This is the first in a series that was financed by Mike Huckabee, long considered one of the most conservative potential presidential candidates. His goal is to create videos marketed to children to teach them about "monumental" moments in American history. This video is completely inaccurate because it fails to address the climate of domestic and global politics that Ronald Reagan entered when he became president (save a reference to an awful Washington D.C.), and the falling of the Berlin Wall was not created by Ronald Reagan but was a complex event that had many factors including the USSR's inability to keep their country stable after being at war for almost ten years. Also, on the issue of those hostages, the Iranians who held the Americans purposefully released them after Carter no longer had a chance to take credit for their release, that wasn't crafted by Reagan but was merely an accidental gain for his presidency. History doesn't serve an agenda, that's called propaganda. :)
Here's an article by the educational organization Teaching Tolerance on this issue: http://www.tolerance.org/blog/meet-mike-hucksterbee?newsletter=TT051711
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