Ronald Reagan

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Originally Posted by randolph

Well, the conservatives are celebrating the myth of Ronald Reagan as the great conservative savior. Reality is in short supply when it comes to what happened during Reagan's administration. ...

In spite of all this the myth lives on.

Your list omits what has been aptly called his Administration's "legacy of silence" on AIDS.

For two years in a row in the mid-1980s, the City of San Francisco's AIDS budget was larger than Reagan's for the entire United States. (Dianne Feinstein was mayor at the time.) Reagan's proposed federal AIDS budget for 1986 called for an 11 percent DECREASE in AIDS spending.

The figures are easily accessible, so I won't fill this post with more. I think the point has been made.