Reagan Survived The Iran-contra Scandal Because The

An American-led Overthrow Of Saddam Hussein - And The Replacement Of The Radical Baathist Dictatorship With A New Government More Closely Aligned With The United States Would Put America More Wholly In Charge Of The Region Than Any Power Since The Ottomans, Or Maybe Even The Romans.

That Is The Way Successful Countries, And Canada Has Been One Of The Most Successful Countries Over The Past Quarter Century, They Operate. That When You Win, You Win Within Limits, When You Lose, You Accept The Outcome.

I Don't Think That Disasters Have To Be Spectacular. They Can Be A Slow Corrosion.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America And Betrayed The Reagan Legacy.

I Always Believed As A Speechwriter That If You Could Persuade The President To Commit Himself To Certain Words, He Would Feel Himself Committed To The Ideas That Underlay Those Words. And The Big Shock To Me Has Been That Although The President Said The Words, He Just Did Not Absorb The Ideas. And That Is The Root Of, Maybe, Everything.