Posted on 01/12/2007 1:45:53 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Yes, but, GA Jimmy for all his faults did not appoint John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court.
so what did Reagan get?
Holy cow! was Gerald Ford in a coma during Carter's presidency??
In response to a question asked by Max Frankel of the New York Times concerning the Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, Ford said, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration." Frankel responded, "I'm sorry ... did I understand you to say, sir, that the Soviets are not using Eastern Europe as their own sphere of influence in occupying most of the countries there?" Ford responded, "I don't believe ... that the Yugoslavians consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union. I don't believe that the Romanians consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union. I don't believe that the Poles consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union. Each of these countries is independent, autonomous, it has its own territorial integrity, and the United States does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union."In response Carter said he'd like to see Ford "convince the Polish-Americans and the Czech-Americans and the Hungarian-Americans in this country that those countries don't live under the domination and supervision of the Soviet Union behind the Iron Curtain."
So I was wrong, Poland was mentioned but it certainly wasn't the primary focus of the disastrous exchange in that debate.
Thanks for putting it more succinctly than I did. Great line.
There's a quote the lamestream media won't be repeating over, and over, and over again.
Bringing some strength back to the dollar was part of Reaganism, not causing a severe recession. Of course, the strong dollar policy ended with 1985's Plaza Accord.
I am losing respect for President Ford EVERYDAY. He is worse than the living Presidents. Everyone praised President Ford for not bashing his fellow Presidents, but he was worse and did it in death. I am really disappointed that he could not face his fellow Presidents when he bashes them. I suppose I will get flamed for this, but come on nobody could possibly find this a good thing.
Excerpts of Ford comments on presidents
The Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_go_pr_wh/ford_presidents_excerpts
Excerpts of former President Ford's comments about fellow presidents from 25 years of interviews with The Grand Rapids Press:
On Harry Truman: "Look at what he faced. There was the challenge of Korea in 1951. He had no hesitancy using atomic weapons (on) Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He came up with the Marshall Plan, which saved Europe after World War II ... He deserves high marks."
On Dwight Eisenhower: "The best president of my lifetime ... The Soviets under Stalin were an aggressive, formidable military operation. NATO, under Ike, stopped them ... Overall, the economy under him was in pretty good shape for eight years."
On John Kennedy: "He had a tremendous following, but I think the substance of his presidency was not as good as it was professed to be ... Kennedy would never have gotten the civil rights legislation through."
On Lyndon Johnson: "Lyndon, despite his personal eccentricities, did a lot of good things ... At times, while he was president and I was (House) minority leader, he was unfair and too tough on me ... He was caught up in the worst aspects of the Vietnam syndrome. He inherited a policy that started with Kennedy, and he didn't want to break it off. And it kept getting worse."
On Richard Nixon: "On foreign policy, he was the best of (the 20th) century. He was very intelligent and very strong ... Nixon was a bad president when it came to picking some of his top people — Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson ... Nixon made a few very serious mistakes. He was so stubborn that he would never concede or admit that he had made them. And they steamrolled."
On his own presidency: "It was a very unhappy time in our history. Because of my background, my reputation, we calmed things down and restored confidence in the federal government. That doesn't mean people agreed with me. At least they trusted me."
On Jimmy Carter: In 1981, Ford called Carter "the poorest president in my lifetime." In 1998, he said Carter was "a better president than some comments we hear today ... He was a very decent, fine individual. There were no major mistakes. There just weren't a lot of exciting results."
On Ronald Reagan: "A great spokesman for attractive political objectives. The American people liked to hear him talk about a balanced budget. They liked to hear him talk about how good America was and how bad communism was but, when it came to implementation, his record never matched his words."
On George H.W. Bush: "A good president. ... He handled the Saddam Hussein conflict very skillfully. ... He didn't realize, or his people didn't realize, that the economy was in trouble. ... By the time the Bush administration woke up, the Democrats had the issue and Bush never got it back."
On Bill Clinton: "Probably as skillful an articulator of politics since Franklin D. Roosevelt. I have grave reservations about his convictions, but when you come to being a salesman, he's about as good as it gets ... I think he will come out as an average president, overall ... He never had the substance, the willpower to face up to a crisis."
Why would tax cuts cause inflation?
I'm glad this story came out. We can see from this that the supposed veneration that former Presidents have for each other is mythology.
Nobody mentions that countries were falling to communism like dominoes during Carter's term, but Reagan stopped that cold, then reversed it. His bold move in Grenada did much to sober up the Kremlin, and to hearten the anticommunist forces in Central America, South America, Africa and Asia. His call to the Kremlin to tear down the wall was heard loud and clear by the people of Eastern Europe, who proceeded to rise up and make their voices heard.
Calling Carter a Disaster is like saying the Titanic was a tragedy. its practically a synonym. Carters presidency was a disater to me and I was a teenage bleeding heart liberal, embarrased to have him as a president. I became a conservative 2 years into Reagan when I started feeling proud of my country again and a conservative friend pointed out most of my actual beliefs where conservative and I was flat out wrong about "disarmament".
"was just a poor manager, and you can't be president and do a good job unless you manage."
The difference between Reagan and Ford:
Reagan was a LEADER and Ford was a manager. Ford never understood the difference.
I personally like Gerald Ford, but he couldn't hold Reagan's jock strap.
Ford should have kept all his ramblings private until 10 years after his death, or, better still, kept his mouth shut.
"Reagan was a LEADER and Ford was a manager. Ford never understood the difference."
Agreed but then again Ford became President because of the 25th Amendment and not elected. But given the difficult circumstances in which he had to serve, Ford did a decent job.
This is an insult to Warren Harding!!!
Carter was much worse than Harding!! :^)
WOW! Someone said they thought Ford was in a coma during the 1970`s. Not true. Seems like Ford was in a coma his entire LIFE! LOL The Reagan record is not perfect, but the Reagan leagcy is a great one.
President Reagan dismantled the Soviet Empire and the communist Eastern Bloc; freeing some 500 million people from totalitarian rule; and winning the Cold War in the process; he revived the US economy from the worst conditions since the Great Depression; rebuilt the US military; cut federal income taxes 25% across the board; reduced the top tax rates from 70% to 28%; reduced welfare state and non-defense discreationary expenditures; and reduced federal regulations like no Prez before or since. Reagan was also America's first pro-life POTUS. Reagan`s leadership was extraordinary, winning two historic elections and uniting America behind common goals. Reagan basically halted the march of liberalism in the 1980`s. They should have given Reagan the Nobel Peace Prize for making the world a safer place for all everyone.
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