Ronald Reagan's Enduring Influence A Beacon of American Conservatism

Few today remember President Ronald Reagan as an environmentalist, and with justifiable reason. Though as governor of California Reagan ... President Ronald Reagan in front of the Brandenburg Gate in West ... The Lasting Legacy of Reagan's Speech. The “Tear Down This Wall ... Latin America and the Legacy of Ronald Reagan's 1980s, by Evan D. ... What sense, then, can be made of the 1980s, and the enduring impact ... Reagan's economic legacy is mixed. On the one hand, tax reduction and a tightening of interest rates by the Federal Reserve led to a record period of peacetime ... The pillars of Reagan's economic policy included increasing defense spending, balancing the federal budget and slowing the growth of government spending, ... Reagan's strategy in dealing with the Soviet Union and ending the Cold War involved reviving the U.S. economy, restoring American self- ... In reality, he increased government spending, cut taxes and turned the United States from a creditor to a debtor nation. During his presidency, ... Yet, critics of the government were not sleeping during the era of big government. Academics, conservative think tanks, and political leaders were laying the ... Until he contracted Alzheimer's disease, he enjoyed his retirement, traveling once or twice a week to his suite of offices in a nearby Century City tower ... Reagan's welfare reforms just made the poor poorer. When a three-year recession hit in 1980, six million more Americans fell into poverty. By ...