Ronald Reagan The Conservative Who Redefined the Republican Party

The most obvious evidence of this is the rise of Donald Trump, a man who is the antithesis of so much that Ronald Reagan stood for: intellectual ... The 78-year-old (who will become the oldest-ever president during his term) has been the face of the Republican party for the past decade, ... Ronald Reagan, a conservative Republican, won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide. · Reagan's campaign brought together a “New Right” coalition of ... Reagan abandoned the traditional Republican policy of demanding balanced budgets, and persuaded the public that by reducing government revenues ... Then-Governor Ronald Reagan joined Face the Nation in 1975 to talk about whether or not he would challenge President Gerald Ford for the ... In 1962, at age 51, he made formal what had been simmering for years: he left the Democratic Party and became a Republican. The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum and Ronald Reagan ... The slates are generally chosen by the candidate's political party in your State ... For nearly 30 years, the Republican Party has increasingly resembled a religion, with Ronald Reagan as its deity. Party leaders endlessly ... It was Jimmy Carter, not Ronald Reagan, who began reducing the regulatory burdens on such industries as airlines, trucking, railroads, ... Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, noting that Reagan was the first national politician who opposed abortion and believed that a strong ...