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Reagan made that point even more clearly during his debate with independent candidate John Anderson that fall (Carter refused to participate). The first question asked was what politically unpopular measures would he pursue to reduce inflation?

Reagan said that “the only unpopular measures and with those, perhaps, some special interest groups who are tied closely to government.” It was a twist on the famous line from John F. Kennedy’s inaugural; under a whatsapp number list Reagan presidency, Americans would need to bear no burden, pay no price. (In reality, the public would experience a severe recession as the Federal Reserve sought to stamp out high inflation by spiking interest rates.)

Reagan’s historic landslide over Carter may have served as a lesson for the president who faced arguably the most serious crisis since the end of the second world war, George W. Bush.