Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

by Bill O'Reilly

When asked by Henry Trewhitt of the Baltimore Sun if age is an issue, Reagan is ready with a snappy comeback: “I will not make age an issue of this campaign.… I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”

The year is 1985. Year five of the Reagan presidency. The president secretly authorizes the sale of two thousand missiles to Iran in exchange for seven American hostages being held in the Middle East. The profits from the sale are then sent to an anti-communist militia in Nicaragua known as the Contras. This is illegal. Congress is never told.

The Iran-Contra scandal and questions about his mental acuity marred his second term, and many critics find Reagan’s poor record on the environment a blemish on his record. The poor treatment of the mentally ill and homeless will be one of his strongest failures,

The question of when the president contracted Alzheimer’s will long be a subject of debate.

As his successor, Barack Obama, is sworn in, Bush gives him a handwritten letter: “There will be trying moments. The critics will rage. Your friends will disappoint you. But you will have an Almighty God to comfort you, a family who loves you, and a country that is pulling for you, including me.”

Bill Clinton “abortion should be safe, legal, and rare”