Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Ronald Reagan's Major Executive Orders

All presidents since President Reagan have issued signing statements ... granted to the executive branch by the Constitution. Some of ... Since FDR, more and more major policies have been initiated by executive order. Roosevelt himself, for instance, ordered the military to move ... Ronald Wilson Reagan, the fortieth United States President (1981-1989) was the oldest man to serve as Chief Executive. He was sixty-nine years old at the time ... A one-term presidency is painful, especially as decisive a loss as Carter's to Ronald Reagan. Reagan won the 1980 election in a landslide ... Challenges to the resolution include Ronald Reagan's deployment of troops to El Salvador in 1981, the continued bombing of Kosovo during ... In a move that the New York Times described as “relatively sudden” and “a significant shift in policy,” Reagan signed Executive Order 12532 on September 9, 1985 ... Given the gravity of the matter, why wasn't President Reagan impeached? Why was there so little serious discussion of impeachment? One reason is that the ... For example, in issuing Executive Order 12356 in 1982, President Reagan became the first chief executive in four decades to mandate tighter access to infor. Grace & Company, convinced Reagan to undertake a similar initiative on the federal level. On June 30, 1982, Reagan signed an executive order ... ... executive producers: Brett Myers and Taki Telonidis | Host: Al Letson ... Ronald Reagan: They're threatening our values and undercutting our ...