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Opinion: It's Time to Move On From Reagan
By Bob Maistros - AOL NewsI was a writer in Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984, a fact I usually don't mention until I get, say, two sentences into conversation with anyone I meet. I only met the president once in a grip-and-grin reception for staff. But because of my role, however minor, in the success of the greatest chief executive of my lifetime, I will be among those heartily celebrating the centennial of his birth. And then I will exhort my fellow Republicans to move on. This sentiment isn't fashionable right now, as the Great Communicator is more admired than ever. GOP leaders extol his bold tax and ...
Sarah Palin Ronald Reagan Gaffe at California State University
By David Knowles - AOL NewsEureka! Sarah Palin doesn't have it. Delivering a speech about Ronald Reagan to an audience at California State University, Stanislaus, over the weekend, the former Alaska governor made an unfortunate gaffe about where her political hero attended college. "This is Reagan country," Palin told the crowd, "and perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and interlinked to the Golden State." Apparently Palin didn't seem to realize that Reagan attended Eureka College in Eureka, Ill. Palin's flub is reminiscent of the one made by ...
Tea Party Favorite Sharron Angle Left the GOP During Reagan Years
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyNevada Senate nominee Sharron Angle, who invoked Ronald Reagan's name when she won the GOP nomination to challenge Harry Reid in November, actually left the Republican Party to become a Democrat at the height of Reagan's White House years, the Associated Press reported. Documents show Angle -- now a Tea Party favorite -- was a Republican until June 1984, when she changed her registration, remaining a Democrat at least until March 1988. Campaign spokesman Jerry Stacy said Angle switched parties to work for a conservative Democrat who was running for state senate. He said Angle voted for ...
Republicans Place Risky Bet on 1980 Economics to Win in 2010
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyRepublicans are relying on 30-year-old economic ideas to catapult them to congressional majorities in the November midterm elections. But that's a risky business, given that so many Americans remain strung out with anxiety over money, jobs and health insurance. At first glance, nothing would seem safer in 2010 than campaigning on the old Ronald Reagan themes of less government, less regulation, less spending and lower taxes. After all, voters are angry about bailouts, concerned about deficits, worried about their personal finances. Let's put aside the fact that Reagan greatly expanded ...
Donald 'Buz' Lukens, Ex-Ohio Lawmaker Derailed by Scandal, Dead at 79
By Tom Diemer - Politics Daily"Buz" Lukens had a thing about timing. He was prescient as an early supporter of the presidential aspirations of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, but he was way off when he launched his own campaign for governor of Ohio in 1970. And he ruined his political comeback and disgraced himself when he was convicted of paying a 16-year-girl for sex in 1989. Former Rep. Donald E. "Buz" Lukens died of cancer Saturday in a Dallas nursing home. He was 79. Say this for him -- he was a genuine political character. Charismatic, with "Hollywood looks" as the New York Times put it, Lukens was a ...
Ulysses S. Grant Trounces Reagan in $50 Bill Face-Off
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 22) -- A North Carolina congressman has proposed replacing the likeness of Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 bill with that of Ronald Reagan. But according to a new poll, a large majority of Americans aren't buying it. According to a Marist poll, 79 percent of Americans surveyed said swapping Grant for Reagan is a "bad idea," while just 12 percent said it is a "good idea." Nine percent said they were unsure. The idea had been championed by Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry, who argues that Reagan was "one of the most transformative presidents of the 20th century." Scott Stewart, AP Since ...
Obama's Nuclear Moves: Good for America, Bad for Democrats?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPresident Obama is setting new priorities and new directions for the country as he tries to curb nuclear proliferation and prevent nuclear terrorism. What could be bad, right? He's following in the tradition of Ronald Reagan. Yet there is the depressing possibility that Obama's efforts to make the world a safer place could feed doubts about whether he and his party are macho enough to protect the country. The promise and the peril were summed up in an exchange on Politics Daily's Facebook page. "I trust our president to work for peace," wrote Erica Kirchner-Dean. Retorted Grant Miller, no fan ...
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Washington Hilton: 45 Years of History
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 25) -- Lyndon Johnson walked in unannounced to a cocktail party of 2,000 people. The first President Bush asked for an opinion on a bill passed that day in Congress. Yankee slugger Joe DiMaggio autographed a baseball. Film director Alfred Hitchcock drew his famous profile on a piece of paper. "They've all been here, believe it or not," said Charlie Ragusa, a senior banquet captain who served them. "VIPs, they're all over the place." "The place" Ragusa speaks of is the Washington Hilton, which has hosted presidents, kings, politicos, movie stars and sports legends since it ...
GE and Ronald Reagan: The Mutual Gift That Keeps On Giving
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAs part of a one-year celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, General Electric will run ads honoring the 40th president's legacy -- and will donate $10 million to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library, along with an additional $5 million in scholarships. This is fitting. In a very real way, General Electric was the vehicle that Reagan rode in his journey from film star to politician. It was a symbiotic relationship, too: Although GE paid Reagan $150,000 in the mid-1950s -- when his movie career had stalled and such a salary was worth more than $1 ...
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