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BOOKSHELF - Presidency And Cold War - MAX-BOOT REAGAN HIS LIFE AND LEGEND PART 1
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1980 GOP CONVENTION
Presidency And Cold War
Max Boot, Part Two: Boot’s second hour evaluates Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaigns, White House governance, and international legacy. It details his narrow 1976 primary loss to Gerald Ford, 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter, surviving a 1981 assassination attempt, and enacting Reaganomics tax cuts. Managed by Jim Baker’s Troika, Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor, forged pivotal Cold War summit diplomacy with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, weathered the severe Iran-Contra political scandal, and left an enduring optimistic conservative national legacy. (2)