The Reagan Era A Party that Restored American Strength

Spend any time at Tea Party meetings and one thing you learn pretty quickly is that Tea Party activists are far quicker to criticize than ... Ronald Reagan announced he would seek the Republican nomination for president in the 1980 election. He made his announcement in a recorded video from New ... (a) The Democratic Party of today claims lineal descent from the first Republican Party, with President Jefferson as its founder. Authorities differ as to the ... But the presidential couple that stood out from the rest was former President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan. The 40th President ... Former Governors - California ; Gov. Ronald Wilson Reagan, California, 1967 - 1975, Democrat, Republican ; Gov. Edmund Gerald Brown, California, 1959 - 1967 'If I could not go to heaven but with a party', declared Thomas Jefferson in 1789, 'I would not go there at all'. The role of party leader has bedeviled ... More importantly, his election changed the demographic composition of the Republican Party and built the core beliefs still practiced today: lower taxes, less ... He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement. His presidency is known as the Reagan era. For more than 30 years, the Republican Party was defined by Ronald Reagan's famous three-legged stool: a coalition of fiscal conservatives, ... (“Pat”) Brown (who had defeated Nixon's challenge in 1962), ridiculed Reagan's lack of experience, declaring that while he (Brown) had been serving the public, ...