This Day in History

I didn't know this! On November 4, 1980:

Blessedly, 25 years ago today, it came to an end with the election of Ronald Reagan and the dawn of the age of confident conservatism. The ensuing two decades saw unprecedented economic growth, victory in the Cold War, and a gradual diminution of the timidity about employing U.S. military force overseas that is known as the "Vietnam syndrome." By the mid-1990s, a Democratic president was even undoing the worst excesses of LBJ's Great Society.

Thanks to James Taranto for reminding me. I was only 11 at the time and, if I remember right, was cheering for the other guy.

Hey, I was just a dumb kid. Gimme a break.