The MAN who brought down the Iron Curtain - Ronald Reagan - Forgotten History
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- Most people around the world remember Ronald Regan as the 40th American president, and many people remember his has an actor turned politician and a former governor of California. But many people do not know his military background, nor his many accomplishments including collapsing the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, that seemed to go unheralded during his two terms in office and are even little known today.
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My favorite quote by Reagan, "the nine most terrifying words in the english language, I'm from the government and I'm here to help". He wasn't perfect but he was perfect for the time.
Absolutely. It is easy for people to be critical. Let's see them do that job. No, better not. It takes intelligence to recognize subtitle positivity.
The government in the form of Social Security has helped my family tremendously, my grandparents and mother! The California Employment Development Department helped me get the best job I ever had back before that was gutted by budget cuts. Now it's a joke that tells you to put on a tie and write a resume. The EPA begun by Nixon has helped turn the skies over Los Angeles from a putrid choking toxic horror to at least breathable air. The Greenbelt Cities of Rexford Tugwell and FDR's New Deal are very desirable places to live now and the residents are fiercely proud of their New Deal lineage. Tugwell was forced out of the Roosevelt Admin. because right wingers called him a communist. A progressive democratic government can be thanked for a great many goods and services enjoyed by the American people. Most of that has been rolled back over the past 43 years.
he was proven pedophile, by nebraska senator & exposed, he wicked & in hell now
@@edbenti5007 And they were correct in calling him out as such. You think you've been helped but only in so far as getting around the obstacles those who helped you put up in the first place. And at a significant personal cost to yourself, as it sounds to me you do not have an independent bone in your body.
People need to stand on their own and find their way through the world. Suffering is to life what the fire is to the forge. It is what steels a man or grinds him to dust.
As far as Commiefornia's pollution problem it was solved by innovation and the free market, government doesn't solve anything, they create problems then use those created problems to expand government through bureaucracies.
I spent more than 20 years in government. That joke was always on my mind.
During one of his debates with Carter, Carter made a comment about something Reagan would have to do if he wanted his job. Reagan replied "I don't want your job, I want to be president of the United States." Brilliant come back for sure.
As a non American from Scotland. Reagan is my favourite president of the US and his politics are extremely close to mine even though I was born in 87 so can't remember his time. But researching him substantially I really admire him. Especially is position on not allowing the government to have to much control over your life. 🏴🦁🤝🏽🦅🇺🇸
Move here. We need more people like you sir
I literally had a professor fail me on a test because i refused to go along with his narrative that carter got the hostages released. That guy was something.
a real loser that pseudo professor
Reagan got them released by promising weapons to Iran in the Iran Contra Affair. Look up the October Surprise. The Iranians didn't release the hostages because they were afraid of Reagan, they had a deal with GHWB, the "fix was in".
By no means a perfect man or president. However, IMO he is counted as one of our best.
Growing up, I never felt more safe when Ronald Reagan was president. God Bless you, Mr. Reagan!
Fuckin A, Served Active Duty under Carter an Reserves under Reagan, big difference, Rest in Peace Ronnie.
Amen 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 and 🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽that corrupt scumbag POS Jimmy Carter
Thank you for your service and God bless you 🫡
You were in the service immediately after the Vietnam disgrace. What do you expect. Reagan blew the budget on the military and cut taxes on the rich and left the country with a TRIPLED national debt. I believe raising pay for the servicemembers was a very good idea, a form a progressive government redistribution, but to simultaneously slash taxes on the superrich from 70% to 29% at the expense of social services? BS.
Most Amazing President and My Commander In Chief while serving in the US Army (1975-1995). Thanks you so much for such an incredible Tribute to such a great Man and President.
Did you know the "Father of the American Army" was an open homosexual? Look up Baron von Steuben. It's quite a remarkable story! He was instrumental in winning the Revolutionary War, and was honored by George Washington.
Don’t know that person, but in 1987 when we in the Army were barely surviving in a super low wage (we were getting 1-2% Cost of Living Expense in our pay), President Reagan gave the Military an 11% increase in our pay. I was with the 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment, Ft Bliss, TX and we had M60 tanks, M113 Armor Personnel Carriers, Jeeps and Cobra Attack Helicopters (all Vietnam Era Equipment), He gave us M1 Abram Tanks, M3 Bradly Fighting Vehicles, HumVees and Apache Helicopters (State of the Art Equipment). Created the must advance and Modern Army in the World. The equipment use during all wars and conflicts up to this day. He was the Grates Commander In Chief of this Generation. (Post Vietnam Era)
My C. in Chief also! While I served in the US Navy. Naval Combat, Land, Sea & Beach Master unit (1979-1984). Never in a war, but the weapon I was assigned with was the belt fed M-60 machine gun. The other team members carried the M-16 AR's with a grenade launcher. I was the team's Machine Gunner. I'm glad I never used it in combat because it could have easily wiped out an entire platoon of enemy combatants if we were combat engaged. We weren't thank God. We had the fire power & our troops still do to this day.
As a young Marine, he shaped my way of thinking. God Country and Corps. Never voted democrat
Fuckin A Brother, same here but Army
Former navy, Regan destroyed this country along with every other dem.
If you hate the deep-state thank Regan and his cocaine trafficking cia cronies
He was like Mr Rogers but with an agenda.
@@stayfrosty2519 he tricked so many red blooded Americans
Same here! Chair Force!
Thank you for being the ballsiest channel on UA-cam. Putting out straight history with no slant.
No slant?! This man's bias is the only reason he can never be a truly great historian. It's sad really.
@@edbenti5007 Explain where the slant is. Give me a timestamp.
@@johndoerr8853 This video content creator is clearly biased. His "Worst" series seem to always be Democrats and he produces very sympathetic videos of Republicans. The list of truly wicked things Reagan did, from declaring that homeless want to be homeless after shutting down mental facilities turning patients onto the streets, then slashing the budget to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development by 75% all the way up to Iran Contra and the "Dirty Wars" is astonishingly cruel. If all you care about is throwing billions at the military, while slashing taxes on the richest robber barons on earth, paid for at the expense of "the least among us" then Reagan was a great guy.
I don't care about either side of the aisle. Both are crooked, but he is leaning towards the right. They got us where they want us fighting while they all get rich and powerful. The last thing they want is a united populace. Get it thru your head. Your neighbors are not your enemy. The Government is
Reagan wasn't perfect but as a teen growing up in the 80s it seemed he embodied everything that was good in the United States. I've watched his address to the nation on the night after the Challenger disaster a dozen times and his compassion brings tears to my eyes every time. We will never see another one like him.
You do realise he was a very experienced professional actor? Actors can fake compassion or any other emotion on cue.
I've listened to lots of his speeches, they may of been written by speech writers, but man they inspire, nothing even comes close anymore, it's like a lost artform.
One of his advisors did not want him to use the "Tear down this wall" line. He did anyway. I for one am glad he did.
You should listen to FDR's fireside chats. Listen to why he created the National Labor Relations Board, to prevent the industrialists from playing a venal game of "beggar thy neighbor" with American working peoples' lives.
All of this is what got me started. I was ten years old in 1980 and a month shy of turning 11 when Reagan was inaugurated. My parents sat me down and made me watch the debates against Carter. I was watching the news the day the hostages were released, after over a year of seeing the daily day count on the front page of the paper as I brought it in for my Dad. I remember Charlie Daniels singing the anthem for the Reagan Revolution. I remember when Reagan, John Lennon and Pope JPII were all shot.
How could anyone grow up during this time and not take an interest in politics and their country.
As a result. I joined the Reagan Navy later and cast my first vote, absentee, from boot camp for Bush 41 and I now have a 20 year old grown daughter named "Reagan." By chance, she was born one month before the Gipper died.
It was one hell of a time to be a kid in America.
My dad put up a poster in our garage with Regan with a cowboy hat on. My dad was a 2 job blue color man that raised 7 kids with my mom. Im 65, my moms still here, my dad passed 20 years ago. My mom has not taken down that poster, its still there.😢
Ronald Reagan was not the friend of blue collar working Americans. That's the sad truth. He was a union buster and oversaw a massive outsourcing, offshoring and down sizing of America's blue collar employment. FACT. They didn't call it the "Reagan Rust Bowl" for nothing.
Forgotten History videos are so good I often give a 👍🏻 as soon as I start watching 😜 Especially the one's Colin does.. This video about Reagan did not disappoint!
Thanks for that!
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL thank you for the awesome videos!
He gave America hope again!
Made us proud to be Americans as well.
he gave America's rich a massive, and I mean a MASSIVE tax cut and tripled the national debt.
President Reagan wasn’t perfect, but he was considerably better than ol’smiling Jimmy the peanut farmer.
thats an incredibly low standard. 😂
@@krtacct I liked the Gipper, I was assigned to Presidential Support Duties during his 2nd term and a brief period during GHWB. I transferred overseas after that.
@@SSgt- Reagan was a good man and a great leader. the world misses him. i had some friends in the corps who were with the PSB at camp david and 8&I. you and them were an elite few who should be especially proud of their service .🫡
Haha peanut farmer lol
Reagan spent his wartime service in Culver City making movies. Carter actually served. He was an expert in nuclear submarines.
I owe a lot to Ronald Reagan. He forever changed my political affiliation from my from democrat to republican. In 1980 I did not believe what he was promising America. In 1984 I seen that that only did he keep his promises. He was a true innovator. I think things would be really different right now head he never been elected president of United States. And I don’t mean for the better, rest in peace, sir, you served our nation wealth.
Oh my God! What did Reagan innovate? Cutting taxes on the superrich, lavish bloated spending on the military, slash social spending? Reagan TRIPLED the national debt. Laissez fair capitalism isn't innovative. Seriously what did Reagan innovate? Union busting is hardly innovative! He began the wholesale destruction of the New Deal, and Clinton nearly finished it.
I remember during the general election of season 1980 people mocking Reagan because of his acting background. Someone among the group said in comparison to Carter, "Maybe Reagan can act like a president." He did. In my book was one of our best.
Added: I've read all the negative comments and "Reagan caused" claims. Shoot, we may as well go back and say James Buchanan caused what we see today because he, before Lincoln, could have resolved north vs. south issues. Never blame everything on one man. Remember there is a Congress involved. I'll admit even Jimmy Carter was a moral and decent man. He was just in way over his head in the office of U.S. President. Just as (the old way) in the military "respect the uniform." In turn respect the office.
I agree! Jimmy Carter was a horrible President,but as a patriot,a good honest man
And wonderful humanitarian! He bloomed where he was born and never left Plains GA . He has been a great family man with deep religious ties!
He was a great communicator, and his sense of humor was unmatched. He made some serious missteps during his presidency that are hard to forgive, but even with that, he was head and shoulders above any other person who has occupied the Oval Office in the last 60 years. I miss him.
Reagan did irreparable damage to the fabric of American society. The bankrupting of Main Street and the bloating of Wall Street are the real legacy of Ronald Reagan. Robert Bork and Milton Friedman are why we have the American equivalent of Korean Chaebols now instead of the TRUST BUSTING the great progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt championed. It's so sad to see how the Republican party became the party of fascism when it was the genuine progressive powerhouse more than a century ago.
President Reagan made you feel proud to be an American. Unlike the current pretender in Thief. I remember the patriotic fervor in our country in 1984, it was the 40th anniversary of the allied D-Day invasion, President Reagan went to Normandy, I enlisted in the Navy July 20th, 1984. Reagan was far from perfect, only Jesus was, but I loved Reagan. I had the chance to talk to his son Michael on his radio program, and talked about how his Dad, frankly forgave his would-be assassin; who was, just coincidentally, an acquaintance of the bush crime family. Things that make you go humm. 🤔
Bush also set up the Beirut bombing, by insisting on patronizing Arabs. (Arafat) made the USMC position vulnerable.
I grew up in Reagan's America and have fond memories of the 80s. Times for dark in the 90s... grunge, gangsta rap, political correctness, Ruth Bader Ginsburg... the 80s were the last great decade we've had and probably will have in my life time.
I was in elementary school in the 80’s and I remember it being a time when we were taught to support the President and to respect the office. It’s a far cry from what things are now and I wish it could be more like it was back then.
President Reagan owns my highest respect.
as usual, a great job in research on this great president
It is partisan.
Hey Colin, Regan could tell a cracking joke or 100. Social Media and Smartphone syndrome have destroyed great communicators such as this great human being
Shutting down the mental hospitals and banning machine guns was terrible.
Oh yeah, the shutting down of mental hospitals wasn’t great either.
His repealing of the MHSA seems to be the straw that broke the camels back and we are feeling it now more than ever and he did more damage to the 2A than any leftist could dream of during that era.
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL True but his quotes are still relevant. My favorite quote.
“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.”
― Ronald Reagan
Trump has also damaged the 2A with unlawful red flag laws that he supported, bump stock bans, and so on. No one should ever forget the "Take the guns first and due process later." quote. Too bad presidents and representatives don't uphold their oaths of office to support and defend the US Constitution. The reason they don't is that they are threatened by the unlawful appointed/unelected Marxist Establishment deep state. National government agencies are a violation of Article I representative government. Congress unlawfully created them in violation of that Constitutional article and Article VI paragraph 2.
That part! I've always been a fan of Reagan but those 2 things have always left a bad taste in my mouth. He did so many great things for America (and the world) but casting the mentally ill into the streets and infringement on our 2A almost cancle it out. However, I wasn't shat out the womb till '88 so I only have history books and stories from the people who were of age in that era. I wasn't there myself so I can only take it at face value and try not to judge
Well Henkly gave birth to the Brady bunch and the rest is history opening up a boat load of new gun control groups but don't forget the Stockton school shooting also got a lot of that moving also with Feinstein leading the way. But the closing down of the mental health facility did leave me scratching my head. And that was stupid of him
My favorite President of all time. I wish we can bring him back. I love that man and everything stood for.
I admire President Reagan first president I got vote for when turned 18. Now we need President Trump back in this progressive movement is destroying our country 🫤
Proud to say he was my Commander in Chief!
I was an enlisted Marine and he was one of my CnCs. I know he made some mistakes but i would still follow him.
Semper Fi
Ronald Regan was the closest thing to a father I ever had.
That's sad because even those who knew him closest said he didn't emotionally connect with people on a profound level at all. The best thing my dad ever said about him was he mixed a good martini. That's one way he schmoozed the press.
We need a Reagon again. We have lost so much of our nation, culture, morals, and ideologies do to decades of subversion aimed at destroying us from within. Reagon warned that we are always one generation away from losing our great Republic. Thank you for the video.
he's THE gipper
He did a great deal of damage to the United States, but he made the rich wealthier than any in human history, slashing their taxes from 70% to 29% and he tripled the national debt.
After voting for Carter and watching how things fell apart during his administration , I voted for Reagan . I honestly felt Carter was a good man and tried to do the best he could , but I believed he was in over his head .
Reagan was the total opposite of Carter and with this I saw how his way of doing things were positive . He , in my honest opinion , was the best president the country needed . Today Trump is the best since Reagan . I truly hope the country will wake up and see we need people like these two or we will end up like those of the yellow fruit nations .
Under the current administration we are not far from becoming the latter .
Yes.
I went into service in 1988, I went in with the best ever to hold office, and I do not forecast any one who would do better a better job.
I was born just as Reagan came in to office. I can remember some of the accomplishments that he did and I even have a piece of the Berlin Wall that I brought back after my visit. This was really well done and a pleasure to watch, thank you Dr. Heaton !!!
And look who we have now.......sad for America. Regan did his job for America and ol school values and sure do miss him now for sure! TRUMP 2024.
Reagan was a God send! I had a job with annual pay raises, good benefits, etc ...Thank you Colin and prayers up for our Ronald Reagan, our hero!
An American hero. The man who won the cold war.
My favorite quote from reagan was I do not recall. He liked it so much he kept saying it over and over.
Regan and Trump are my 2 favorite presidents from my lifetime.
I really appreciate this report. Serving under Reagan was a pleasure... especially considering I retired under no-bama.
This was one of your best episodes Colin! I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you!
I had to stand and salute my flag there at the end. What a great man.
I remember that letter, especially one specific sentence that put me in tears, I was 19 years old at the time. That sentence was, "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life." It was a poignant and beautiful letter written from the heart. Ronald Wilson Reagan was the LAST President prior to President Trump that loved this Nation, OUR HOME, and her Legal American citizens, without exception, without fail, in every way.❤
Thank you for sharing this Professor Heaton.❤
~APRIL LIPKE
I consider casting my first vote in 1984 for Ronald Reagan, Peace be upon his Name, to be one of my proudest moments.
“The U.S., the shining city on the hill…”
Ronald Reagan
After 43 years of Reaganomics it's not so shiny anymore, but the superrich are wealthier than any humans in all of history, thanks in no small part to Reagan rolling back progressive redistributive taxation. Reagan slashed taxes on the superrich from 70% to 29%. Even under Republican president Dwight Eisenhower the marginal tax rate on the richest Americans was 92% in 1954. That's how we paid for the interstate highway system, the greatest space program on earth, the greatest military on earth, funded the social safety net programs, real genuine jobs programs etc. Today I believe the richest Americans are paying about 3%.
@@edbenti5007
Well….it was “shining” under Trump…..Americans enjoyed the “American Dream” under Trump even more so than under Reagan. Trump reversed NAFTA….an approved Reagan policy, Trump….returning an entire economy to Americans. And that’s only one of MANY returns Trump made to our great nation….
@@edbenti5007 FDR taxed the rich and gave us his Great Depression. Hating the rich is what got Communism started in so many countries. 120 million people killed by their own governments in the last 100 years. Most of that was Communism. Do you hate Trump for closing the Border? Eisenhower had "Operation Wetback." He rounded up Mexicans and sent them back to Mexico. The only "social program" America should have is healthcare. That is it! One chemo treatment can be $10,000.
I was active USMC during Reagan years. In 1981, right after inauguration, the military pay was significantly increased. Big morale boost. Loved Reagan.
“I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course.”
“No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector's share, and yet our government continues to spend 17 million dollars a day more than the government takes in.”
“How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to." And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.“
“This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves”
RR 1964 a time for choosing
This speech, the 1st time I heard it, I realized my government education destroyed my reality of America, the world and history
Great President ❤🇺🇸
Holy cow …….. tears came out at the end ❤❤so much love there 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I had money when he was president. Good times.
You were just also younger and earning !
Yes. I was working my way through school.
And there is a good chance if you don't have money today that is in part a result of some of Reagan's redistributive policies to the wealthiest. It takes time for the most regressive policies to be felt.
@@Nursebakr Reaganomics legacy is to have precisely generalised what you were doing to help you sustain student life to the full scale society. "gig economy" is now survival plan for most americans.
We have him to thank for that!
Exactly . And I didn’t do better until Trump .
As a Ranger during Reagan's term, his speech at Pont Du Hoc was/is my favorite!
When I joined the Army, G. Ford was POTUS. When R. Reagan was elected, the higher ranking NCOs in my platoon were happy that Reagan won and Carter was out.
I was young and didn’t understand why. After they explained why, I registered as a Republican and have never voted for a Democrat.
Albeit, I am a conservative more than a Republican.
Ronald Reagan was a great president. He wasn’t perfect, but nobody is. He definitely was the president we needed at the time. He did some things that I deeply disagreed with, but by and large did a great job. I wish he was president now.
The USA needs another Ronald Reagan more than ever.
Far from perfect he was a POS gun grabber. He also gave dems the power that they have today
that ending............ 😢
Left me in tears ....
“He’s an Actor” was my Dad’s response when asking him his opinion about President Reagan. ~ Sound familiar enough about the Ukraine War?
We are in the Ukraine war precisely because Reagan created the National Endowment for Democracy, a kind of CIA front group that has been working tirelessly to destabilize Ukraine for decades, spending billions to foment a revolution there so Western billionaires could go in and make money.
I was born in 1980. So I can very easily say that Reagan was the greatest president ever in my lifetime.
Godspeed President Reagan.
Thanks again Colin, we appreciate Your efforts. Best Wishes to everyone.
Colin , Very Well Done episode. I was a young adult during this period of my life and President Regan ,
Whether I knew it or or not helped shape my view of the
Reagan did more for the planet than all of the presidents put together.Its a good thing MR. RONALD REAGAN has passed on and went to heaven,because if he was here today,he would strangle about half the politicians,and simply scould the others so bad,they would resign.President Reagan was for the citizens,and not for himself.He wasnt a leader to make himself rich,he was a leader for the people.The measure of greatness is not about power,prestigue,or position,it is about SERVICE!Service to your country,and not to yourself,like all politicians in D.C.are today!
He was one of the best USA President we ever had. RIP Mr President
I remember watching his funeral and I'll never forget PM Margaret Thatcher reaction/display as she was at his casket. She lost a true friend that day and she knew and felt it.
Thank you for this episode. Ronald Reagan was the best president in my lifetime. The people of good character from the former Iron Curtain countries would definitly agree.
Not for black people
Thank you for 1 of the best videos i have ever watched.
Wow, thanks!
Always outstanding information... thank you from Maui.
My pleasure!
Rush Limbaugh certainly loved President Reagan.
I have a fondness for him because he was President when I was a boy.
Well done, Colin !!!
Best there ever was.
Former U.S president Ronald Reagan was my Commander in Chief also as some of the other viewers who've watched this video have posted.
Sing the image of Nancy add Ronald Reagan's casket again brought tears to my eyes all over again
I watch this website due to your revelation of facts. Thank you.
ty great videos
Whatever you say, for better or worse, my family moved to America during his presidency. We loved him and the nation he "made" for us to prosper in. Vaya con Dios señor Reagan.
If only he was here today .
Excellent work as always.. 👍👍
Thanks again!
Thank you!!
Excellent show
Hey Collin, love your videos, thank you for all your work producing them, and thank you for your service. Do you have one on the JFK Assassination?
No, we don't. I'm sure YT won't let it fly, so we haven't touched it. Thanks for watching
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Have you considered having a rumble channel? There has been several content creators leave boo tube because of the censorship. You could have a videos there without being restricted. The site is getting better btw
He was also the last President who didn't come from inherited wealth.
He was our greatest governor of California from 66 to 76 California was #1 vote red i turned republican after i got out the service semper fi.
what a President- we sure could do with one of his stature today!
Trump sounds a lot like Reagan! I remember the Regan years very great President, outstanding story teller and the best sense of humor! Reagan loved to tell jokes!!
Trump is no Reagan.
@@bluewater454 Shut up
Greatest President in my lifetime 🇺🇸❤️
No one could read a country or the world for that matter. He always seemed to know what to say anytime anywhere.
Although Reagan slashed federal spending, he managed to TRIPLE the national debt by giving huge tax cuts to the richest people. The single most devastating thing Reagan did to create homelessness was when he cut the budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development by three-quarters, from $32 billion in 1981 to $7.5 billion by 1988. The department was the main governmental supporter of subsidized housing for the poor. Add this to Reagan’s overhaul of tax codes to reduce incentives for private developers to create low-income homes and you had a major crisis for low-income families and individuals. Under Reagan, the number of people living beneath the federal poverty line rose from 24.5 million in 1978 to 32.5 million in 1988.
He's no Joe Biden!
THANKFULLY!!!!
Still a gun grabber though
Reagan was far worse. You can thank Reagan for the grotesque wealth inequality today which is at the root of the loss of the republic. He slashed taxes on the superrich from 70% to 29% thereby ending progressive redistributive taxation one of the pillars of our progressive republic. There are so many really BAD things Reagan did it’s impossible to put them in a comment section.
Yes and created jobs too. There lots of rich Democrats employing people too. If person starts his company by hard work and gets wealthy more power to them. Be happy you have a job. Covetousness is a sinful act. 🤔
@UCb0Kp99jbxwbcT_DqxyzlfQ FDR taxed the wealthy. And gave us his Great Depression.
@@edbenti5007 FDR taxed the wealthy. And gave us his Great Depression
13:58 _Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!_
Maybe a show on the decline of steel mills. A good many of them seemed to disappear under his watch as well.
I voted for Ronald Reagan in the presidential election of 1976, then for Gerald R. Ford, and Then for Reagan twice. I was a young pilot back in 1981, and well, the PATCO strike and then the Firing of the ATC controllers was not good, but it had to be done. It really sent a message to those fellows in the Kremlin that the gig was up. From what I have read, they are out of their minds. And then there was Congressman Wilson of TX, who managed to get the congress to fund the Afgan resistance. And, of course, Reagan got the Saudis to pump oil; there was a huge oil glut back then, and that hurt the Soviets even more than well "Star Wars." The left hated him, and members of my Party thought having after-hours bourbon with the Speaker of the House was not becoming since he was the Political Enemy, and Reagan, being who he was, said not after 5pm. I think that he got a lot of stuff through the Democrat-controlled house because of that, and Tip O'Neal was a Democrat from Boston, an actual adult who loved the country. I am a long way from age 26 in '81 and now retired. Reagan was by far the best President in my life time, thou I have to say despite the road blocks Donald J. Trump did a very good job for the most part. As for Jimmy Carter, he still lives, a very good man, but as President he was very lacking, yet he did love the country, unlike some that are in power today. Oh yeah Joe Biden was in the Senate at the time. That guy got to DC and never left.
The 1st man I ever voted for in my life
“The U.S., the shining city on the hill…”
Ronald Reagan
yes! same I was 18 :)
The other comment forgotten is on seeing a Civil Servant proposing a solution to which he replied " stand there and do nothing".
I remember him walking out (I don't know where) as my first memory of a president with his wife Nancy. Being so young and very much naive to the events of the world, I felt safe and assured by merely looking at Reagan with the innocent eyes of a child.
Akways loved him ,expecially his relationship with our Maggie when the Brighton bombing by ira took place. He was first to call her.
Reagan is the only man who can bring back the greatness of the Republican party , Trump is no Reagan. He was also right about Russia, I just can't fall in love with them like Trump has.
Trump killed more Russians than any other president, so... Thanks for watching
I hate to burst your bubble but Donald Trump had Vladimir Putin on ice.
I like Trump a lot but he no Reagan , just like Trump the press hated Reagan . just Reagan was so damn likable even his enemies liked him .
You’re right, Trump isn’t a globalist
Trump “fell in love with who? 🤨
At 9:04, the first person left of Nancy Reagan bears a striking resemblance to Donald Trump.
Killa mike has a great song in his legacy
He also signed the bill where you can't sue pharmaceutical companies over harmful shots that later people in charge would force you to take. Not cool!
Reagan did a lot more damage than most people realize.
Reagan began the destruction of the New Deal. He can be credited in large part for the catastrophic homelessness we have today. He told the Cal Nat. Guard they should shoot the students at Berkeley, so they did, injuring eight and killing one. Reagan was a monster.
Unfortunately, he wasn’t wrong to distrust the legal community and judges - they are corrupted by ideology and can’t be trusted to weed out frivolous class-action lawsuits.
His mistake was trusting the medical regulators/pharmeceutical companies.
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL I'm surprised you admit that. But I suspect your idea of damage is different than mine.
@@bluestatepaine Do you know who Reagan's own lawyer was? John Miller. A man is known by the company he keeps. Miller's son beat his own mother to death with a baseball bat and raped her body. That was Reagan's personal attorney, probably knew more about Reagan than either Nancy or Jane!
Thanks for including how widow Nancy embraced her husbands grave! But you missed some famous quotes from Ronald Reagan like "Honey, I forgot to duck!"
Reagan's Terror Wars in Central America make him anything but a communicator. Uneducated on foreign policy, an actor, he did what his advisors told him.
Same with corporate America & the banks.
Yes Reagan did some good things but he’s done some very bad things as well…
He supported the contras cause he believed in their cause. Biden supports Ukraine cause they are laundering him money
Any good president surrounds himself with good people. Most know that, apparently you don’t
Raegan ruined a lot of American lives as well, he was an actor before which is why he’s a great communicator