{"id":60337,"date":"2019-11-06T17:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=60337"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:46:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:46:37","slug":"ronald-reagan","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/ronald-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Ronald Reagan<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"2838428fce98dbcbe9a3c8e0d6a5476f\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR55cc2ebf8945e820fcd518a77f0473b4\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR55cc2ebf8945e820fcd518a77f0473b4\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTR55cc2ebf8945e820fcd518a77f0473b4\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60337?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR55cc2ebf8945e820fcd518a77f0473b4&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60337?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR55cc2ebf8945e820fcd518a77f0473b4\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: January 21, 2020<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The Virginia Partners Bank Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives, Ronald Reagan\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/386753773?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_Reagan-book-cover-194x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_Reagan-book-cover-194x300.jpg 194w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_Reagan-book-cover.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><p>Forty years ago, few thought Reagan would be a great President, or even President at all. So much so that many, even from within his own party, sought to destroy his 1980 campaign from its earliest days. Make no mistake about it; the GOP establishment loathed Reagan, hated Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d tried in 1968, losing the Republican nomination to Richard Nixon. He narrowly lost to Gerald Ford in 1976. But by 1980, he was the marginal frontrunner for the nomination, but nearly lost to Ambassador George Bush. Reagan righted his campaign, got focused, and charged to the nomination, at long last.<\/p>\n<p>Winning the 1980 GOP nomination, however, was only the first step. He then had to face the juggernaut of incumbent President Jimmy Carter. By common agreement, Carter was a mediocre President and was presiding over a poor economy and an even worse foreign policy -- but as a fierce campaigner, he was without peer.<\/p>\n<p>For most of the fall, 1980 campaign, Carter maintained a lead over Reagan. Americans did not like to kick elected Presidents out of office, only doing so in 1912 (which was anomalous with William Howard Taft, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson all running) and 1932, when in the face of the terrible Great Depression, FDR defeated the hapless Herbert Hoover. Thus the odds were stacked against Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>But in the one and only debate, in Cleveland, Reagan zinged Carter with his immortal line, \u201cAre you better off than you were four years ago?\u201d One week later, Reagan won one of the largest landslide elections in history and in so doing, changed history.<\/p>\n<p>The era of Reagan had begun. Without guile, without hatred, and without deception, Reaganism would prove to be the remedy America and the world needed forty years ago -- but whose legacy still casts a long shadow over all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Shirley will analyze the Reagan Presidency and its legacy, including comparisons with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Craig Shirley<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan21_Craig-Shirley-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan21_Craig-Shirley-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan21_Craig-Shirley-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan21_Craig-Shirley-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Craig Shirley is the author of four bestsellers on former U.S. president Ronald Reagan \u2013<cite>Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (2014),<\/cite> <cite>Reagan\u2019s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All (2005),<\/cite> <cite>Last Act: The Final Years and emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan (2015),<\/cite> and <cite>Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980 (2017). <\/cite> He is also the author of the authorized biography of the revolutionary life and times of Newt Gingrich, <cite>Citizen Newt (2017).<\/cite> His book <cite>December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World (2011)<\/cite> appeared multiple times on the <cite>New York Times<\/cite>bestselling list in December 2011 and January 2012, while <cite>Last Act<\/cite> was named best narrative in the non-fiction category by USA Book News for 2015. <cite>The London Telegraph<\/cite> called Shirley as \u201cthe best of the Reagan biographers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[592],"class_list":{"0":"post-60337","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-592","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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