
MORNING GLORY: When Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers, voters never forgot. Nor did the Soviets
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From Reagan's PATCO strike response to Trump's current challenges with riots and Iran, how decisive moments define presidential leadership and establish international credibility.
The PATCO strikers of 1981 were replaced with a combination of 3,000 supervisors, those who had not gone out on strike, and 900 military controllers. An aggressive hiring and training program made up the difference. In 1996, President Bill Clinton ended Reagan's prohibition on rehiring PATCO strikers as air traffic controllers and a few hundred returned to work after more than a decade-and-a-half in the wilderness.

Leavitt lashes out at CNN's Kaitlan Collins in tense exchange on fallen soldiers from Iran operation
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took aim at CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins and her network during a tense exchange about the fallen soldiers during Operation Epic Fury against Iran.












