Reagan's Platform Unveiling the Issues that Propelled His Presidency

Much is being written about Ronald Reagan's successes in economics, politics and foreign affairs. Just as important was how he responded to his failures. Ronald Reagan's landslide election as President and the Republican Party's takeover of the Senate gives a substantial push to the rightward trend. Reagan asserted that voters faced a ''historic choice'' between his economic policies and Walter F. Mondale's program of ''higher taxes, more ... Reagan approached the campaign of 1984 at the head of a united Republican party firmly committed to his candidacy. The Democrats, as had become their custom ... We examined Ronald Reagan's 1980 election campaign to judge the effects of his Issue of the Day (IOD) media management strategy on his image as portrayed in ... On August 8, 1974 -- forty years ago this past Friday – after winning the 1972 presidential election in an unprecedented landslide, President Nixon resigned in ... He carried 49 of the 50 states and won the highest number of electoral votes ever received by a presidential candidate. Nancy Reagan Hugs President Reagan as He ... Ronald Reagan, a conservative Republican, won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide. · Reagan's campaign brought together a “New Right” coalition of ... Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States on November 4, 1980. His triumph capped the rise of the new right/conservative wing of the Republican ... "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."