Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittatc!decvax!tektronix!reed!omssw2!ogcvax!kimf From: kimf@ogcvax.UUCP (Kim Flowers) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Reagan Message-ID: <1095@ogcvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 01:23:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ogcvax.1095 Posted: Wed Sep 24 01:23:08 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 04:16:44 EDT References: Reply-To: kimf@ogcvax.UUCP (Kim Flowers) Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR Lines: 14 In article brian@sequent.UUCP (Brian Godfrey) writes: > Since when must our President be the "Leader of the Free World" and who >made him so. No wonder we Americans are looked on as arrogant by much of >the world. The title "Leader of the Free World" is not conferred upon the President by our arrogance, but as an acknowledgement that the President is the chief executive of the most powerful nation in the world. Regardless of whether or not the President is capable of providing such leadership is irrelevant, as other countries will at least respond to his actions if not follow them. Signed, mAd QuArK!