American - Historian | August 7, 1953 -
Toward the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, Reagan gives a speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater. It was like a screen test for a new career.
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Reagan conspired in the underestimation of his own ability.
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Most presidents have not considered 100 days a significant milepost.
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Interest in the Founders has risen and fallen over time, as has admiration for them and their accomplishments.
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In revering the Founders, we undervalue ourselves and sabotage our own efforts to make improvements - necessary improvements - in the republican experiment they began.
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Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought for.
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The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.
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Previous candidates who get elected are almost always sobered by the office and the responsibility they take on. Donald Trump shows no evidence of that. He's the same Trump that he was when he was host of his reality TV show. He's the same Trump that he was when he was a candidate.
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The president of the United States from the 1940s until 2017 was considered the leader of the free world - probably the most powerful person in the world - not simply in terms of America's military might but in terms of the moral authority of the president. Donald Trump has largely abdicated that.
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Love makes the most careful man wreckless.
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The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the center of politics was Congress.
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The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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