Jan 26, 2016 ... It's worth remembering, the same nation Iran in 1981 released our hostages the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.” The idea that the Iranians feared Reagan's foreign policy philosophy has been around for a while. In 2012, our colleagues at PolitiFact fact-checked then-presidential candidate Mitt ...
Reagan did many things; this wasn't one of them. Mitt Romney · Ronald Reagan's philosophy of "peace through strength" is why "the Iranians released the hostages on the same day and at the same hour that Reagan was sworn in." — PolitiFact National on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012. Pants on Fire! No mentions? Try six.
This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and ...
The Iran hostage crisis came to end on January 20, 1981—the same day that Reagan delivered his inaugural address. After 444 ... Making good on his campaign promise to promote peace through strength, he increased defense spending in inflation-adjusted dollars by 35 percent over the course of his eight years in office.
Reagan's many successes as president owed much to his actor's instincts and much to the popular pessimism that he inherited and that his sunny temperament helped at least temporarily to dispel. The same factors contributed as well to the many shortcomings of his administration: its tendency to emphasize style over ...
Ronald Reagan’s philosophy of "peace through strength" is why "the Iranians released the hostages on the same day and at the same hour that Reagan was sworn in."