"Happy Memorial Day, Mr. Kissinger"

[Doug Henwood]

Carrol Cox wrote:

>The main trouble with giving Reagan billing is that he seemed mostly to
>be dotting Carter's i's and crossing Carter's t's. I tend to think of
>1977-88 as the Carter Administration.

C'mon, Carrol, Carter was bad, but Reagan was a lot worse. PATCO. 
Star Wars. Libyan hit squads. Central America. The Uruguay round. 
Supply side lunacy. Carter did/would have done milder versions of 
these things, or not at all. As political figures, Carter was a joke, 
and Reagan did a lot to change the world.

Doug