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A Lesson From the Iran Hostage Crisis, Only a Few Decades Late

I've never doubted that the Reagan people played some kind of hocus-pocus with the country's foreign policy.

More than once on this blog, I've told about how I was in Washington in January of 1981, covering the events surrounding the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan for the late, lamented Boston Phoenix. As it turned out, I wound up ...

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The Thing We All Knew Finally Proved True: Reagan-Iran Edition

A recent report has confirmed the long-whispered rumor that Reagan did a deal with Iran to sink Carter's re-election.

My first major, ongoing assignment at the Boston Phoenix (may its memory be a blessing) was the 1980 presidential election, specifically the Republican half. It had the potential to be extraordinarily weird: alternative liberal weekly covers campaign that ultimately produced President Ronald ...

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