Reagan at the Crossroads

Event Details

Columnist of the Washington Post speaks of Ronald Reagan as a president in his sixth year in office and the way Reagan communicates. The speaker describes Reagan's policy position on various issues in 1968 and gives an explanation for his belief that President Reagan is hard to understand. He addresses formative experiences that, he believes, explain several of Reagan's actions and impulses, and the economy's relationship to the image of Reagan. The speaker also discusses Reagan's ability to project an image of leadership and his strategies of communication. During the questioning time, he addresses Reagan's changing relationship to some of his staff and Cabinet members, relationship between Reagan's realism and U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, Reagan's support in Congress, his policy in the Middle East, and the difference in the images of Carter and Reagan, among other issues.