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hedgehog

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7. It's hard to recall the details 30 years later, but IIRC,

Reply to Festivito (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 25, 2012, 03:40 PM

Jun 2012

I had high hopes that he would disassociate the US from dictators around the world. He moved too slowly with that for my tastes. As I said above, looking back, i suspect he was dealing with an ostensibly Democratic Congress uninterested in rocking any boats. Think DLC on steroids.

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He never disappointed me, he kept his morals and ethics ,unlike the rest. bahrbearian Jun 2012 #4

Because why? He did not stop inflation caused by our wasted war in Vietnam? Festivito Jun 2012 #6

It's hard to recall the details 30 years later, but IIRC, hedgehog Jun 2012 #7

Was it his energy policy ? Stop imports, because they are a threat to national security? bahrbearian Jun 2012 #9

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