Seven Things About Ronald Reagan You Won't Hear at the Reagan Library GOP Debate

[marmar]

(The Intercept) Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debates are being held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California — so you can be sure that each candidate will deliver an effusive homage to Reagan, and then explain why he or she is Reagan’s one true heir.

(The first GOP presidential debates were in Cleveland, and even there Reagan was invoked by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, Rick Santorum and Lindsey Graham.)

But no matter how much the candidates talk about Reagan, you can be sure that none of these extremely important things about him will come up. And maybe that’s appropriate — since if Reagan stood for anything as president, it was creating a completely fictionalized version of the past.

Reagan launched his 1980 general election campaign with a speech lauding “states’ rights” outside Philadelphia, Mississippi — the site of the notorious “Mississippi Burning” murder of three civil rights workers in 1964.

James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were abducted and killed in Mississippi by the local Ku Klux Klan in June 1964 — a case that garnered enormous national attention because, as Schwerner’s widow said, he and Goodman were white. ....................(more)

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/seven-things-reagan-wont-mentioned-tonight-gops-debate/

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1. Carter - Reagan

Carter wash the first "born again" President. Reagan was the second.

Both claimed to have seen UFO's. Reagan claimed he saw them twice - once going to a party with Nancy and once on the Governor of California airplane. He insisted that references to aliens be included in his speeches.