Either Reagan knew that his administration subverted the Constitution and the will of Congress to send arms to Iran in exchange for money and cocaine or he was clueless. Either way is un-heroic and either way maintained an illegal war in Nicaragua, in violation of the Constitution that Reagan pledged to uphold.
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Grenada was invaded because Cubans were building an airstrip for tourism.
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And his children from his first marriage said kind things about the man after he got sick. He was, afterall, their father. But when growing up, Reagan didn't bother to tell Patti that she had a sister. When Maureen confronted him, he just shrugged it off with that vacant look of his and said he just hadn't gotten around to telling her. His daughter Patti Davis, notorious for her colorful life and tell-all memoirs, remarked in 1991, “The mark of this family is that everybody is distanced from everybody else. ...There was no glue in this family.” Once, Reagan failed to recognize Michael after giving the commencement speech at his graduation from an Arizona boarding school. “My name is Ronald Reagan,” he said to his son. “What’s yours?” Michael, in a 1988 memoir, wrote that he spent his childhood seeking affection. He complained that he and Maureen were raised by nannies and maids. After their parents divorced, they were sent to boarding school — Maureen at 7, Michael at 5. It was only when Michael was 14 and returned to live with his father that the children from his second marriage learned they had half-siblings from his first.

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Reagan's policies helped cause the worst recession since the Great Depression: two bleak years with nearly double-digit unemployment! Reaganomics failed in less than a year, and it took an entire second year for the economy to recover from the failure. The total federal tax burden increased during the Reagan years, and most Americans paid more in taxes after Reagan than before. Six years into Reagan's presidency, Democrats retook the Senate, and began to reverse some of Reagan's horrendous policies. By that time, Reaganomics had "accomplished" quite a bit: doubled the national debt, caused the S&L crisis, and nearly wrecked the financial system. The economy enjoyed its recovery only after total tax increases larger than the total tax cuts were implemented. Most importantly, average annual GDP growth during the Reagan 80s was lower than during the Clinton 90s or the JFK-LBJ 60s.

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Ron Regan Jr. on W -- "The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job... What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?"