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The Soviets and Reagan’s PATCO strike
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The Soviets and Reagan’s PATCO strike

Mar 1, 2015
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Saturday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker repeated a claim that has become a truism among a certain genre of conservatives in recent years:

Walker contended that “the most significant foreign policy decision of my lifetime” was then-President Ronald Reagan’s move to bust a 1981 strike of air traffic controllers, firing some 11,000 of them.

“It sent a mess…

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