J.’s Reviews > Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House: A Provocative History with Deep Political Revelations, ... the High-Stakes Political Games of the 1980s > Status Update
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"Bill Casey's unholy alliance with Iran gave birth to Reaganism and the modern conservative movement. The 'Bush' babe later became part of no fewer than five Republican administrations... Collectively, those administrations made no fewer than eight conservative Supreme Court appointments and led the way to the newly right-wing Court that made sweeping decisions."
— Aug 02, 2025 05:40PM
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"And when my classmates and I arrived at the [Alamo], we were told all about how the defenders of Texas heroically gave their lives in the battle against the Mexican onslaught. The only problem was that none of it was true. The real story was that Mexico had just abolished slavery, and the slaveowners of Texas, then a Mexican state, didn't like it." Lmao bc I remember that omission from my own TX school days
— Aug 02, 2025 06:08PM
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"[Copeland later said] Jimmy Carter's sin wasn't stupidity. It was worse, he told Parry. 'Carter was a utopian. He believed literally that you must do the right thing and take your chances on the consequences. He told me that. He literally believed that.'"
— Jul 22, 2025 11:05PM
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"...what journalists really owe readers is the truth, but what inevitably happens instead is that politicians feed the reporters an endless string of self-serving stories, and the reporters spread them around and keep coming back for more."
— Jul 20, 2025 11:48PM
