Hints and tips:
...It is one thing to say your rival believes in voodoo economics, as George HW Bush did of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Reagan selected Bush as his running mate....
...Even if Trump loses in 2024, it’s hard to envisage that the “America First” party, warning of enemies both within and outside its walls, returns to the Republican party of Ronald Reagan....
...But he lost the general election to Ronald Reagan by a landslide....
...It is based on the eponymous book that the Heritage Foundation published before Ronald Reagan took power in 1980. He implemented most of its policies....
...edward.luce@ft.com...
...Ronald Reagan, who challenged Kissinger’s boss, Gerald Ford, for the Republican nomination, accused Kissinger of appeasing the Soviets....
...Ronald Reagan believed the nine most frightening words in the English language were: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...If it were taken more seriously, Jimmy Carter would be credited for having seeded the Soviet Union’s demise and Ronald Reagan would not have been canonised as a modern saint....
...In the latest episode the Swamp Notes podcast, the FT’s Alex Rogers and Edward Luce discuss how money is shaping the 2024 US election. Listen here....
...After victory he will make Ronald Reagan look like a policy wonk. But this does not mean that the Heritage Foundation will rule....
...Ronald Reagan. Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85, by Robert Gildea, Yale University Press £25, 496 pages...
...Our top-line question every month is the old saw that Ronald Reagan used to beat Jimmy Carter in 1980: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”...
...A rational US stance would be to mistrust and verify, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan....
...He also notoriously was a micromanager, unlike Ronald Reagan who delegated virtually everything. This approach backfired on Carter....
...If Ronald Reagan, as a presidential candidate, made a secret deal with Tehran to delay the release of the hostages, as Luce suggests, where is the evidence?...
...Edward Luce responds Thank you Rana. I have indeed been steeped in the past over the last few weeks — though the history I’m writing about is somewhat more recent than the Missouri Compromise....
...However, Luce need not marginalise Ronald Reagan’s role in bringing about the end of what he called the “Evil Empire”....
...In 1981 Ronald Reagan showed he meant business by firing striking air traffic controllers. Here was Biden’s chance to make an equally robust statement in the other direction....
...This is the age of Ronald Reagan and Dan Quayle. A fellow California politician said: “You could walk through Ronald Reagan’s deepest thoughts and not get your ankles wet”....
...my colleague Joshua Chaffin’s acutely observed piece on the New York governor’s race between Kathy Hochul and Lee Zeldin — a closer race than expected partly because of generous support for Zeldin from Ronald...
...It should have been possible to turn the same plot into an opera less hobbled by problems than those created by the libretto given to Benjamin Britten by Ronald Duncan....
...Ronald Reagan quipped there was nothing scarier than the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
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