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• Title: How Right was Reagan? the 40th President Gave America Hope--But That's Not Enough (Sunny Side up) (President Ronald Reagan) (Cover Story)
• Author : The American Conservative
• Release Date : January 04, 2009
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 87 KB

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A FEW WEEKS AGO, my mailman delivered an invitation to my 30th high school reunion. I'm not sure the shock made me feel any older, but the landmark has led me to think about what was going on in America and the world in the summer of 1979. It's hard to be nostalgic. Jimmy Carter was president. Inflation was high. The energy crisis had become a part of daily life. By the end of the year, Iranian revolutionaries had taken 52 Americans hostage and the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan. On July 15, a few weeks after my graduation, President Carter delivered a nationally televised speech in which he spoke of "a fundamental threat to American democracy." That threat took the form not of international Communism or the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Rather, he sensed a debilitating "crisis of confidence" about the nation's future, a spiritual emptiness brought about by a culture of "self-indulgence and consumption" and an erosion of faith in our institutions. Quickly dubbed the "malaise speech," his sermon may well have cost him re-election in 1980. Sackcloth and ashes just weren't America's style. Sunny Ronald Reagan, Hollywood actor turned California governor, racked up a stunning 489 electoral votes to Carter's dismal 49.

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