The Contentious Legacy of Reagan's Foreign Adventures

During the campaign of 1980, Ronald Reagan announced a recipe to fix the nation's economic mess. He claimed an undue tax burden, excessive government regulation ... The biographer is faced with a distinctive challenge when he has ... controversy today, as the wide range of historical literature shows. Following his inaugural address in which he stated that “government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem,” Reagan's first term policy ... Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981 with strongly conservative values but experience in moderate politics. Reagan imposes economic sanctions on Poland following that government's imposition of martial law. Reagan calls for “New Federalism” in his State of the Union ... Reagan's tax and budget proposals were nonetheless controversial. Cutting programs designed to help the poor, liberals argued, placed those Americans at even ... Reagan had the single largest number of cabinet members and staff who were convicted criminals, more than any President in US history - ... When Ronald Reagan stepped down as president on January 20, 1989, he had served eight years. This itself is an extraordinary accomplishment; ... When these illegal acts were revealed in November 1986, Reagan suffered a greater one-month plunge in public support (from 67 to 46 per cent) than any president ... A bad actor a worse president. A tool of the Koch brothers. In 8 years turned our nation from the largest creditor nation on earth into the ...