Reagan's Star Wars The Legacy of Missile Defense

Reagan's strategy in dealing with the Soviet Union and ending the Cold War involved reviving the U.S. economy, restoring American self- ... Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, and Thomas Phillip “Tip” O'Neill, Jr. (Boston College '36), Speaker of the House ... A pure politics of nostalgia is inert. To be effective, memory must be mobilized in the service of the future. Of course the president was ... 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, ... impact of Reagan's policies in Chile and Nicaragua, and explores what future U.S. presidents could learn from Reagan's foreign policy ... Shortly before he became president, Reagan told an aide: “My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and some would say simplistic. It is ... President Reagan initially engineered large tax cuts, but as deficits grew proposed select tax increases. Over the course of his presidency, inflation and ... President Jimmy Carter took office in January 1977 as a Washington outsider, pledging to restore a sense a morality to both domestic and foreign policy. [Reagan's] significance stemmed less from the arms buildup and ideological offensive that he launched at the onset of his presidency in 1981 ... Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression as our 32nd President (1933-1945), Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain ...