Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.
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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Republican - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.
I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.
Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.
Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.
So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
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