Reagan's Impact on the American Religious Landscape

Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States on January 20, 1981. His presidency marked a significant shift in American politics, ... “He looks like a Filipino.” Reagan accepted this unflinchingly. He started wearing wide-collar shirts to make his neck look longer and combing ... In his reign, these tax cuts lowered the marginal tax rates from 78% to a mere 28%. For those unaware, a marginal tax rate is the additional ... The efforts of academics, conservative think tanks, and political leaders on emphasizing markets and reducing government paid off after the election of ... As Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency, he was greatly troubled by what he saw around the world. For more than three decades, the U.S. and ... What isn't so easy to forgive is the Reagan Doctrine, sometimes known as Third World Rollback. Rollback was the American end of the proxy war ... Reagan's final legacy is that he reignited Americans' optimism and restored Americans' faith in the presidency. We had become very pessimistic in ... Still, Reagan's popularity went up in 1988 when he helped bring an end to the Cold War, a long period of tensions between the United States and the former ... One was an avid capitalist, an actor-turned-U.S. president determined to quash America's nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union's “evil ... Reagan strongly believed that American ingenuity could conquer technological obstacles. This belief is what drove his pursuit of SDI, despite ...