S8 Ep248: THE LEGACY OF THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR Colleague Max Boot. Boot reflects on Reagan's legacy, noting his "genial and aloof" personality rooted in childhood trauma. He discusses the superficial nature of Reagan's diaries, his economic record aided by Paul Vol
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm visiting with Max Booth, the author of a new biography of Ronald Reagan, his life and legend. |
| 0:09.0 | The late Reagan administration is troubled in all directions for foreign policy. |
| 0:15.0 | Domestic policy seems to be on overdrive. |
| 0:20.0 | We have Max mentions a number |
| 0:22.5 | of books that were popular in the 1980s. |
| 0:25.1 | I'd forgotten about them. |
| 0:27.6 | Less than zero. I've forgotten that was in 1980s. |
| 0:31.2 | And I mention all of that because we come to |
| 0:34.6 | the departure of Ronald Reagan from the White House. |
| 0:37.3 | I can remember seeing a video of the helicopter flying away. because we come to the departure of Ronald Reagan from the White House. |
| 0:41.5 | I can remember seeing a video of the helicopter flying away. |
| 0:46.4 | So I wanted to review some of his most famous statements in where they came from. |
| 0:48.1 | Honey, I forgot to duck. |
| 0:49.4 | Where did he get that, Max? |
| 0:51.2 | Did he make it up at the spot? |
| 0:57.1 | I think it was an old Hollywood movie line that he quoted at the exact right moment to Nancy Reagan and the one about... Actually, it wasn't a movie line. I think it was a boxing |
| 1:05.4 | line. It was Jack Dempsey. Some other box were the 1920s who said that after losing a fight. |
| 1:11.6 | And an ash heap of history. Was that Reagan original? |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, that was from the 1983 Westminster address. I think that was Reagan repurposing communist |
| 1:23.6 | rhetoric against the Soviet Union. |
| 1:26.6 | Yes, it magnified the expectations. |
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