caa a22 4500 386366411 CHVBK 20180307111935.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021875800003777 doi S0021875800003777 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021875800003777 Mervin David David Mervin is Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England. Ronald Reagan's Place in History [Elektronische Daten] [David Mervin] The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tip O'Neill, has observed "I hate to say it about such an agreeable man, but it was sinful that Ronald Reagan ever became President. I've known every president since Harry Truman and there's no question in my mind that [Reagan] was the worst.” This is a severe indictment by a highly qualified observer. Nevertheless it is an opinion that will be challenged here. It will be argued in this article that far from being the "worst” of recent presidents Ronald Reagan, despite his failings, was more effective in office than most who have held the position in the last fifty years. However, as a preliminary to our analysis it may be useful to summarize the apparently formidable case against Reagan. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/2(1989-08), 269-286 0021-8758 23:2<269 1989 23 AMS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800003777 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800003777 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mervin David David Mervin is Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/2(1989-08), 269-286 0021-8758 23:2<269 1989 23 AMS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge