Ronald Reagan
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Ronald Reagan is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between April 14, 2021 and July 25, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “They included Ronald Reagan’s adopted son”; “even Ronald Reagan, the president most opposed to an expansive federal government”; “he lost to Ronald Reagan”. It most often appears alongside Congress, France, Georgia.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: April 14, 2021
- Last seen: July 25, 2023
Appears In
- Prospectus On Próspera
- Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
- Your Book Review: The Outlier
- Highlights From The Comments On Social Model Of Disability
Related Pages
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- Congress (3 shared issues)
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- France (3 shared issues)
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- Georgia (3 shared issues)
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- Israel (3 shared issues)
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- United States (3 shared issues)
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- Vietnam (3 shared issues)
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- Australia (2 shared issues)
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- Bush (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- CIA (2 shared issues)
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- Clinton (2 shared issues)
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- COVID (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Attention turned to a definitely-existing group called the Committee For Best Practices (CAMP in Spanish) which was handling the day-to-day negotiations. But its members seemed to have been hand-picked to raise eyebrows. They included Ronald Reagan’s adopted son, the foreign minister of Oman, US low tax campaigner Grover Norquist, and - in case there was a single conspiracy theorist anywhere in the world not already on high alert - a member of the Habsburg family. I would say this raises a lot of questions, but really the only question anyone had at the time was “what?”
It is a universal feature of the American government that substantial federal agencies do not shrink — even Ronald Reagan, the president most opposed to an expansive federal government since Coolidge, failed to see any reduction in spending.
Like most people under 70, I was more aware of Carter’s post-presidency role as America’s kindly old grandfather, pottering around holding his wife’s hand and building Houses for Humanity. I mostly knew that he liked to wear sweaters, that he owned a peanut farm, and that he lost to Ronald Reagan.
He also has the misfortune to be running against Ronald Reagan, who, in addition to being a once-in-a-generation political talent, is willing to fight dirty. Afraid that a last-minute hostage release deal (the possibility from which the term “October surprise” originates) will secure Carter’s reelection, Reagan’s campaign manager William Casey cuts an illegal backroom deal with Iran to ensure the hostages stay put until after the election. Or at least, it sure seems like he does—there’s no definitive proof, and many sources say otherwise, but a lot of highly suspicious circumstantial evidence has emerged in recent years. And not just from Reagan’s enemies—even James Baker, Reagan’s Chief of Staff, says that Casey probably did it [5].
Left-handedness was much discriminated against in the past. For example, Ronald Reagan was a natural lefty who was brought up to write righthanded. But then discrimination against left-handers greatly declined in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if the immense popularity of lefthanded baseball heroes like Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth changed American attitudes. For example, in the 1992 Presidential debate, all three candidates (Clinton, Bush, and Perot) took notes lefthanded.