{"id":5159,"date":"2021-04-27T10:56:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?page_id=5159"},"modified":"2023-08-27T23:57:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T23:57:06","slug":"1980s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Was Ronald Reagan&#8217;s foreign policy successful?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Brands, Chapter 10:\u00a0 Fire or Iceland, 1983-86<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tough Talk, Soft Walk? (pp. 237-40)<\/li>\n<li>Whose Side Are We On? (pp. 240-42)<\/li>\n<li>Bombed in Beirut (pp. 242-44)<\/li>\n<li>Nails in the Liberal Coffin (pp. 245-46)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2017\/05\/01\/the-american-intervention-in-grenada-the-story-that-adds-to-and-counters-history-as-we-know-it\/\">To Tehran With Chocolate<\/a> (pp. 246-51)<\/li>\n<li>Beyond the Closet (pp. 251-56)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2022\/04\/19\/american-communism-during-the-reagan-years\/\">Apocalypse Over Manhattan<\/a> (pp. 256-59)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/reagan-realignment\/\">So Close<\/a> (pp. 259-62)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Image Gateway<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5812\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.43.18-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5812\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5812\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.43.18-PM-1024x599.png\" alt=\"Hudson\" width=\"940\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.43.18-PM-1024x599.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.43.18-PM-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.43.18-PM-768x449.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.43.18-PM-1536x899.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.43.18-PM-500x293.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.43.18-PM.png 1818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock Hudson (1925-1985)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>This was the climate in the U.S. when [Catherine] Drabkin began working as director of the AIDS Support Group [in the mid-1980s]. In fact, this new attention by the Reagan Administration was what allowed Drabkin to begin working at the support group. \u201cI came in on one grant but we applied for others and suddenly we had, actually a good bit of money that we could use to do, not only services to people with AIDS but also educational outreach for prevention.\u201d Drabkin recalled \u201cThe organization ended up growing really fast so I moved from a volunteer coordinator position to an executive director position and hired additional staff members.\u201d\u00a0 &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2015\/05\/21\/fighting-the-epidemic-grass-root-aids-support-groups-in-the-80s\/\">From oral history with Charlottesville, VA AIDS support worker, Catherine Drabkin<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>1984 \/\/ Reagan Re-election<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In the 1984 presidential election, Ronald Reagan won 49 out of 50 states. This commercial, known popularly as the \u201cMorning Again in America\u201d ad helps illustrate the broad appeal of the reelection campaign \u2013and the sophisticated selling techniques of modern presidential politicking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingroomcandidate.org\/commercials\/1984\/prouder-stronger-better\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5166\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM-300x252.png\" alt=\"Reagan ad\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM-1024x859.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM-768x645.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM-357x300.png 357w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM.png 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Reagan and Gorbachev at Reykjavik (1986)<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.44.18-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5813\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.44.18-PM.png\" alt=\"Reykjavik\" width=\"1014\" height=\"952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.44.18-PM.png 1014w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.44.18-PM-300x282.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.44.18-PM-768x721.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.44.18-PM-320x300.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Ronald Reagan&#8217;s foreign policy successful? Brands, Chapter 10:\u00a0 Fire or Iceland, 1983-86 Tough Talk, Soft Walk? (pp. 237-40) Whose Side Are We On? (pp. 240-42) Bombed in Beirut (pp. 242-44) Nails in the Liberal Coffin (pp. 245-46) To Tehran With Chocolate (pp. 246-51) Beyond the Closet (pp. 251-56) Apocalypse Over Manhattan (pp. 256-59) So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5159\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}