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desk — Media news & commentary
As
predicted, a spate of editorials, articles
and reflections have showered President
Ronald Reagan with paeans to his leadership.
They claim that he was the most popular
president, forgetting that President Clinton
had a far higher
approval rating and a much better approval
rating in his last two years (Reagan slumped
after Iran Contra). They may also have forgotten
that Reagan raised
taxes, adjusted for inflation, at a
higher rate than Clinton, or that, unlike
Bush, he backtracked
on his tax cuts when they became economically
untenable.
