The Burden of Leadership Exploring the Toll It Took on Reagan

At the end of 1994, it was revealed to the world that President Reagan had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's which quietly ushered him off the world's stage. Reagan inherited a federal budget of $599 billion in revenue, $678 billion in spending, and a deficit of $79 billion. He left office with a ... Jimmy Carter left office in 1981 as one of the most unpopular presidents in modern times, defeated for re-election and seemingly doomed to ... In the depths of the 1981-1982 recession, Americans were far more displeased with their president and his policies than were their ... The former US president was widely criticised for his time in government, but his work on leaving office came to exemplify what a ... Ronald Reagan (born February 6, 1911, Tampico, Illinois, U.S.—died June 5, 2004, Los Angeles, California) was the 40th president of the United States ... Conversely, there were 2.7 million fewer Americans employed when President Trump left office than at the beginning of his term, making him the ... ... left office, since his passing on December 29. For me, it is what Carter did while president that makes his tenure standout, even amid the ... Biden, who leaves office in 11 days, repeated several times that ... Carter lost in a landslide to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980. The nation's fifth president, President James Monroe took office on March 4, 1817. ... LOS ANGELES - 1980: President Ronald Reagan poses for a portrait in 1980 in ...