Reagan's Vision Inspiring a Generation of Leaders

Presidential Statements. This is an archival or historical document and may not reflect current policies or procedures. President Ronald W. Reagan. Thumbnail ... This Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's birth. The anniversary offers historians and politicians an opportunity ... Shortly after the 1980 presidential election, former President Richard Nixon sent an eleven-page memorandum to then-President-elect Ronald ... GWEN IFILL: Ronald Reagan was the oldest man ever to serve as president, the longest-living ex-president, and the first American president to ... It disproportionately targeted EPA rules and acted with little transparency, allowing business influence to go unchallenged. Reagan also created the ... Reagan's economic program had two major components: tax reductions and budget cuts, which took center stage, and monetary policy, which was as important but ... 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, who took office in 1981, enacted sweeping changes that would completely reshape the American economy and society. The combined effect of Reaganomics was a tripled national debt. But beginning in 1982, the U.S. economy did begin its longest peacetime expansion ever, lasting ... Reagan became president in 1981, when Americans had grown weary of a government that had been expanding incessantly since Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.