Reagan's Leadership A Guide for Future Generations

Despite the idolatry of the last fifteen years, Reagan's average popularity as president was only, well, average, lower than that of a half-dozen modern ... Reagan engineered a significant increase in U.S. defense spending designed to modernize existing forces and achieve technological advances the Soviet Union ... For 30 years Ronald Reagan has been a hero to Republicans and conservatives, his presidency regarded as the crucial moment when America ... Ronald Wilson Reagan was a transformational President. His leadership and the symbiotic relationship he forged with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Discuss the Reagan administration's economic policies and their effects on the nation ... The largest of the presidential libraries, the Ronald Reagan ... During his presidency, Reagan escalated the military budget while slashing funds for domestic programs that assisted working-class Americans and ... Washington, D.C., November 25, 2016 – Exactly thirty years ago, President Ronald Reagan announced to the nation – after weeks of denials ... The national security adviser (Reagan went through four in six years) either proved unable to forge agreement on policy or was not empowered by the president to ... He had the confidence that comes with conviction, the strength that comes with character, the grace that comes with humility, and the humor that comes with ... Reagan won 489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter. On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days later he was shot by a would-be assassin, ...