I expected to hear more than I did in response to my memoir, because I spelled out how difficult it is for a presidential appointee to actually support the policy of the President.  https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/23/my-time-in-the-reagan-administration/ 

Then it occurred to me that the Reagan administration was a long time ago, 1981-1988. President Reagan's term ended 37 years ago.  So an American 50 years old today was 13 years old when Reagan's second term ended.  He was 5 years old when Reagan was elected president. A 50 year old American never experienced the Reagan administration. A 60 year old American was only 15 when Reagan took office. The vast majority of Americans alive today know nothing of the Reagan administration except the accounts of the presstitute media and historians grinding ideological axes.  Yet, somehow, Americans say they miss Reagan, the last American president.  

With Trump's first 100 days behind us,  MAGA Americans are touting his successes and the Democrats are multiplying his "failures."  

Let me tell you about a real successful president–Ronald Reagan–Perhaps the only successful president in the 20th century. Reagan had two major successes.  I know because I was part of them.  Reagan cured stagflation–the simultaneous rise of inflation and unemployment– with his supply-side policy, and he ended the Cold War with the Soviet Union.  Tell me, what American president has had such extraordinary successes?

Reagan's success was covered up with media hype about "the teflon President," with the neoconservatives's Iran/Contra scandal, with "the Reagan deficits" that belong to David Stockman and Paul Volcker.

American historians, academics who guarantee their careers by justifying the various atrocities their governments commit, rank the top five US presidents as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower in that order. https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?page=overall 

Lincoln destroyed the Constitutional framework based on states' rights as designed by the Founding Fathers.  Lincoln introduced war against civilians as an essential part of war against the opposing army. Today the International Criminal Court would recognize Lincoln as a war criminal and issue arrest warrants.

Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, ranks 7 after Harry S. Truman, who nuked two Japanese civilian cities while the Japanese government was pleading with Washington for peace.

John F. Kennedy comes in 8th, Ronald Reagan 9th, Barack Obama, who bombed 7 countries comes in 10th, and President Lyndon Johnson–"LBJ, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today"–comes in 11th.

What we see here are the liberals, not willing to dethrone the first American president, or a Founding Father who wrote the Declaration of Independence, or John F. Kennedy a martyr, or Reagan whose popularity remains high, shielding themselves from partisanship by including Jefferson, Kennedy, and Reagan in the second tier of successful presidents..