Reagan's Revolution A Journey Through the Issues that Defined His Era

In the 1980 presidential election, Republican former California Governor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide. Former Vice President Walter Mondale would challenge Reagan, running a campaign that would attack the economic policies of the incumbent, would prove to not be ... Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used "We ... When the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and two George Bushes met in Milwaukee this summer to renominate former President ... On August 8, 1974 -- forty years ago this past Friday – after winning the 1972 presidential election in an unprecedented landslide, President Nixon resigned in ... Watch the full debate here: https://youtu.be/zkMPnIEfbbY On October 7, 1984, President Reagan participated in a pivotal debate against ... The Reagan-Bush ticket won 489 electoral votes against Carter-Mondale's 49, rendering the former the winners of the 1980 presidential election. Abernathy, after professing his support for Reagan, said he opposed President Carter 'on behalf of poor black people who can't make it under ... Reagan asserted that voters faced a ''historic choice'' between his economic policies and Walter F. Mondale's program of ''higher taxes, more ... In the final week of the 1980 presidential campaign between Democratic President Jimmy Carter and Republican nominee Ronald Reagan, the two candidates held ...