Remembering Teddy

[kincsem]

Everyone else is gushing about the Great Man.  I prefer to remember him without the faux trappings of "Camelot", including the data bits that if Jack had been anybody else's son, he would have been court-martialed for incompetence for his handling of PT 109, and that brother Robert worked with McCarthy during the "witch-hunts" [turns out McCarthy

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[imps85]

Well Reagan was for sure not good in diplomacy... especially not with the soviet union.

[kincsem]

I would assert just the opposite.

Who demanded the Berlin Wall come down, and with what effect after it had been there nearly 30 years? I am sure there would still be 2 Germanies without Reagan.

Reagan is popularly portrayed as a sleepy dullard. This is not true. Reading what the man actually wrote, as opposed to what his political enemies have said about him, reveals quite another person. Reagan was a far sharper, deeply read person than he is portrayed, vastly more so than Obama.