Confronting Economic Turmoil Ronald Reagan's Fiscal Battles

He lost, but was chosen as a running mate by Ronald Reagan. As Vice President, Bush had ... Bush's greatest test came when Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ... Reagan's policies had not worked as their initial advocates had expected, and much of his administration's contribution to the economic recovery was inadvertent ... As Reagan claimed in his address 'Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace.'Footnote As such, the president requested that the other major NATO members ... When Republicans strategize about how to deal with China today, many of them point to President Ronald Reagan's confrontational approach toward the Soviet ... President Ronald W. Reagan. Thumbnail picture of Reagan. 1 ... None of us can afford to underestimate the seriousness of the problems facing Social Security. Instead he added one (Veterans Affairs, now the government's second-largest). Ryan chooses to remember the Reagan of 1981, when anything was ... Reagan's approval ratings dropped as deficits increased, interest rates rose as high as 20 percent, unemployment reached 10 percent, even higher for minorities, ... Reagan's response to his greatest failure—the Iran-Contra disaster—offers important lessons for how policy is made today ... Reagan's welfare reforms just made the poor poorer. When a three-year recession hit in 1980, six million more Americans fell into poverty. By ... No one knew that four decades of Cold War tension were virtually at an end. Nor did anyone suspected that the Soviet Union itself, which Reagan had called the ...