Ronald Reagan
Foreign dignitaries are seen at the National Cathedral 11 June, 2004 during funeral services for former US president Ronald Reagan in Washington, DC. First row from bottom: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh (R). Second row from bottom (L-R): Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R); King Abdullah II of Jordan (3rd R); South African Presdent Thabo Mbeki (2nd R) and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. Third row from bottom (L-R): First Lady of Mexico Marta Sahagun (2nd R); President of Romania Ion Iliescu. Fourth row from bottom (L-R): Iraqi interim president Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar (C), acting President of Lithuania Arturas Paulauskas (2nd R). Fifth row from bottom (L-R): Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C-looking towards the L), Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and First Lady of Britain Cherie Blair. Others are unidentified.
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How we stop the Black Panthers? Ronald Reagan has the answer/ You hear that? What Gil Scot was Heron
Organizers expect the one-day walkout to include workers employed at Smithsonian museums, the Old Post Office and Ronald Reagan buildings and Union Station, where tourists, lobbyists and members of Congress arrive by Amtrak train to Washington, DC. The strikers are part of a recently-unveiled organization, Good Jobs Nation, backed by labor and community groups.
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Flight delays pile up amid FAA budget cuts
FlightAware. Last Monday, just 6 percent of LaGuardia's flights were delayed.The situation was similar at Washington's Reagan National Airport, in Newark, N.J., and in Philadelphia, with roughly 20 percent of flights delayed.At airports, Monday is typically Read more »
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Bromund: Margaret Thatcher's lesson: To triumph, do your homework
Union , the civil service tried to brief her. She demanded a seminar with the West's best historians of Russia instead. Ronald Reagan also read a lot. But he didn't brag about it. He thought he'd get more done if people believed he was a slacker. His public Read more »
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Reagan, Thatcher forged a close, lasting bond
-- Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan , two self-assured and firm-speaking conservatives, joined forces in the early 1980s and drastically changed the economic and political landscapes in both of their countries.Their calls for more-austere government and Read more »
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Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, dead at 87
away Monday morning.During 11 bruising years as prime minister, Thatcher found a fellow believer in former U.S. President Ronald Reagan , transformed her country by a ruthless dedication to free markets and infuriated European allies.Thatcher retired from Read more »
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Northrop Grumman to move 1,000 jobs off Long Island
of the region's economy, has steadily lost jobs since the 1980s, when it employed as many as 80,000 people here during the Reagan administration's defense buildup. That number was down to 31,000 in 2006.Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, Read more »
Around the web
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Inside the Ring: NSA under Reagan
declassified details of its history. A former “top-secret” history produced in 1999 contains a section on how President Ronald Reagan realized the value of NSA’s unique electronic intelligence collection capabilities, and he sharply increased the agency’s 5/22/13 from Washington Times Read more »
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House Judiciary Chairman: Senate Bill Won't Stop Illegal Immigration
Goodlatte added. “We need to ensure that we do not repeat them.” Goodlatte points to the amnesty that passed during President Ronald Reagan’s administration in 1986 as an example of a mistake that must not be repeated when attempting to achieve real immigration 5/22/13 from Big Government Read more »
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A testimony on the Common Core standards
rigorous standards in urban Catholic and public charter school classrooms. Fordham’s president, Chester Finn, served in the Reagan Administration, and its executive vice president, Mike Petrilli, served under George W. Bush. Both are also affiliated with the 5/22/13 from Thomas B. Fordham Institute Flypaper Blog Read more »
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Philip Klein: Obama-era scandals discredit big government
Revolution. Even Democratic President Bill Clinton was forced to declare in 1996 an end to the era of big government. "I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did 5/22/13 from Washington Examiner Read more »
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Ronald Reagan Stars in The Company Corporation’s New Radio Advertising...
companies (LLCs), today launched a new radio advertising campaign entitled “America Go for It,” featuring the voice of Ronald Reagan encouraging young Americans to “set out with your friends on the path of adventure and try to start up your own business.” 5/22/13 from PRWeb Read more »
