Kim Phillips-Fein

Kim Phillips-Fein teaches at New York University.

Be Dull, Mr President: Remembering Reagan

Kim Phillips-Fein, 19 October 2006

The night before Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as president, he made sure that he got a good night’s sleep, carefully instructing his aides not to wake him until 8 a.m. Jimmy Carter, meanwhile, about to step down from office, had been awake for 48 hours, supervising the negotiations over the release of American hostages in Tehran. In the early hours of the morning on Inauguration Day,...

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