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Whereas Obama Once Compared Himself to Reagan, Today It’s Nixon

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 06 2014

Back in 2008, Barack Obama brashly aspired to a Reagan-like “transformative” presidency: “I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not, and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like, you know, with all the excesses of the ‘60s and ‘70s and, you know, government had grown and grown but there wasn’t much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. And I think people just…

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