6. Reagan's Tax Cuts A Catalyst for Economic Boom

1 These two regions comprise 18 states which could swing a presidential election since they represent (...) 2In 1980, the Reagan campaign knew it could rely on ... On August 8, 1974 -- forty years ago this past Friday – after winning the 1972 presidential election in an unprecedented landslide, President Nixon resigned in ... Ronald Reagan served as the 40th President of the United States from Jan. 20, 1981, to Jan. 19, 1989. He won the 1980 presidential election. Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981 with strongly conservative values but experience in moderate politics. Ronald Reagan gave the Christian Right rhetorical support during his presidential campaigns and time in office, and he invited evangelical leaders such as ... President Ronald Reagan made it clear that his objectives were to cut taxes, fight communism, reinforce national defense, and slow the growth of government. Ronald Reagan and Reaganism were blows from which the Democratic Party has not fully recovered in the 24 years since his election. After the election of Donald Trump as American President, Verso republishes a classic piece of analysis from Robert and Johanna Brenner ... ... the entire House and one-third of the Senate up for reelection. On September 25, 1982, President Reagan had discussed the election in his weekly radio address. Reagan approached the campaign of 1984 at the head of a united Republican party firmly committed to his candidacy. The Democrats, as had become their custom ...