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The GOP loves to praise Reagan and paint him as a good, honest fellow while condemning Obama. Well, let's look at Reagan's record:

 

But the record is still there and it still looks very corrupt.

How many officials of the Obama administration have been convicted of crimes?

 

ROFL So you criticize from ignorance and are too lazy to do your own research. Ok, try these:

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Iran-Contra Affair[edit]
Main article: Iran Contra Affair
The most well-known and politically damaging of the scandals came to light in November 1986, when Ronald Reagan conceded that the United States had sold weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran, as part of a largely unsuccessful effort to secure the release of six U.S. citizens being held hostage in Lebanon. It was also disclosed that some of the money from the arms deal with Iran had been covertly and illegally funneled into a fund to aid the right-wing Contras counter-revolutionary groups seeking to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The Iran-contra scandal as it became known, did serious damage to the Reagan presidency. The investigations were effectively halted when President George H. W. Bush (Reagan's vice president) pardoned Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger before his trial began.[2]

Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense, was pardoned before trial produced by George H. W. Bush
Elliott Abrams agreed to cooperate with investigators and in return was allowed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges instead of facing possible felony indictments. He was sentenced to two years probation and one hundred hours of community service. He was also pardoned by Bush on December 24, 1992 along with five other former Reagan Administration officials who had been implicated in connection with Iran-Contra.[3]
National Security Advisor Robert C. McFarlane, pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors and was sentenced to two years probation and 200 hours of community service and was ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.[3] He was also pardoned by Bush.
Alan D. Fiers was the Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's Central American Task Force. He pleaded guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information from Congress and was sentenced to one year of probation and one hundred hours of community service. He was also pardoned by Bush.[3][4]
Richard R. Miller - Partner with Oliver North in IBC, an Office of Public Diplomacy front group, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States.[3][5]
Clair George was Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's Division of Covert Operations under President Reagan. George was convicted of lying to two congressional committees in 1986. He was pardoned by Bush.[3][4][6]
Richard Secord was indicted on nine felony counts of lying to Congress and pleaded guilty to a felony charge of lying to Congress.[3][7]
Thomas G. Clines was convicted of four counts of tax-related offenses for failing to report income from the Iran/Contra operations.[3][8]
Carl R. Channel - Office of Public Diplomacy, partner in International Business- first person convicted in the Iran/Contra scandal, pleaded guilty of one count of defrauding the United States[3][5]
John Poindexter, Reagan's national security advisor, was found guilty of five criminal counts including lying to Congress, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. His conviction was later overturned on grounds that he did not receive a fair trial (the prosecution may have been influenced by his immunized testimony in front of Congress.)[3][9]
Oliver North was indicted on sixteen charges in the Iran/Contra affair and found guilty of three - aiding and abetting obstruction of Congress, shredding or altering official documents and accepting a gratuity. His convictions were later overturned on the grounds that his immunized testimony had tainted his trial.[3][10]
Duane R. Clarridge (US Republican Party) also pardoned before trial by Bush
Albert Hakim pleaded guilty to supplementing the salary of North
Joseph F. Fernandez indicted on four counts of obstruction and false statements; case dismissed when Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh refused to declassify information needed for his defense
Department of Housing and Urban Development grant rigging[edit]
The HUD rigging scandal occurred when Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Samuel Pierce and his associates rigged low income housing bids to favor Republican contributors to Reagan's campaign as well as rewarding Republican lobbyists such as James G. Watt Secretary of the Interior.[11] Sixteen convictions were eventually handed down,[12] including the following:

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James Watt
James Watt, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior was indicted on 24 felony counts and pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor. He was sentenced to five years probation, and ordered to pay a $5000 fine.[13]
Phillip D. Winn - Assistant HUD Secretary. Pleaded guilty to one count of scheming to give illegal gratuities.;[14] pardoned by President Bill Clinton, Nov., 2000[15]
Thomas Demery - Assistant HUD Secretary - pleaded guilty to steering HUD subsidies to politically connected donors. Found guilty of bribery and obstruction of justice[14]
Deborah Gore Dean - executive assistant to Secretary Pierce - indicted on thirteen counts, three counts of conspiracy, one count of accepting an illegal gratuity, four counts of perjury, and five counts of concealing articles. She was convicted on twelve. She appealed and prevailed on several counts but the convictions for conspiracy remained.[14]
Joseph A. Strauss, (R) Special Assistant to the Secretary of HUD, convicted for accepting payments to favor Puerto Rican land developers in receiving HUD funding.[16]
Silvio D. DeBartolomeis convicted of perjury and bribery.[14]
Catalina Vasquez Villalpando, the Treasurer of the United States from 1989 to 1993[17]
Secretary Pierce, the "central person" in the scandal, was not charged because he made "full and public written acceptance of responsibility."[17]

Retired Federal Judge Arlin M. Adams served as independent counsel in the first five years of the prosecution, through 1995.[14] and Larry Thompson completed the work 1995-98.[17]

Lobbying scandal[edit]
When an administration staff member leaves office, federal law governs how quickly one can begin a lobbying career.

Michael Deaver, Reagan’s Chief of Staff, was convicted of lying to both a congressional committee and to a federal grand jury about his lobbying activities after he left the government. He received three years probation and was fined $100,000 after being convicted for lying to a congressional subcommittee.[18]
Lyn Nofziger Reagan's Press Secretary was convicted on charges of illegal lobbying after leaving government service in Wedtech scandal. His conviction was later overturned.[19]
EPA scandals[edit]
A number of scandals occurred at the Environmental Protection Agency during the Reagan Administration. Over twenty high-level EPA employees were removed from office during Reagan's first three years as president.[20] Additionally, several Agency officials resigned amidst a variety of charges, ranging from being unduly influenced by industry groups to rewarding or punishing employees based on their political beliefs.[21] Sewergate, the most prominent EPA scandal during this period, involved the targeted release of Superfund grants to enhance the election prospects of local officials aligned with the Republican Party.

Rita Lavelle, an administrator at the EPA, misused Superfund monies and was convicted of perjury. She served three months in prison, was fined $10,000 and given five years probation.[22]
Anne Gorsuch Burford, the controversial head of the EPA. Burford, citing "Executive Privilege," refused to turn over Superfund records to Congress.[23] She was found in Contempt, whereupon she resigned.
Inslaw Affair[edit]
Inslaw Affair (1985-1994+); a protracted legal case that alleged that top-level officials of President Ronald Reagan's (R) Department of Justice were involved in software piracy of the Promis program from Inslaw Inc. forcing it into bankruptcy and then failed to appoint an independent counsel to investigate it.[24]
D. Lowell Jensen, Deputy Attorney General was held in Contempt of Congress.[25]
C. Madison Brewer A high ranking Justice Department official was held in Contempt of Congress.[25]
Attorney General Edwin Meese (R) refused to investigate the matter. His successor Attorney General Dick Thornburgh (R) also refused to investigate.[26] They were succeeded by Attorney General William P. Barr (R) who also refused to investigate the matter. No charges were ever filed.[27]

Savings & loan crisis[edit]
Savings and loan crisis in which 747 institutions failed and had to be rescued with $160 billion in taxpayer dollars.[28] Reagan's "elimination of loopholes" in the tax code included the elimination of the "passive loss" provisions that subsidized rental housing. Because this was removed retroactively, it bankrupted many real estate developments which used this tax break as a premise, which in turn bankrupted 747 Savings and Loans, many of whom were operating more or less as banks, thus requiring the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to cover their debts and losses with tax payer money. This with some other "deregulation" policies, ultimately led to the largest political and financial scandal in U.S. history to that date, the savings and loan crisis. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around $150 billion, about $125 billion of which was directly subsidized by the U.S. government, which further increased the large budget deficits of the early 1990s. See Keating Five.
As an indication of this scandal's size, Martin Mayer wrote at the time, "The theft from the taxpayer by the community that fattened on the growth of the savings and loan (S&L) industry in the 1980s is the worst public scandal in American history. Teapot Dome in the Harding administration and the Credit Mobilier in the times of Ulysses S. Grant have been taken as the ultimate horror stories of capitalist democracy gone to seed. Measuring by money, [or] by the misallocation of national resources... the S&L outrage makes Teapot Dome and Credit Mobilier seem minor episodes." [29]

Economist John Kenneth Galbraith called it "the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance and larceny of all time."[30]

Debategate[edit]
Main article: Debategate
Debategate refers to a scandal affecting the administration of Ronald Reagan; it involved the final days of the 1980 presidential election and briefing papers that were to have been used by President Jimmy Carter in preparation for the October 28, 1980, debate with Reagan had somehow been acquired by Reagan's team. This fact was not divulged to the public until late June 1983, after Laurence Barrett published Gambling With History: Reagan in the White House, an in-depth account of the Reagan administration's first two years.

James Baker swore under oath that he had received the briefing book from William Casey, Reagan's campaign manager, but Casey vehemently denied this. The matter was never resolved as both the FBI and a congressional subcommittee failed to determine how or through whom the briefing book came to the Reagan campaign.[31]

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Bro wpe, thank you for your post. I appreciate it.

I am retired, have been for 20 years. I do a lot of online reading as well as reading books every day. My goal this year is to read 52 books by the end of December. Currently I am 8 books ahead of schedule. I love to read, love to learn and am not afraid of information. I fear some are fearful of learning new things as it might force them to give up long held, long loved ideas and beliefs. I see life as a journey of discovery and change. To put it one way, I climb a mountain seeking truth and when I read the top what do I find? More mountains to climb. It never ends.

I now live in a continuing care retirement community. While I do go to exercise classes every day I do have quite a lot of time to read, research and think. There are those on the BB who refuse to believe me, but I was a registered Republican for many years. I finally had to leave that party when it moved so far right and adopted their Southern Policy, which, to me, was and is a racist policy. I am not happy about much in the Democratic Party, but to me they are more interested in helping the poor, the ill, the elderly and children where as, to me, the GOP is interested in corporate profits and protecting the rich at the expense of the poor. You may or may not agree with me, but that is my perception.

I ran an engineering/communications company library for 26 years. My entire adult like, save 4 years, was researching information. I also was a freelance indexer, indexes in the back of books, for over 25 years and occasionally will index a book gratis for a friend or the friend of a friend. The majority of those books were medical books, some in computer programming, some in computer languages as well as several editions of the National Electric Code.

In other words, I have spent my adult life dealing in finding and organizing information. It has been fun and informative.

To me neither party has a leg to stand on morally concerning abortion and as I am not a one issue voter I do not let that issue determine my vote. And, yes I am against abortion. There are folk for whom this is the only issue in life.

Concerning this tread I remember the Reagan years and remember the scandals that surrounded his administration. The record is there for all to see. Many myths have been promoted concerning him and his years in office. Most are false, but are widely accepted as truth. I do believe in time, in the historical sense of time ... a hundred or two hundred years, that historians will judge him harshly. I was a Reagan supporter at one time, but the scandals and his policies that harmed the average American drove me away from supporting him. Did he do wrong in everything he did. No. Did he do right in everything he did? No. He was human just like all presidents and he did some good things and some bad. Overall, as you probably surmise by now, I feel he did more wrong than right.

Life and issues are not as simply as many believe.

Again, thanks for your post.