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Reagan also listened. As he zigzagged across the country, he acquired a powerful sense of what ordinary people thought and hoped and wanted. "That did much to shape my ideas," Reagan said later. "These employees I was meeting were a cross section of America, and damn it, too many of our political leaders, our labor leaders, and certainly a lot of geniuses ... on Madison Avenue, have underestimated them. They want the truth, they are friendly and helpful, intelligent and alert. They are concerned ... with their very firm personal liberties. And they are moral." The hemophilic liberal was becoming steadily more...
...strong views on foreign policy extend beyond his support of the Bush administration. He spent last year in Taiwan, working with the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy—an NGO that works to promote democracy in Asia—and last summer interned in the war games section at National Defense University, helping to create crisis scenarios...
...also spent three of his summers training full time for the military. He spent one summer shadowing a mechanic on a destroyer stationed in the Adriatic Sea (“He could fix anything,” Bosco recalls), and another attached to the intelligence section aboard an amphibious vessel that had just returned from a deployment supporting operations in Afghanistan...
...don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. And even these have been relatively minor incidents: disparaging comments from a knot of professors as he walked through the Yard in uniform, a debate with a teaching fellow in section...
...heap praise on UCSF for an enormously successful implementation of a brand-new science expansion. While there are some important differences, Mission Bay and Allston share many similarities: it’s a separate campus centering on the life sciences, and it is being constructed in a run-down section of the city on waterfront property that used to be a railyard...