On D-Day, Biden follows in Reagan's footsteps

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By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman This week, President Joe Biden traveled to Normandy, France, to give remarks at the 80th anniversary of D-Day, to honor past military sacrifices and triumphs. The occasion may afford Biden the chance to display statesmanship at a time when his reelection campaign could use a boost. As Sarah Thomson writes in Made by History , the President follows in the footsteps of President Ronald Reagan who, 40 years ago, delivered one of his most famous speeches at Normandy's shores. The speech alone didn't clinch his 1984 landslide victory, but it did help create a media narrative casting Reagan as a "Great Communicator" and global U.S. leader, which enhanced his image at home.

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FROM THE TIME VAULT This week in 1954: Humphrey Bogart Ernest Hamlin Baker The June 7, 1954, cover of TIME “Actor Bogart, now a hardy 54, is one of the most unactorish of his breed. He seems to take genuine delight in the marks of erosion that time and hard liquor have left on his face: once, after signing a long-term contract, he caused Producer Jack Warner to call for his lawyers by predicting in raucous triumph that both the Bogart hair and the Bogart teeth were sure to drop out before it ended. Prattle about theatrical art stirs him to open contempt. But he is full of surly pride in his own competence. ‘I don’t approve,” he says, “of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying, ‘Shucks, I ain’t no actor —I’m just a bridge builder or a gas-station attendant.’ If they aren’t actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.’” Read More » This week in 1983: Stress TIME The June 6, 1983, cover of TIME “By encouraging workers to reduce the strains on their hearts, backs and psyches, corporations can begin to lower the $125 billion or more annually spent on total health care for employees, a figure that has been rising by 15% a year…As the relaxation boom spreads, as corporate America learns its mantras and chronic worriers unwind their minds, the point, then, is not to escape the effects of stress, which are inescapable in any case, but to channel and control them. Between the fight-or-flight spasms of too much tension and the dullness and dormancy of too little, the challenge for each person is to find the level of manageable stress that invigorates life instead of ravaging it.” Read More » This week in 1995: Bill Gates Gregory Heisler The June 5, 1995, cover of TIME “At 39, he seems to have achieved the information age’s equivalent of the American Dream. Through intelligence, ruthlessness and hard work he dominates a technology so central to modern life that it touches nearly every office, school and desktop. He is very, very rich and so powerful that even his enemies are eager to cut deals with him. Now he wants more, a piece of all the action-the bills people pay, the phone calls they make, the news they read, the TV they watch. But he may have reached that point in the arc of his success where the very qualities that raised him high could start to drag him down.” Read More »

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