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SUBURBS RUN HOT AND COLD ON IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS PARTY POLITICS COLOR THE VIEW FROM NEWTON AND HAMILTON
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Standing up from a couch where he had been watching the
Iran-contra hearings on television last week, Alfred Bergeron of
Hamilton concluded that President Reagan was getting a "bum rap."
The 45-year-old retiree said foreign policy is full of secret
maneuvers with twists and turns; this one just happened to receive
the glare of publicity.
"I think this kind of thing goes on in government a lot," said
Bergeron, who has twice voted for Reagan.
But Richard Morrison, ...
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Ronald Reagan: the Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency.(Book Review)
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STATING THEIR VIEWS IN A NATIONWIDE SURVEY, REPUBLICAN CHAIRMEN ASSESS THE REAGAN PRESIDENCY, THE EFFECTS OF THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR, AND THE GOP CANDIDATES' CHANCES IN 1988
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REAGAN, ALL-AMERICAN, DIES AT 93 40TH PRESIDENT LED A REVIVAL OF CONSERVATISM
The Boston Globe
; ... suffered from Alzheimer's disease and had begun "the journey that will lead into the sunset of my life." Mr. Reagan broke the news of his illness in an affecting letter to the American people in his own hand, a gesture of farewell that softened his critics ...
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; Ronald Reagan had an uncommon ability to give voice to the optimism and patriotism of the American people. The most conservative president in half a century, he bore down on Soviet communism and challenged the central assumptions about what government should do. Reagan's death Saturday, at age 93,
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Golden Boy; Why the Reagan of the 1960s still matters today.
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Former President Ronald Reagan Dies at 93.
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Ronald Reagan; As president, he made us proud again.(NATION)(RONALD REAGAN: 1911 -2004)
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