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What It Takes.
When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan, by Peggy Noonan (Viking, 224 pp., $24.95)
Successful presidents, as Tolstoy somehow neglected to tell us, are all alike, while each failure fails in his own way. Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, and Jimmy Carter did not fail the same way as Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, but each damaged the country. By contrast, the best ones -- Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, the early Cold War presidents, and yes, Ronald Reagan -- all shared some pertinent traits: All were able to define and embody the national purpose and character, to name the key challenges of their era and meet those challenges. Reagan, it ...
- USS Ronald Reagan Commemorates Anniversary of Typhoon Relief Efforts.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire June 23, 2009 700+ words
...M2 PRESSWIRE-23 June 2009-US NAVY: USS Ronald Reagan Commemorates Anniversary of Typhoon Relief...1st Class (SW/AW) Frank E. Neely, USS Ronald Reagan Public Affairs USS RONALD REAGAN, At Sea -- USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) commemorated...
- Pelosi Tribute to President Ronald Reagan.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 9, 2004 700+ words
...floor to honor former President Ronald Reagan during consideration of a Bereavement...with the death of President Ronald Reagan and the dignity with which he...Reagan. "We Californians mourn Ronald Reagan as our Governor. All Americans...
- The Left Starts to Rethink Reagan.(History)(Ronald Reagan)(Discussion)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek May 12, 2008 700+ words
...disarrayed ranks to swing the polls in Ronald Reagan's favor. Until recently, however...liberals, didn't think much of Ronald Reagan at the time. Unlike Roosevelt...people a long time to catch up with Ronald Reagan. But I think that now they can...
- The History Channel(R) Special Tribute: RONALD REAGAN: THE MAN THEY KNEW; Three...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 7, 2004 700+ words
...As America mourns the death of President Ronald Reagan, The History Channel(R) honors his extraordinary...History Channel three-hour primetime tribute to Ronald Reagan titled RONALD REAGAN: THE MAN THEY KNEW airs THURSDAY, JUNE 10 AT...
- Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader.
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Previdi, Robert March 22, 1998 700+ words
DINESH D'SOUZA, Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an...feel good about your country, Ronald Reagan, and yourself, read this book...have made it their cause to tear Ronald Reagan apart. D'Souza gives Reagan...
- Landing right.(renaming National Airport after Ronald Reagan)
- Magazine article from: National Review Scully, Matthew March 9, 1998 700+ words
...going up and it's now official: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport...Washington" instead of a straight "Ronald Reagan National Airport," like New...the 58-year-old airport "Ronald Reagan National." The effort went mostly...
- Black America Has Overlooked the Racist Policies of Ronald Reagan
- Magazine article from: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Anonymous July 1, 2009 700+ words
Throughout his presidency Ronald Reagan fanned the flames of racism in...tell anyone who would listen that Ronald Reagan belongs on Mount Rushmore. It...nostalgia for the Reagan years. Ronald Reagan remains the most idolized of our...
- Ronald Reagan, TV Auteur.(TheFrontPage)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) June 14, 2004 700+ words
...the end, Mr. Donaldson said Ronald Reagan was great with TV cameras, but...politician in the 20th century, Ronald Reagan knew what he was doing with the...the confidence of a pro before; Ronald Reagan had been paid to work on movie...
Source: HighBeam Research, What It Takes.