# Ronald Reagan's Legacy: Your Thoughts

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 20, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronald-reagans-legacy-your-thoughts/568379 "2011-01-20T21:27:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronald-reagans-legacy-your-thoughts/568379/281 "2011-02-12T12:29:30Z")

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Elendil’s Heir presents an excellent case in #266 above.

Still the deciding argument seems to be Reagan’s manner - his presence. So, was Reagan just a front for man Peggy Noonan? Perhaps she could have done the same for a Gregory Peck, Arthur Godfrey, Herb Schriner or Paul Harvey.

When you draw the curtain aside, the real Republican icon is Peggy Noonan.

Crane

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronald-reagans-legacy-your-thoughts/568379/282 "2011-02-12T14:47:17Z")

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> [@furt](#):
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> It’s forgotten now, because inflation hasn’t been an issue in 30 years, but it was a huge problem at the time, and Reagan played a role in ending it.

Give Paul Volcker credit for that (and Carter credit for selecting him to head the Fed). The role Reagan played was to renominate him after the groundwork had been done.\

As the “great man” reminded us, “Facts are stupid things.”

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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronald-reagans-legacy-your-thoughts/568379/283 "2011-02-12T20:11:33Z")

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> Give Paul Volcker credit for that (and Carter credit for selecting him to head the Fed). The role Reagan played was to renominate him after the groundwork had been done. (snip)

And to fire him when he disagreed with the degree of financial deregulation the Reagan administraton wanted.

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