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REAGAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
Listing of YouTube clips from the Reagan Presidential Library
REAGAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
Listing of YouTube clips from the Reagan Presidential Library
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9RWtx8myQc
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Ronald Reagan was a consequential President of the United States.
From my perspective, he defeated President Carter in the Presidential election of 1980 based more on the power of his oratory than the strength of his platform.
Nixon, Ford and Carter had the US Presidency during the 1970s and all had the challenges of addressing a range of major issues. None of these challenges were easy.
Nixon, of course, had to resign in connection with the Watergate affair, but he also was being challenged by other geopolitical issues, not least of which was the Vietnam War. There was also the OPEC oil shock of 1973 which has, in my view, shaped the global economic landscape for the last five decades, and substantially degraded the influence of the United States over that time!
Ford served as a 'place-holder'. Carter proved ineffective and failed to 'more the needle' much to solve the major issues of the time. This opened an opportunity for Reagan to win the Presidential election in 1980
The Reagan platform was big on ideas but more bluster than substance. To the extent that there was substance it served a 'conservative' part of the electorate and set the stage for those with power and influence to 'win' while everyone else essentially were the losers and funded the winners.
The Reagan formulation for success of the USA changed the structure of the country in serious ways. For two decades post WWII the United States had a very strong economy ... according to the data of the time (see not below). But this finally ended with the OPEC oil shock of 1973. At the time, I wrote that this was tbe biggest economic event in all of history, and would change everything that had been considered economic norms!
I think I was right ... but I did not anticipate that the economics profession would generally fail to understand the change in economic dynamic ... or economic geography ... that was happening.
I cannot understand why it is that this Reagan policy formulation has been in play for half a century and embraced by almost all Republican conservatives. It is also surprising that progressive Democrats have completely failed to make the case that something better is possible. The good news is that the Biden/Harris administration has made a significant start to put in place some economic policy and legislation to invest in America's social, economic and environmental future ... but this good news is not 'breaking news' and most of the American populace has no significant knowledge of this progress!
And, of course, the media has been an abject failure when it comes to describing the economic changes that have been in progress since the 1980s ... not to mention the related social and environmental changes! Rather, it seems that the media has been co-opted to propagandize corporate messages that are nothing more than marketing. Why is it that the media has done little or nothing to explain how it is that the New York stock market has been at record high levels for most of the last three years (in the Biden/Harris administration) while the economic landscape for the majority of ordinary people in the United States has been challenging with essential price inflation out of control?
My formal education ended in the early 1960s ... almost 60 years ago, well before the Reagan economic initiatives were artticulated! Most of the people in positions of power today know little about the US economic ... and geo-political / geo-economic backstory pre-1980.
When I was a student at Cambridge in the UK I visited North America in the summers of 1960 and 1961. I was able to visit more than 40 States and Provinces in the USA and Canada and to visit almost all the steel mills in the two countries. It was an interesting experience! I was treated like a VIP in most of these big companies and got to learn an enormous amount in a very short period of time! What I did not learn or anticipate was that most of these plants that had existed for more than fifty years would be abandonned less than twenty years later!
The 'structure of industry' changed dramatically between the time I studied the subject at Cambridge and visited North America in the early 1960s to the period post 1980. The shape of the global economy changed from one where Europe and North America dominated to one where the Middle East (oil) and the Far East (manufacturing) became the major production drivers with Europe and North America the consumers and enabling investors!
The way the 'structure of industry' has changed over my adult lifetime explains a lot of how geopolitics has evolved. In the United States in the late 1960s I was purchasing gasoline for 27 cents a gallon. Four decades later the price is fluctuating in the range of $3.00 to $4.00 a gallon, something like 15 times the price! Clearly, this has changed the 'structure of industry' in a very fundamental way as well as the related 'Balance of Power' in every aspect of the global socio-enviro-economic system.
Most of education and current affairs commentary that I see has failed to take into consideration these massive changes. Part of this is because I mainly see English (including American) commentary and to some exent European commentary and little or nothing originating from and about the rest of the world.
I have had an interest in technical subjects since I was very young. I was about 8 years old when I found an old set of bound copies of Harmsworth Popular Science published in the 1890s and 1900s that my grandfather had collected. This became my introduction to engineering and technical matters ... which remain the critical foundation for almost all progress up until the present time. By the time I was at Cambridge in the late 1950s early 60s I had some historical framing of engineering and technical progress over the previous century and now, many decades later I have more historic framing of technical progress and the multiple impacts these are having on socio-enviro-economic progress. This analysis suggests that much of what goes as conventional wisdom is deeply flawed and will almost certaily prove problematic in the near future.
While I am very British ... very English in most every way ... I am aware of how 'British' is problematic in a lot of places. And for goood reason. While some ... indeed many ... aspects of the 'colonial' Nritish and colonial French world were problematic, it could well be that an ongoing 'colonial' type involvement would have been batter than the 'independence' models that have been implemented. To some extent this is what was encouraged with the 'Commonwealth' framing ... and with some modest success!
Peter Burgess
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