Reagan's War on Drugs A Controversial Crackdown with Lasting Impacts

Republican Ronald Reagan was the oldest president when he took office in 1981, and he went on to serve two terms. Dan says, in the final days of Nixon's presidency, White House aides are starting to think about the president's exit strategy. ... Ronald Reagan: ... 38. Gerald R. Ford, 1974 - 1977, Republican ; 39. Jimmy Carter, 1977 - 1981, Democrat ; 40. Ronald Reagan, 1981 - 1989, Republican ; 41. George ... By 1960, Ronald Reagan, who was a registered Democrat at the time, began to realize that the enemy wasn't big business, ... Ronald Reagan had quite a prolific career, having catapulted from a Warner Bros. contract player and television star, into serving as president of the Screen ... Aiming to restore the country to a position of moral as well as military preeminence in the world, he called for massive increases in the defense budget to ... Table of Contents · James Monroe · William Henry Harrison · George H.W. Bush · Harry Truman · James Buchanan · Andrew Jackson · Dwight D. Eisenhower · Ronald Reagan ... Jimmy Carter was the president who made Ronald Reagan necessary ... Richard Nixon made Jimmy Carter tempting; Carter made Ronald Reagan necessary. Five ways Ronald Reagan loved the USA: Freedom is 'a universal right of all God's children' · "Our founding documents proclaim to the world that ... Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), a former actor and California governor, served as the 40th president from 1981 to 1989.