Nicholas Goldberg: Liz Cheney’s principles were showing at the Reagan library. So were her politics
I’m not a Republican and I don’t get misty-eyed at the memory of the GOP’s glorious achievements. So when I first arrived at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Wednesday, the images of the 40th president — in cowboy garb or eyeball-to-eyeball with Gorbachev or loving up Nancy or putting a golf ball in the Oval Office — left me cold. Reagan, in my view, was a dangerous ...
by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Jul 01, 2022
3 minutes
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I’m not a Republican and I don’t get misty-eyed at the memory of the GOP’s glorious achievements.
So when I first arrived at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Wednesday, the images of the 40th president — in cowboy garb or eyeball-to-eyeball with Gorbachev or loving up Nancy or putting a golf ball in the Oval Office — left me cold.
Reagan, in my view, was a dangerous Cold Warrior and archconservative whose distrust of government led him to unravel programs that had brought relief to millions of Americans.
But it’s a sign of
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