fine company and the world, today is better for it.
"Interesting. Has there been any sort of research done on Reagan's would-be assassin John Hinkley's political beliefs and affiliations?"
From what I remember Hinkley tried to kill Reagan in attempt to impress the actress Jody Foster. Ms. Foster appears to be liberal from the little I've heard about her over the years. My guess is that Foster must have made some ill comments about President Reagan. He was just trying to garner her attention by attempting the assassination.
Do you remember the following/
''I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.''
Got to get that book!!!!
Carl Bernstein reported on this several years ago in Holy Alliance. Take a look at it - a very interesting read.
One paragraph from this article:
The key Administration players were all devout Roman Catholics--CIA chief William Casey, Allen, Clark, Haig, Walters and William Wilson, Reagan's first ambassador to the Vatican. They regarded the U.S.-Vatican relationship as a holy alliance: the moral force of the Pope and the teachings of their church combined with their fierce anticommunism and their notion of American democracy. Yet the mission would have been impossible without the full support of Reagan, who believed fervently in both the benefits and the practical applications of Washington's relationship with the Vatican. One of his earliest goals as President, Reagan says, was to recognize the Vatican as a state "and make them an ally."
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Armand hammar was also Al Gores fathers sugar daddy and actually the whole Gore familys Uncle Hammar.. not to speak of Al himself.
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