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Overated by who and in what way?
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The public. People skirt over the negatives of Reaganomics, the Iran-Contra affair, and his expensive failure on the 'war on drugs', among other things. They jump straight to "here's the guy who ended the Cold War", as if he did it single-handedly.Do youreself a favor and watch this, because that sounds like exactly the same rhetoric that comes from far left, much like the anti-obama comes from the far right.
These are pretty cool because they appear to be very umbias and back it up with facts, rather than a mission of character tear down:
Decisions That Shook the World
2004UR140 minutes
Bold decisions by three 20th-century U.S. presidents are the focus of this three-part documentary. The film examines the global effects of Lyndon Johnson backing civil rights legislation, Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" defense system and Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to arm Britain before America joined World War II. The program includes rare footage and interviews with Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and newsman Walter Cronkite, among others.
The Johnson one is good too.
... But its the truth? The War on Drugs has been deemed as a money pit of failure.. The contra scandal was one of the biggest scandals in history that fortunately Reagan was able to distance himself from.. And finally he IS consistently deemed as the president who ended the Cold War and did it all by him self.. Not the 30 years of presidents before that, not due to the fact that Soviet Union collapsed in on it self due to severe problems from the get go.. And the Star Wars program was a glorfied missle defense system.. In which most realists would reject as a good idea because it destroys M.A.D... Meaning that having a large amount of nuclear weaponsno longer isn't the bestsecurity of invasion or what not, and itcould create a whole new glorified arms race again.
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