birthday is in april but they celebrate it in june. that was, because of pandemic rules, done at windsor without the throngs that would normally have been gathered. but the typical meeting would be very formal, of course. i have had the honor of meeting her on several of her washington visits over the decades. in my experience, this is someone who has met with so many world leaders, and she is very, very experienced. she knows so much more than anybody else in history about all of the sort of the range of history, back to world war ii, when of course she was in the british military service, working in the motor pool, and then of course her coronation and all the decades since. so she s very experienced. 13 american presidents, all except lbj, have met with her. joe biden did have a very brief meeting with her when he was on the signal delegation in november of 1982 in england.
everyone was worried the fed was going way too far and too tight. all the same head winds occurred with us. we lost the mid-term elections in november of 1982 badly to the democrats. reagan s approvals were very low and then we had this boom, january 1st, 1983 to june 30th, 1984. we grew by 12% at an 8% annual rate in real gdp. amazing. by november of 1984, we had won reelection by beating mondale 49 to 50. a landslide. reagan s world. all the deck has been set. all i can say to anyone is bring it on. just sit, hold tight and you will see whether this stuff works. bill: here is what i read after the mid-terms. no new tax cut package that will pass or happen. so what is the best arrow in the quiver? the tax bill itself. these things take time. we ve dropped the highest rate
which is where we are on the defensive primarily, not on the offensive. i think this is where this is a good example of where the u.s. went on the offensive. seth, pull the string a little more on that end of the story. electric with a lens is a, the pope, the president of the united states and the cia all involved in a concerted coordinated effort to undermine the existing polish government and it worked out well but pull the string a little more on the behind the scenes stuff there. so what happened was in november of 1982 president reagan signs a finding to provide covert assistance to solidarity. the irony here is that the u.s. didn t have to create anything, there was already an opposition movement active in poland. what the cia did was provide money that got what an opposition movement needed into poland, it got paper, money for paper, xerox machines, technical supports so that it could run an underground radio, technical
of a million men in operation torch in north africa in november of 1982 and pushed sicily the whole way to italy and it wasn t until d-day in june 1944 we crossed. by that stage, we captured an awful lot of germans. the north africa campaign was more significant than stalin would have we kptured as many access forces in tunisia as was captured install in stalin grad it must have been extraordinarily difficult and costly and all that maintaining the supply line. yes. crucial to this, in north africa, you see a thousand mile long supply line and another thousand mile long one in russia. the fact was it was next to impossible to do. when adolph hitler s in
me, andty admitted it so many times is when he talked about america. he wasn t going to say i m going to to do this because i m a big shot and a brain. we can do things without a lot of help from government and on our own we can do things. that s what your piece is about, isn t it? he doesn t talk like that anymor anymore. it s hard to talk about that. declining gdp, doubling deficit and presidential approval rating south of 40%, ronald reagan, november of 1982, he held all 54 republican senate seats. they lost a couple dozen house seats, which is basically par for the course. you have an economic environment as bad or worse as what the democrats and barack obama are facing. if if you have to own one thing, you have to own optimism.