Presiding Over the Challenger Disaster Reagan's Leadership in Crisis

For decades before coming into office, Reagan had criticized the spread of Soviet communism and the danger it posed. He compared communism to Nazism and ... Reagan's economic program had two major components: tax reductions and budget cuts, which took center stage, and monetary policy, which was as important but ... Bush, had referred to it as “voodoo economics” when competing with him for the Republican presidential nomination. When Reagan proposed a 30 percent cut in ... OPINION: President Ronald Reagan helped restore the American spirit. His legacy gives us hope today as we faced similar challenges during ... 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 ... Everywhere Ronald Reagan looks there's trouble. There's opportunity, too, of course, but now there are accumulating tests on domestic and ... By 1980, the country was tired of the Democratic Party and facing problems such as inflation, unemployment, and oil shortages, in addition to a hostage ... To those who saw ideological inconsistency in a conservative president opposed to Big Government calling for such an intrusion of said government in the ... Instead he added one (Veterans Affairs, now the government's second-largest). Ryan chooses to remember the Reagan of 1981, when anything was ... Reagan and Social Security ... During his long rise to political prominence, President Ronald Reagan had been no friend to Social Security. He had ...