In what way was reagan able to influence national policy decad3s after he was no longer president?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

The oldest known mesopotamian civilization settled in areas along river banks or sea sides surrounded by mountains and deserts which two statements explain why three geographical features led to the rise of mesopotamian civilizations

Who was william jennings bryan? what platform did he run on?