05 Jan 1st Post: Select a foreign

Week 7 discussion

DQ1 Internal, Republicanism

Objective: Students will explore popular terms that came to associate the presidency of Reagan and H.W Bush, consider how they reflected the presidents time in office.

What is in a name? You tell me…

Americans become familiar with terms that are directly linked to the presidents/administration with which these names are coined under.

During Reagan and H.W Bush’s presidency many terms became popular fodder for the standing presidents and the media loved to popularize them in sound bites and attention getting headlines.

Select one of the terms listed (or if you have one of your own I may have missed;)

Please look over the terms already posted so we can reduce the about of repeats in the discussion!

Reaganomics

The New Right

The Moral Majority

Star Wars

Evil Empire

trickle-down

War on Drugs

voodoo economics

conservatism

Religious Right

“tear down that wall”

The Second Gilded Age

New World Order

Bush Triangulation

“read my lips”

1st Post: Provide background on the selected term to include the president/administration, how the term evolved, and what it meant to the American people.

2nd & 3rd Post: Read over your fellow classmates first post, select two and ask them the question:

How did this effect you and was it positive or negative?

Again, please look over the discussion posts and ask the question of two students who may not have been asked the question yet.

DQ2 External, The CIA, Reagan, and H.W.Bush

Objective: Students will examine the use of CIA intelligence and how Reagan and H.W Bush used this information to carry out their foreign policy agendas.

During the Reagan and H.W Bush administrations, the presidents utilized information from the CIA in very different ways.

According to John Helgerson a former CIA Officers and author of a book titled, CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates: Getting to Know the Presidents 1952-1992: “Reagan brought to the presidency deep convictions about key national security issues and felt the need for only limited, very general intelligence information. Bush approached developments abroad as a pragmatic activist and expected from the Intelligence Community an unprecedented level of day-to-day support and detail. Both, however, received Agency officers warmly and were openly appreciative of their support.” (1)

Answer the following questions using the resources from Week 7, the links I provided and any additional research:

1st Post: Select a foreign event during the presidency of Reagan or H.W. Bush and describe how they utilized information from the CIA to determine American actions.

2nd Post: In your opinion and based on the information, do you think the president and/or the CIA acted in the best interest of the American people?

You can post this within the same discussion as your 1st post

3rd Post: Based on who you selected and the event you highlighted, read over your fellow students post and find one that expresses how these two presidents handled the CIA briefings and how they contrasted each other.

Additional Resource but not limited to..:

John Helgerson Book (see Chapter 6 for the information on “A Study in Contrast”)

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/cia-briefings-of-presidential-candidates

Reagan

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/our-first-line-of-defense-presidential-reflections-on-us-intelligence/reagan.html

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/Reagan_CIA.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/cia.html

http://www.merip.org/mer/mer155/saudi-arabia-reagan-doctrine

Bush

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/our-first-line-of-defense-presidential-reflections-on-us-intelligence/bush.html

https://consortiumnews.com/archive/xfile7.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/cia.html

http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbushG.htm

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Saddam’s_Hidden_History.html

General Information

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIA_ThirdWorld.html

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41222.htm

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