Matters of Policy & Politics

Matters Of Policy & Politics: The Problem Was Not The President

President Ronald Reagan’s relevancy in this day and age.

Matters of Policy & PoliticsFebruary 7, 2022
Matters Of Policy & Politics: The Problem Was Not The President

This past weekend marked Ronald Reagan’s 111th birthday. Peter Robinson, the Hoover Institution’s Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow and a Reagan White House speechwriter, discusses the late president’s relevancy in this day and age – in the American heartland, on the global stage, and within a Republican Party whose current infighting contradicts Reagan’s “11th Commandment” of intraparty civility. 

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Peter M. Robinson

Peter M. Robinson

Bill Whalen

Bill Whalen

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