The Achievements Of St. Ronnie

Click here for an article at In These Times by Susan J. Douglas entitled "The Enduring Lies of Ronald Reagan." Here's one paragraph:

Also forgotten is Reagan’s own embarrassing propensity to just make things up. Reagan was a dunce and a fabricator. One of his most famous assertions was, “Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do,” and he maintained, wrongly, that sulfur dioxide emitted from Mount St. Helens was greater than that emitted by cars over a 10-year period. (In one day, cars emit 40 times what Mount St. Helens released in a day even at its peak activity.) In 1985, Reagan praised the P.W. Botha’s apartheid regime of South Africa for eliminating segregation, a blunder then-Press Secretary Larry Speakes had to correct a few days later.

A statement I found telling was that in contrast with the remarkably scandal-free Obama administration, "Eight senior officials in his administration were indicted."