December 05, 2019
Volume 49 - No. 49
By R. L. “Pete” Peterson
The president was facing a tough decision that could change the course of the Cold War. He had a reputation as a decision fact-based fast, maker, who consulted his many resources before deciding on a course of action. He’d reviewed satellite images so clear they could measure the circumference of a fifty-ruble coin on the streets of Moscow; he’d talked to multiple intelligence agencies and sought The Paper - 760.747.7119
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advice from his Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and other Cabinet members. He’d weighed the pros and cons of his decision with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and consulted with his vice president. With no room for error, he weighed the advice of the leading minds in his administration, read the latest position papers and made one last call. He phoned his astrologist.
The result? The United States
Air Force bombers and lethal Navy jets, would attack strong man Muammar Gaddafi’s Middle Eastern country of Libya in the dead of night. According to Don Regan, who served as Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan for three years, the 40th president of the United States went through this process before every major action of his presidency, from timing his reelection announcement to disarmament negotiations with Russian leader, Mikhail
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Gorbachev.
President Reagan was not the only American president to use astrology while in the White House. In his 2005 book, “The Fated Sky,” historian Benson Bobrick writes that President Theodore Roosevelt kept his birth chart on a table in his living quarters. Nor was Teddy alone. . Yale history Professor Truzzi, noted that President Franklin D. Roosevelt often quoted horoscopes in Cabinet meetings