Tackling Social Welfare Reagan's Conservative Agenda

In January 1981 Ronald Reagan took office as President after defeating the incumbent Jimmy Carter the previous November ... had been active in Reagan's ... Everywhere Ronald Reagan looks there's trouble. There's opportunity, too, of course, but now there are accumulating tests on domestic and ... Reagan and Social Security ... During his long rise to political prominence, President Ronald Reagan had been no friend to Social Security. He had ... Regarding Reagan's election as president, he had several obstacles that he had to overcome. One was being too conservative. Another was that he had been ... After 1985, many of Reagan's national security advisers, intelligence analysts, and political allies disdained the president's nuclear ... Reagan's fifth and sixth shutdowns happened over three big issues: crime, Title IX, and water projects. The crime bill, which Reagan ... In doing so, he managed the public/private line, moving many concerns back to being private concerns that the New Deal form had seen as public matters. Reagan ... 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 ... One major domestic issue Reagan faced was the economy. At the beginning of Reagan's presidency the US was facing high inflation and high unemployment rates. Reagan and his advisers focused in particular on El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Cuba. Haig decided to make El Salvador a test case of his foreign policy.