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The Michael Steele Podcast

Reagan's Life And Legacy (with Max Boot)

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with bestselling author, historian, and policy analyst Max Boot about his latest book, "Reagan: His Life And Legend." The two discuss how Ronald Reagan helped shape the GOP, what made him a successful leader, and why he changed political parties.

Check out the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Life-Legend-Max-Boot/dp/0871409445

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In 1986, as president, he signed an immigration bill that legalized millions of undocumented immigrants,

0:06.0

what Republicans the day would call an amnesty bill.

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And of course, his crowning achievement as president, after a lifetime as an anti-stanch anti-communist,

0:16.4

he wound up spending his second term as president

0:19.4

working with the world's leading communist Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War and

0:24.1

reform the Soviet Union even at a time and a lot of conservatives said that he

0:27.9

was being snookered that that Gorbachev was taking him for a ride. Hey folks,

0:33.0

Hey folks,

0:37.0

welcome to the Michael Steele podcast.

0:42.0

It's always a pleasure when I have you in the

0:43.8

house here at the podcast. If you like our podcast of course you know what to do you're

0:49.1

going to tell a friend and share it and give us a review on Apple podcast. We love it when you do that. Check us out on

0:54.5

Twitter at Steele underscore podcast follow me at Michael Steele and of course this

1:01.3

podcast is brought to you by the Bulwork network.

1:05.0

Follow them on social media at Bulwork online and I'm very proud to be a part of that.

1:10.0

So I'm excited today to have someone that I've admired and followed his work and his writing a long time.

1:18.4

Max Booth, he's a best-selling author, historian, and policy analyst.

1:25.0

He's a columnist for the Washington Post,

1:26.8

a Global Affairs analyst for CNN.

1:29.9

And the Gene J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on

1:35.1

Formulations. He is the author of the New York Times Best Sellers The Road Not Taken,

1:41.1

Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam, and his latest book,

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