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Unlike other Presidents--except, perhaps, for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson--Reagan came to power as the leader of an ideological movement: in his case, a fierce conservatism forged and tempered by decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized...
...retrospect, we should have done more and been more organized around the layoffs this year,” she says. “What form that would have taken isn’t really clear...
...work but I feel like it was worth it to be part of his class. In retrospect though I would’ve taken a lighter class load in another class to compensate for his class,” says Andrew P. Brecher...
...don’t know in retrospect if that’s a terrific idea,” says George M. Whitesides ’60 about his three-year College education. “All the things that would be wonderful to have done in that last year, I didn’t do them....It’s nice at the time because it makes you feel special, but what comes of the flexibility is what you make...
...Unlike other Presidents-except, perhaps, for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson-Reagan came to power as the leader of an ideological movement: in his case, a fierce conservatism forged and tempered by decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized...