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Roy C.'s avatar

Yes, it was a turning point towards me vs we. As Candidate Reagan replied, "there he goes again" towards President Carter's clarion calls for conservation, he cast caution to the wind.

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Bryan Sean McKown's avatar

I briefly encountered Ronnie as an Undergraduate at UCLA at a Regent`s Meeting that was declared an "Illegal Assemby" & the curtain pulled back to a thick Glass Wall revealing a '60's Tableau of students being battered back with Police Batons. Reagan? Ronnie was acting non-plussed waiting for the Director to yell, "Cut" - that's a Print.

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J L Graham's avatar

Odd to contemplate given Nixon's irresponsibility in other areas, but Nixon was forward-looking and protective of the environment. Protection of the global environment as antithetical to the official Republican notion of "freedom" began with Reagan.

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