The Reagan Presidency A Conservative Triumph for the Republican Party

11/13/1979 Reagan announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President. He was the tenth and last Republican to enter the race. 1980. 02/23/1980 ... Then-Governor Ronald Reagan joined Face the Nation in 1975 to talk about whether or not he would challenge President Gerald Ford for the ... Ronald Reagan 1967–1975 · Edmund G. 'Jerry' Brown. Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown 1975–1983 · George Deukmejian 1983–1991. Reagan's near-miss candidacy made him the leading Republican contender in 1980, when he handily won his party's nomination and went on to defeat incumbent ... RONALD REAGAN | 1981-1989; GEORGE BUSH | 1989-1993; WILLIAM J. CLINTON | 1993-2001; GEORGE W. BUSH | 2001-2009; BARACK OBAMA | 2009-2017; DONALD J. TRUMP | 2017 ... ... (Ronald Reagan), while it was higher for the other three Republicans. For example, the unemployment rate has fallen from 6.4% at the start of ... As a result, it was Nixon, not Reagan or Trump, who first triggered the flight of White working-class voters from the party of Franklin D. It was Jimmy Carter, not Ronald Reagan, who began reducing the regulatory burdens on such industries as airlines, trucking, railroads, ... James Earl Carter Jr. was the 39th U.S. president, elected as a Democrat displacing the incumbent Republican, Gerald Ford, in 1976. Carter would ... Reagan had spent much of his political career campaigning and voting for Democrats, but throughout the 1950s his increasingly conservative views turned him ...