{"id":63,"date":"2004-06-16T23:06:16","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T23:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2004\/06\/16\/reagan_as_a_lea\/"},"modified":"2004-06-16T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T23:06:16","slug":"reagan_as_a_lea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Reagan as a leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might think this piece belongs over in my politics&rants blog – however that’s
\nmore for venting spleen than reasoned thought.<\/p>\n

No, reflections on leaders (political or otherwise) is always good fodder for
\nchriscurnow.com.<\/p>\n

This piece
\nabout Reagan<\/a> is the most reasoned and balanced review of his presidency
\nthat I’ve read to date.<\/p>\n\n\n

\nHow about this?<\/strong>
\n"One can argue the most significant difference between RR and W is
\nthat Reagan campaigned to the Right, but governed pragmatically from the
\ncenter. Contending with a Democratic Congress forced that, to some degree.
\nBush, on the other hand, ran on a Centrist platform — but governed from
\nthe hard right. With a Republican Congress, he should be able to enact his
\nown agenda — yet seems to be having more trouble with Congress than Reagan
\ndid. <\/font> "<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The article has a lot of stuff you won’t understand if you’re not American
\nbut it’s a good read nevertheless.<\/p>\n

I had never thought all that greatly of Reagan. I guess I glibbly summed him
\nup as a B-grade actor and a B-grade president (maybe not even that).
\nHowever all the stuff that has been written about him this week has made me
\nthink a lot about leadership again. We are passionate here about leadership
\nas a quality that comes from an inner strength – not a collection of management
\ntheories. Maybe Reagan had that inner strength. Maybe seeing the world in simple
\nterms enabled him to lead for a wider range of people. I had never even imagined
\nbefore that there might be such a thing as "Reagan Democrats".<\/p>\n

Regardless, I could never see Reagan as a person of great intellect. I haven’t
\nread enough this last couple of weeks to have any more or less evidence to support
\nthis theory. However it does seem that people from all sides of politics are
\nwilling to give him credit in retrospect as one of the better Presidents.<\/p>\n

Interesting thought that. What about the great leader who is not a great thinker.
\nI have never thought about this. I have always thought the two go together.
\nBut maybe not.<\/p>\n

\nI would love to hear other thoughts on this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might think this piece belongs over in my politics&rants blog – however that’s more for venting spleen than reasoned thought. No, reflections on leaders (political or otherwise) is always good fodder for chriscurnow.com. This piece about Reagan is the most reasoned and balanced review of his presidency that I’ve read to date. How about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}