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Did Reagan's Small-Gov't Goals Fall Short? - Steven Hayward

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2009 · News & Politics

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Author Steven Hayward argues Ronald Reagan did not entirely succeed in his goal to reform government at the constitutional level. He puts forward what a modern constitutional movement might look like today.

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Discussing his new book, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, Hayward asserts that Ronald Reagan was one of the most consequential presidents in American history.

In foreign affairs, he presents Reagan as possessing unique insights into issues that had confounded the policy establishment for decades and as willing to battle not only with the Democratic opposition but also with the conventional reflexes of much of his own party and staff. 

Finally, Hayward argues that, "if Reagan failed in a permanent alignment the way Roosevelt did with the New Deal, it was because the Republican Party, its successors, and even Reagan himself were not a full-fledged constitutional movement." - Hoover Institution

Steven F. Hayward writes on a wide range of public policy issues. He is the coauthor of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators; the producer and host of "An Inconvenient Truth . . . or Convenient Fiction?," a rebuttal to Al Gore's documentary; and the author of many books on environmental topics.

He has written biographies of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and of Winston Churchill. Mr. Hayward is also a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

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