Long ago when I went to the UH as a returning vet, nearly all my profs and most classmates hated Nixon, ignored Ford and adored Carter (even though they had to wait in gas lines two blocks long). They were friendly enough but treated vets as ticking time bombs or brain dead monkeys.
By 1975, with the fall of the Republic of Viet Nam, they became insufferable, vindictive and fey. These were my college years.
Ronald Reagan took the Presidency January 20, 1981 and said, "It's morning in America". I was skeptical but he was right. As America rose again from the Carter malaise, I learned the most valuable life lesson, optimism.
Thank you, President Reagan