A little history for you Reaganites

hseiken · Nov 11, 2013

I found this page to be fairly accurate, though there's some things taken out of context here and there. It's largely accurate, though, so it gets a pass for the 5-10% of innaccuracies and/or false framing of things.

But I still present it here for the Reaganites. I'm tired of hearing how 'awesome' he was. The dude had a screw loose and his administration had a ridiculous amount of federal prosecutions for any president, past or present.

An excerpt:

"By the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."
from p. 184,Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years, by Haynes Johnson, (1991, Doubleday), as are the examples below:
1.) James Watt, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior was indicted on 41 felony counts for using connections at the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help his private clients seek federal funds for housing projects in Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Watt conceded that he had received $500,000 from clients who were granted very favorable housing contracts after he had intervened on their behalf. In testifying before a House committee Watt said: "That's what they offered and it sounded like a lot of money to me, and we settled on it." Watt was eventually sentenced to five years in prison and 500 hours of community service.
2.) Although not convicted, Edwin Meese III, resigned as Reagan's Attorney General after having been the subject of investigations by the United States Office of the Independent Counsel on two occasions (Wedtech and Iran-Contra), during the 3 short years he was in office.
3.) E. Bob Wallach, close friend and law classmate of Attorney General Edwin Meese, was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $250,000 in connection with the Wedtech influence-peddling scandal.
12.) John Poindexter, Reagan's national security advisor, guilty of five criminal counts involving conspiracy to mislead Congress, obstructing congressional inquiries, lying to lawmakers, used "high national security" to mask deceit and wrong-doing.
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etc.

I'm just posting this so I have something to point to the next time I hear about how great a president Reagan was. He was a great man in that he showed how to NOT be a president.

Full article with citations here:
http://liberalslikechrist.org/about/Reagan.html

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