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Exilednight

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8. I was teenager during the Regan years. I was
Sat Jun 6, 2015, 07:56 PM
Jun 2015

10 when Reagan was elected and I remember doing a scrap book as part of my class project. At the time my dad was working for the Carter administration as a cultural attaché to Japan.

When Reagan took office our country came to a fork in the road. We went right instead of left and Reagan drove the bus to a dead end road.

The one thing my dad noted was how Reagan gutted many agencies of career federal employees in the CIA, State, DoD FBI and many other agencies. We had a tradition of hiring the smartest people from the most elite universities regardless of ideology. Reagan changed that and his administration began hiring based strictly on ideology, no matter how stupid they were.

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