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Though opinions of Ronald Reagan tempered after his death in August, many historians and textbooks continue to diminish his legacy.

In this midst of nostalgia for him, it is worth noting that during his lifetime, elites claimed that Ronald Reagan was factually challenged. Just as frequently, he proved them wrong.

“I’m looking for a Ronald Reagan in 2012. I’ve lived through the 1970s.”—

George Washington University professor Henry Nau at the Heritage Foundation on September 30, 2010.

“Too many Republicans ran like Ronald Reagan but governed like Jimmy Carter.”

—Ken Blackwell at a June 21, 2010 AIA authors’ night explaining the GOP’s recent reversal of electoral fortunes

AJC: In his book, Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, Bernard von Bothmer, a professor of American history at the University of San Francisco and Dominican University of California, “examines the ways in which four presidents [Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush] used their own selective versions of the 1960s for political gain in the years from 1980 to 2004.”

We could be in for the most seismic shift in the youth vote since Ronald Reagan was succeeded by George H. W. Bush and young people peeled away from the GOP.

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”

-Ronald Reagan

AJC: Unlike the current Republican Party, which does not “know what it stands for,” former President Ronald Reagan’s ideals encompassed the Republican party, claimed author Craig Shirley at a Nov. 10 Bloggers’ Briefing.

American presidents of both parties, all too often, need to be appreciated at a distance. Of the 20th Century chief executives, perhaps only Ronald Reagan holds up well under scrutiny.

At a time when political leaders seem befuddled at best, American Enterprise Institute scholar Steven F. Hayward discusses two statesmen he has written extensively about—Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan—at an Accuracy in Academia author’s night in October 2007.

At a time when political leaders seem befuddled at best, American Enterprise Institute scholar Steven F. Hayward discusses two statesmen he has written extensively about—Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan—at an Accuracy in Academia author’s night in October 2007.

The conservative pundits seeking to accumulate intellectual bona fides by aping the intelligentsia’s call to “forget Ronald Reagan” only succeed in proving themselves to be as vacuous as the allegedly educated elite.