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A thought provoking look inside the Reagan White House
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When he assumed the presidency, Ronald Reagan knew what had to be done to turn the country around after four years of ruinous Democrat rule. He also knew that in order to do it, he would have to find the best qualified men and women in the nation to carry out his policies. One of the men he selected was Donald Regan, the son of an Irish policeman, who had attended Harvard on a scholarship, served in the Marine Corp during World War II, and worked his way up through the ranks to become Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch. By the time Reagan became president, Donald Regan was a wealthy man contemplating a quiet retirement. Instead, he came aboard and became Secretary of the Treasury in Ronald Reagan's first term and, upon Reagan's re-election, his Chief of Staff. In this book, Regan takes us behind the scenes in the Reagan White House and lets us follow the action from the beginning of Reagan's administration up to the time of his resignation.
It is an insightful story told by a man who was there. Reading it, one gets the impression that Regan has never been given the credit he deserves for his contributions to the nation's economic recovery as Secretary of the Treasury. At the same time, one senses that Donald Regan may have been seriously misjudged by the reporters with whom he was forced to interact as Chief of Staff and, partly because of his so called "abrasive" personality, was harshly treated by the news media. Looking at things from the inside, rather than the outside, it also seems likely that Regan, in the public mind, was held responsible during the Iran/Contra Affair for things of which he had no knowledge and over which he had no control or authority.
In the end, Regan was forced to resign, and his resignation was accomplished in such a manner as to embarrass Regan and detract from what should have been an exemplary reputation. The impression one gets from this sad end is that it came about not because of anything Regan had done during the Iran/Contra Affair or because of his presumed abrasive personality, or even because he was constantly under attack by the press. In my view, it happened [in the way it did] simply because Ronald Reagan had been absolutely convinced that Donald Regan had committed the one unpardonable sin in Reagan's eyes. He had rebuffed and insulted Nancy Reagan and perhaps other members of the Reagan family.
This is an in-depth and enlightening study of the inner-workings of the Reagan White House, and since it is based on the meticulous notes kept by Donald Regan while part of that administration it will be an invaluable resource for future generations of historians. The strangest and most interesting thing, to me, about this book, however, is that despite the way in which he was (essentially) fired and in light of the fact that Reagan and Regan never met or spoke again; Donald Regan seemed to have an extremely difficult time saying anything bad about Ronald Reagan.
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