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They mention Regan a total of 2 minutes!


WTF. This guy won the cold war and ushered in the roaring 80s. Yet they mention him for no more than 2 minutes. Virtually no mention of the fall of the iron curtain.

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Because anyone over 25 years old knows who he is and what he did.

He's taking the knife out of the Cheese!
Do you think he wants some cheese?


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2 minutes is 1 minute and 59 seconds more than he's worth or deserves.

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Reagan didn't "win" the Cold War. It was the culmination of the efforts of many of our Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter AND Reagan.

Reagan just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I don't understand why he gets so much credit for that.

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The Soviets defeated themselves. And it wasn't a military/political defeat. It was an economic failure that had more to do with McDonald's than any U.S. president. We were just there to crow about it and take undeserved credit for it when the USSR dissolved.

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The Berlin Wall fell under Bush Sr. and he didn't try and take credit for it.

Anyway, there was hardly any mention of Andrew Jackson, who was easily among the top five, if not top three most important Presidents we've ever had.

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"Reagan just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I don't understand why he gets so much credit for that."

But, I'm sure you're happy to credit Clinton for the economy of the 1990s, eh?

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