Tuesday 24 January 2017

Ronald Reagan Hagiography or is it really?


Now, this was hard. It's easier to find the downside especially online, the hagiography, on the other hand, took some digging, although it's easy to note that there was a lot on Nancy Regan and how much of a following that she had a first lady and political leader in her own right.  Actually, the field was so small that blog post from earlier years is what come up instead. But his nickname was the Great Communicator, and a lot of love during his actually presidential term come from the fact that he was nearly assassination allowed him to have one of the highest approval ratings.
Ronald Reagan salutes.
Although, it has to be noted that the largest bronze statue of Reagan is in a very unlikely place which during the time felt like the downside of Reagan admission. Covington had been a Democratic stronghold for a century, and during Reagan's second term the town in Louisiana fell on hard times due to the oil bust. Their view by 2003 has changed, they even had a Ronald Reagan highway. This was all because of Patrick F. Taylor, Louisiana tycoon, owner of Taylor Energy Company, one of the 400 richest men in the world who was actually good friends with Regan. Then in 2004 when Reagan passed away, unfortunately, 5 months later Taylor just passed away, which delayed everything meaning the status didn't go up till 2008. It's a strange place for it because there's no reason to believe that he ever set foot in the small town. It shows Reagan off as pro-business and pro-military in a tight-fitting business suit, saluting.

It may actually look familiar this because it was used as the backdrop for many talks that the Tea Party talks. Jeff Crouere discussed how Reagan's tax cuts in 1981 actually created 21 million jobs. Unfortanly when many consider Reagan be that in a positive or negative way it always about money and his economy strategies, like how either his strategy worked or didn't. Many forget that it was in enough to save and set up a better social security. Which very limits his presidency. But he is something that both Republicans adore him, and even Democrats can agree on. It's seen that Obama was very much in favour of Reagan, he used his ideas to help bring the divided Congress together. Along with in 2010 Obama gave his Christmas address he read from Reagan biography. But he really needs to be remembered as the man without the Berlin wall would have never have fallen without him. 
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Source; 
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/18405
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/02/rollins.reagan/index.html?iref=allsearch

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