Reagan's Bold Approach to Social Issues A Legacy of Change

President Reagan's term of office saw a somewhat analogous development in the much longer and slower-moving Cold War. He had left office when the Soviet Union ... OPINION: President Ronald Reagan helped restore the American spirit. His legacy gives us hope today as we faced similar challenges during ... President Ronald W. Reagan. Thumbnail picture of Reagan. 1 ... None of us can afford to underestimate the seriousness of the problems facing Social Security. President Reagan instituted tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and implemented market deregulation. Reaganomics was influenced by ... Reagan's response to his greatest failure—the Iran-Contra disaster—offers important lessons for how policy is made today ... President Ronald Reagan's 1987 call to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall is considered a defining moment of his presidency. A series of scandals happened during the later years of Reagan's presidency. The most important one, called Iran-Contra, involved illegal sales of weapons to ... The main problem with Reagan's outlook was a failure to recognize that government regulation can serve business interests quite effectively. Many of the ... Reagan's approval ratings dropped as deficits increased, interest rates rose as high as 20 percent, unemployment reached 10 percent, even higher for minorities, ... In January 1981 Ronald Reagan took office as President after defeating the incumbent Jimmy Carter the previous November ... had been active in Reagan's ...