DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: At least, not if you’re the Washington Post’s Phillip Rucker. Ed Driscoll schools him on Reagan, Patco, and foreign affairs.

Note this from Reagan’s Secretary of State, George Schultz: “‘One of the most fortuitous foreign relations moves he ever made.’ It was in no way a popular move with the American public but it showed European heads of state and diplomatic personnel that he was tough and meant what he said.”