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The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project's goal is to get something—anything—named for Reagan in each of the more than 3,100 U.S. counties. Obama? Well, there are some schools and a shaved ice treat.
As he embarks on the final two years of his first term, President Obama is spending time studying a surprising subject: Ronald Reagan. But let’s be honest. A side-by-side comparison shows that ...
To understand how Barack Obama sees himself and his presidency, don’t look to Franklin Roosevelt or Abraham Lincoln. Obama’s role model is Ronald Reagan — just as Obama told us before he was ...
During his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama drew a telling comparison between himself and former Republican President Ronald Reagan. Said Obama: "I don't want to present myself as some ...
Not Barack Obama. As he faces tough times—economically and politically—I am told that he and his advisers are turning to an unusual source for inspiration: Ronald Reagan. Looking back, it ...
President Obama wishes he were the Reagan of the Left. He has expressed the sentiment many times. What he doesn’t understand is that there were two Ronald Reagans. There is only one Barack Obama ...
At a moment centrists are battling progressives for control of the Democratic Party, Mamdani’s sudden stardom is all the buzz ...
While Obama is no Ronald Reagan, he can be rationally compared to FDR – but only to the very worst of FDR. Early on in his First Term, Obama met with a group of historians who love activist and ...
President Barack Obama loves to quote GOP hero Ronald Reagan to make points about his current Republican opponents and other issues. Here’s a look at how he’s used the words of the 40th president.
There are parallels to be drawn between Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan, though they are very different ideologically. Getty Images hide caption ...
In a hypothetical matchup, Barack Obama beat Ronald Reagan, 57 percent to 43 percent, according to a new poll. Above left, Reagan speaks in 1983 about Beirut, where a suicide bomber destroyed a ...
Former Presidents Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, and President Biden The respondents were asked to rank presidents on a scale of 0-100, with 0 being a failure, 50 being average and ...