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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRonnie Reagan - 1948 Was The LAST TIME Ray-Gun Told the TRUTH
Ronald Reagan - then a liberal Democrat - campaigns on the radio for President Truman in 1948. He also supports Hubert Humphrey for Senator from Minnesota and opposes the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 which had been passed by the Republican congress over Truman's veto.
Dem President Gives Republicans HELL
clips of President Harry Truman addressing the 1948 convention. GOP lost the majority in both houses for over 46 years.
In 1948, no one gave Harry Truman much of a chance at winning re-election. But when the President stepped up to the convention podium at two o'clock in the morning, his vehement lambasting of the "do nothing" Republican congress was so dynamic, so unexpected, it reinvigorated his candidacy and established both the tone and the message for his entire campaign.
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Ronnie Reagan - 1948 Was The LAST TIME Ray-Gun Told the TRUTH (Original Post)
Segami
Nov 2014
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Reagan is very popular on DU now, people claim voting for him was brilliant, the choice of geniuses
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2014
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Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)1. Reagan is very popular on DU now, people claim voting for him was brilliant, the choice of geniuses
The fact that he did nothing about AIDS while thousands died is not a factor to the current batch of Reagan revisionists. Reagan's strident anti choice policies, his racist dog whistles and his flat out stupid contempt for science and medicine are unimportant to those who insist that it was understandable to do those things, especially if one is making millions and millions consulting and advising....creamy goodness to the tune of cash. Who cares about the millions who died when there are millions in my account?
Segami
(14,923 posts)2. Yup,...a real saint he was..


11 Bravo
(24,311 posts)3. Clark Clifford described Reagan perfectly ... "An amiable dunce".
kentuck
(115,409 posts)4. That would make a great political ad.