Overcoming Adversity Examining the Issues that Tested Reagan's Campaign

Reagan's 1981 Program for Economic Recovery had four major policy objectives: (1) reduce the growth of government spending, (2) reduce the marginal tax ... Ronald Reagan and The Heritage Foundation. It's hard to tell the story of one without much of the other's. Heritage was President Reagan's favorite think ... He would never vote for Donald Trump—unless the only other viable opponent were Joe Biden. In the 1980 presidential election, Republican former California Governor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide. The Trump-dominated, populist-nationalist GOP is certainly very different from the conservative party that Reagan led in the 1980s, and Trump is a very ... Ronald Reagan quipped during their 2nd Debate in 1984. President Reagan's sense of humor even solicited a laugh from Democratic opponent Walter Mondale. In the presidential election of 1984, Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush won in a landslide over Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro. and again they said, "The new President does not have a mandate for conservative policies; instead, he has a mandate to be different from Jimmy Carter." (Pomper ... When the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and two George Bushes met in Milwaukee this summer to renominate former President ... The central issue in the Presidential campaign, Republican and Democratic strategists assert, will be President Reagan's leadership.