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# Ronald Reagan, the feelgood president
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article-1952jsp/
- Published: 2004-06-10T23:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:49:25.000Z
- Author: Open democracy
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:17

Subscribers can download the ‘Reagan Package’ in PDF format from the link above. This collection includes four contributions from our debate ‘[Ronald Reagan, the feelgood president](http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/issue-10-104.jsp)’.

**Todd Gitlin** on how team Bush is running Reagan’s death as a self-tribute; **John Hulsman**, who met him when he was 16, on why Reagan was a better Republican than today’s President; **Siva Vaidhyanathan** on how his generation hated growing up under President Feelgood; **Godfrey Hodgson**, doyen of US historians, sums up the man who persuaded America it was still morning and government was the problem.