Thursday, January 21, 2010

Reagan Youth Conservatives: Rebels or Opportunists?

The year of the Reagan Revolution (1980) will be remembered for the appearance on the national scene of something never seen before: legions of politicized, energetic college students who were conservatives, the antithesis of the two pervious decades. The ideal of their youth craze was the election of the oldest president in American history. Enters Jack Abramoff, a college Republican leader in the Boston area! He had the reputation as one of the most innovative conservative leaders for his successful massive push for Reagan that shifted MA, the bailiwick of the Kennedys, Tip O’Neill & other Democratic leaders in Congress into the GOP column.


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