dc_dux, Reagan's choosing to launch his 1980 campaign in Philedelphia, Miss., his "Vietnam was a noble war", message, his attack on the chancellor at Berleley and his firing of the man, and his "conversion" from a democrat who headed the SAG to this:
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http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/r.../02_kerr.shtml
UC Berkeley Public Affairs | 2 December 2003
BERKELEY – Clark Kerr, a towering figure in higher education, died Monday, Dec. 1 at the age of 92. As president of the University of California, he was chief architect of the master plan that guided California public higher education for four decades and is still a national model.....
.....Students protested a decision by the Berkeley administration to shut down a section of the Bancroft/Telegraph corner because student activities there violated a rule prohibiting the on-campus raising of funds and recruiting of participants for political activities off campus. That sparked a prolonged confrontation that ended with the mass arrest of 800 students who had taken over the administration building, Sproul Hall. Kerr ultimately persuaded the UC Regents to allow political activities and demonstrations on campus.
His actions, however, ran counter to the direction of the conservative leadership of the UC Regents and, in 1966, of the newly elected Republican governor, Ronald Reagan. In January 1967, three weeks after Reagan took office, the Regents dismissed Kerr. Kerr later quipped that he came into the job as president "fired with enthusiasm" and left the same way. But those who knew him said that, even his final years, he was hurt by the way things worked out. ...
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/timeline/index.html
1952 Ronald and Nancy March 4: Marries Nancy Davis, an actress under contract with MGM.
October 22: Daughter Patricia (Patti) is born.
<b>(Saint Reagan seems to have engaged in pre-marital intercourse with Nancy Davis....)</b>
1959 During his last term as president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan fights for, and achieves, better benefits and working conditions for actors.
Fidel Castro's "revolution" topples the right-wing Batista government in Cuba.
1960 As a "Democrat for Nixon," Reagan champions Nixon’s candidacy for president, delivering more than 200 speeches in his support.
1962 G.E. fires Reagan as a political liability when he takes on the Tennessee Valley Authority, as an example of "big government." G.E. has contracts worth millions of dollars....
.....1966 January 1: Reagan announces candidacy for governor of California. He promises to reduce the waste in government and to "clean up the mess at Berkeley."
November 8: Reagan elected by almost 1 million votes more than incumbent Democratic governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown.....
1967
October 25: Reagan calls for a harder line on war protestors.
1969
Spring: Reagan sends in the National Guard to break up a student strike at University of California at Berkeley. Armed with bayonets and tear gas, the National Guard occupies Berkeley for 17 days. The event establishes Reagan as a peace-restoring hero for some, a trigger-happy extremist for others.
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dc_dux, IMO, reagan was an awful man, without any integrity, a man who would say anything that he would anticipate appealing to his "base".
He was first elected in 1966 with two themes, "Cleaning up the mess at Berkeley, and "sending the welfare bums back to work"....
He was an ignorant, selfish, divider who doubled the federal deficit during his president and persuaded people to thank him for doing it.
dc_dux, Ken Starr investigated Clinton for more than 6 years. Please describe one or two incidents about Clinton, discovered in the course of the Starr investigation, other than allegations about his sex life and sexual practices, that back your opinion that his character was lacking, compared to Reagan's.