# Reagan, just past his 100th Birthday. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 8, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-just-past-his-100th-birthday/570663 "2011-02-08T16:46:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-just-past-his-100th-birthday/570663/21 "2011-02-09T03:02:43Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > **Reagan, just past his 100th birthday** reads to me in the same style as “Shaka, when the walls fell”. 🙂 > > Was that intentional? Iron Eyes Cody, his face wet. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-just-past-his-100th-birthday/570663/22 "2011-02-09T03:45:08Z")
“In the heat of a political lifetime, he innocently squirrels away tidbits of misinformation and then, sometimes years later, casually drops them into his public discourse, like gum balls in a quiche.” - Lucy Howard ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-just-past-his-100th-birthday/570663/23 "2011-02-09T10:11:54Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Boy I hope so, but Carter really was terrible. Largely as he could not control his own party. Seriously?? You hope that a jaded embrace of dishonesty is a persistent part of America’s national identity? Damn, that’s fucked up, right there. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-just-past-his-100th-birthday/570663/24 "2011-02-09T14:48:54Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Seriously?? You hope that a jaded embrace of dishonesty is a persistent part of America’s national identity? Damn, that’s fucked up, right there. No, I hope things start getting better with younger generations completely removed from Watergate. > [@](#): > > Maybe Obama will be held to a higher standard in 2012, and his successors to a higher standard still. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-just-past-his-100th-birthday/570663/25 "2011-02-10T00:32:11Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Well as explained in the HBO documentary, he had met with the hostages families and decided to do something to help free them. He worked with Iran [to keep them captive](http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=irancontraaffair&irancontraaffair_key_figures=irancontraaffair_william_casey) there until at least after the election. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-just-past-his-100th-birthday/570663/26 "2011-02-10T00:33:12Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Boy I hope so, but Carter really was terrible. Largely as he could not control his own party. Funny how democracy works sometimes, innit? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-just-past-his-100th-birthday/570663.md?page=1)