Reagan's Economic Revolution Transforming America's Economy

Reagan's 1981 Program for Economic Recovery had four major policy objectives ... President Reagan delivered on each of his four major policy objectives ... OPINION: President Ronald Reagan helped restore the American spirit. His legacy gives us hope today as we faced similar challenges during ... 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 ... While Reagan helped change the national mood, he also faced structural economic problems and strained relations with the U.S.S.R. that occupied most of his two ... 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 ... Reagan was one of the most despicable presidents… [He was] responsible for 500,000 American AIDS deaths and 10 million worldwide, while he ... Dubbed the Great Communicator, the affable Reagan became a popular two-term president. He cut taxes, increased defense spending, negotiated a ... 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 ... Reagan's response to his greatest failure—the Iran-Contra disaster—offers important lessons for how policy is made today ... 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 ...