At the end of my great graphing frenzy, I had a lot more generated along the way that I didn’t post. Maybe I’ll post them as an aside for a reference later. Some of them are pretty interesting. But there were two that I thought I’d put up as a closing parenthesis.
Notice that Reagan and Bush I spent more than Bush II spent on his two wars. Reagan’s supporters claimed that all that spending forced the end of the Cold War – "We outspent them." Most of us think Communism fell because it didn’t work. If anything brought it to a close, it wasn’t Reagan’s spending, it was the early tools of the information age – phones, fax machines, email – communication over and around the "iron curtain." But I wanted to end with at least one thing positive about Ronald Reagan’s time in grade…
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