Reagan’s 1968 Dress Rehearsal: Ike, RFK, and Reagan’s
Emergence as a World Statesman is an inspiring never-before-told
history of how Ronald Reagan began to restore pride in America when he first
ran for president in the late 1960s. Author and historian, Gene Kopelson’s
tireless research uncovered findings based upon never-before-analyzed critical
archives. Against the backdrop history
of Reagan’s first campaign for the presidency, it can now be revealed that
behind the scenes, none other than former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was
Ronald Reagan’s hidden political mentor.
Assassinations of the ‘60s
As
assassin John Hinckley is released this summer of 2016, thoughts turn not only
to the failed attempt on President Reagan's life in 1981, but also to the
tumultuous spring of 1968 when both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F.
Kennedy were assassinated. At that time, Ronald Reagan was on his first quest
for the presidency, a story never told before. RFK was Reagan's major political
foe during this era, and author Gene Kopelson discusses the relationship
between Reagan and RFK, especially how Reagan defeated RFK at an international
debate on Vietnam and thus was seen as a terrific GOP presidential candidate
against RFK or Lyndon Johnson.
Ronald Reagan says "There you go
again" to Hillary Clinton
"There
you again" was candidate Reagan's famous 1980 debate quote against Jimmy
Carter; but Ronald Reagan had been seeing through the Democrats' plans for
bigger government for decades. Indeed, Reagan
first sought the presidency in 1968. And on those multiple campaign
swings, he decried the loss of individual freedom as the Democrats sought
bigger and bigger government. At that time, it was Lyndon Johnson's "Great
Society" and now, in 2016, there are the same failed policies being handed
from President Obama to Hillary Clinton.
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