Ronald Reagan
Career
Hollywood Actor
California Governor
Ronald Reagan was the 33rd Governor of California from January 2, 1967 - January 6, 1975.
Student Protests
From Wikipedia [1]: In the 1960s, Edwin Pauley came to support Ronald Reagan, and was by far the Board of Regents' harshest critic of UC Berkeley student protesters.[2]
In 1965, Pauley was serving as a regent at the University of California, when anti-Vietnam war campus protests began to grow. At Pauley's request, CIA Director John McCone met with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on January 28 and Hoover agreed to leak to Pauley information about UC System President Clark Kerr. (See memo regarding McCone's request to meet with Hoover. McCone graduated from UC Berkeley in 1922, the year before Pauley.)
At that meeting, McCone told Hoover that Pauley was very upset about the "situation at Berkeley", and was "anxious to get a line on any persons who are communists or have communist associations, either on the faculty or in the student body." As soon as McCone left his office, Hoover phoned Los Angeles FBI chief Wesley Grapp, and ordered him to give Pauley anonymous memos on regents, faculty members, and students who were "causing trouble at Berkeley". Hoover admonished Grapp, "It must be impressed upon Mr. Pauley that this data is being furnished in strict confidence."[3]
Five days later (February 2) Grapp met with Pauley for two hours at his office in the Pauley Petroleum Building in Los Angeles. Grapp provided him information from FBI files on other regents, faculty, and students who were considered "ultra-liberal". The CIA and FBI worked in conjunction with Ronald Reagan, who sought to mount a "psychological warfare campaign" against the budding Free Speech Movement and anti-war sit-ins, including using tax-evasion and "any other available" charges in which the FBI agreed to assist. "This has been done in the past, and has worked quite successfully", Hoover noted.[4][5]
(This information was not made public until 2002, after a fifteen-year legal battle with the FBI that went all the way to the US Supreme Court, as a result of a FOIA request for an in-depth San Francisco Chronicle investigation. The FBI had claimed it needed to maintain secrecy to "protect law enforcement operations". The National Security Act of 1947 bars the CIA from engaging in domestic intelligence activities.)[6]
Student Loan Crisis
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan
https://newuniversity.org/2023/02/13/ronald-reagans-legacy-the-rise-of-student-loan-debt-in-america/
CIA Oil Politics
See: Edwin Pauley + George H.W. Bush#Zapata Petroleum
COINTELPRO
Upon becoming Governor of California, Reagan also became a UC Regent alongside Edwin Pauley. Pauley had been a Regent since 1940, and remained on the Board for the majority of Reagan's term as Governor. During the 1960s, Pauley had served as the UC Regent's chief liason with both the CIA (through his ties to George H.W. Bush) and the FBI, working closely with director J. Edgar Hoover. When Reagan took office, the Black Panther Party was a top counter-intelligence priority for the FBI.
Black Panther Party
During his first summer in office (July 1967), Ronald Reagan signed into law the Mulford Act, which was crafted with the express goal of disarming the Black Panther Party's community self-defense patrols in Oakland.[7]
By 1969, the Black Panther Party's newly launched and wildly successful Free Breakfast For Children program was feeding more poor children in California than the State Government.[8] FBI Director Hoover called the free breakfast program “potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for."[9]
Under pressure, the party pushed Ronald Reagan's administration to create a state-wide free breakfast program, which not replicated on a national level until 1975 by the USDA.[10]
Cowboy President
See also: Cowboy Mythology
Climate Denial
GHG Pollution
In his 1980 U.S. Presidential campaign, Reagan blamed trees/plants for 80-93% of nitrogen oxide pollution.[11][12][13][14]
Greenwashing
Republican Politics
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/seven-things-reagan-wont-mentioned-tonight-gops-debate/
3 Bush Administrations
Reagan's Vice President, George H.W. Bush, succeeded him as President from 1989-1992. The next republican president was his son, George W. Bush Jr..
Make America Great Again
Ronald Reagan's (less well-known) 1980 campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" was made infamous by Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Sources
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_W._Pauley#Informant_during_anti-war_protests
- ↑ Seth Rosenfeld (June 9, 2002). "Trouble on campus". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ↑ Rosenfeld, Seth (2002-06-09). "Trouble on campus". SFGate. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
- ↑ "Reagan, FBI, CIA tried to quash campus unrest". USA Today. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
- ↑ sfgate.com Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Rosenfeld, Seth; Writer, Chronicle Staff (2002-06-09). "Secret FBI files reveal covert activities at UC / Bureau's campus operations involved Reagan, CIA". SFGate. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
- ↑ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/black-panther-partys-free-breakfast-program-1969-1980/
- ↑ https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party
- ↑ Heynen, Nik (2009-04-22). "Bending the Bars of Empire from Every Ghetto for Survival: The Black Panther Party's Radical Antihunger Politics of Social Reproduction and Scale". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 99 (2): 406–422. doi:10.1080/00045600802683767. ISSN 0004-5608. S2CID 143823808.
- ↑ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/09/The-Sierra-Club-says-Ronald-Reagan-is-wrong-when/5945339912000/
- ↑ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/10/Environmentalists-Ronald-Reagan-is-just-plain-wrong/9036339998400/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170828143929/https://www.washingtonpost.com/web/20170828143929/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1980/08/17/reagan-spare-that-tree/fcb1657a-6987-44f3-86c4-89daa1409fb1/
- ↑ https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03032023/jimmy-carter-climate-change/