Nevertheless, Westwick says, “I’ve seen no contemporary evidence that it was a bluff, at least for the first few years of the program, and the person whose view counted the most, namely Reagan, certainly didn’t view it as a bluff.” The American Presidency with Bill Clinton Explore th...
Ronald Reagan: “Remarks to the Finalists in the Teacher in Space Project,” June 26, 1985. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, APP, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=38825. 31. Information on the teacher-in-space selection process comes from Dennis Jenkins, Space Shuttle...
Despite Reagan’s rise in military spending to $1.6 trillion, he had declared the U.S. was “weak and disintegrating [and] had to show their firmness of manhood.”134H. W. Bush soon invented a new U.S. global enemy:terrorism. When cartoonists pictured him in a dress with...
Only now does the full extent of their murderous involvement in Indonesia before and after 1965 emerge in the revelations of Roland Challis5, the South East Asia correspondent of the BBC during the coup d'état which brought Suharto to the Indonesian Presidency, and organised, with direct ...
“only” a few hundred deaths among the U.S.-led coalition of forces. Air strikes against Iraq would follow in the years to come. And let’s not forget that even Europe wasn’t exempt since, in 1999, during the presidency of Bill Clinton, the U.S. Air Force launched a destructive ...
Newly elected Ronald Reagan began to restore the “Regal Presidency.” His entire term in office was replete with the pomp and circumstance, and gaudy ceremonies that Carter had downplayed and other presidents rejected.Nancy Reagan. who many believed was his brains after an assassination attempt ...
Only now does the full extent of their murderous involvement in Indonesia before and after 1965 emerge in the revelations of Roland Challis5, the South East Asia correspondent of the BBC during the coup d'état which brought Suharto to the Indonesian Presidency, and organised, with direct ...