I was selected to attend Naval Officer Candidate School in the early 1980s thanks to Ronald Reagan's Maritime Strategy, a deliberately biased, half-baked military doctrine whose aim was to siphon billions of military dollars against a non-existent Soviet Seapower threat. You will recall that $2 billion were dedicated to refurbishing four WW II battlewagons, resulting in an explosion of 16 inch gun on USS IOWA, killing 44 American sailors. Thank you Sec Navy John Lehman. I was present in Beirut when 244 U.S. Marines were killed by a suicide bomber on Oct 23, 1983 because of the ill-considered deployment of U.S. troops in a hot war zone. And I was on my way home from deployment when Reagan decided to invade Grenada in order to distract America's attention from the tragedy in Beirut. I was present when Reagan spoke at the memorial service of 31 sailors from the USS STARK who were killed in an accidental launch of two Exocet air to surface missiles in the spring of 1986. I am a die-hard fan of Harry Truman and understand that Truman (creator of NATO) is the REAL reason for the demise of the USSR. Reagan actually should rank somewhere around the middle of all Presidents who have served their country, and even this is generous. The book TEAR DOWN THIS MYTH is especially timely with the recent attempts by conservatives to replace U.S. Grant on the fifty dollar bill with Ronald Reagan. To this day I wonder how anyone with any sense of civil rights history can forgive his kicking off his 1976 bid for the Republican Presidential nomination in Philadelphia, Mississippi, site of the murder of three civil rights activists in the 1960s. Ronald Reagan presided over the Iran-Contra scandal, he initiated the greatest shift of wealth from the middle to higher upper class individuals in America (emulated by Bush I and Bush II), and he decimated social services in America in the 1980s. All the while Nancy Reagan was spending $250 K on White House China while both Reagans presided over their dysfunctional family unit: ask Ron Reagan or Patti Davis for details. This book is easily read and well documented. Reagan deserves little respect for his contributions (???) to history. He was a paper mache leader. Gorbachev has repeatedly admitted the USSR was fated to implode even if Krusty the Klown was President (Gorbie does not refer to Krusty, that is my own embellishment). Read this book. It tells the sordid truth about the "Great Communicator," who was in fact a cruel, indifferent man with no regard for the common American. PS. Why the hell is a national airport named after this guy?
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