Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FORGET the $2 million in honoraria for his trip to Japan. The easiest bucks that former President Ronald Reagan will earn in his commercial ex-presidency will be the royalties from Speaking My Mind, a compilation of old ghost-written speeches slapped together and marketed for $24.95 per copy...
Although the book's jacket-hype calls it "a major work of documentary history and the...personal record of a beloved president," most of Speaking My Mind is less a valuable look inside Reagan's mind than a tribute to the rhetorical skills of his speechwriters...
...Ronald Reagan...
...annotation to the text, Reagan repeatedly asserts that the speeches in the book flew forth from his own inspired pen. In some cases, this is evidently true. It is in these speeches that we find the unforgettable gaffes such as "We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night...They were all on a diet...
Citing the fated Model Cities Program under the Reagan Administration, Haar warned against spreading scarce resources too thin. He also advised the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has until 1991 to decide where to create the EZs, to target those cities whose needs are most pressing...