Reagan's Role in the War on Drugs A Controversial Legacy

America's 40th president, Ronald Wilson Reagan, died 14 years ago today after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. 11 In contrast President Reagan has been promoting comprehensive tax reform, called 'Treasury Two,' as the centrepiece of his second term, and sees the drive ... Reagan strongly believed that American ingenuity could conquer technological obstacles. This belief is what drove his pursuit of SDI, despite ... He tripled the national debt and started the deregulation of Wall St. which set us on a pattern of financial chicanery that led to the 2008 ... by Burton Yale Pines Ronald Reagan's last day as President of the United States will be January 20. ... This violated a long traditio n in the ... The Reagan NLRB aggressively reversed precedents, and narrowed workers' rights, and workers are still feeling the effects of a number of key decisions made by ... Former executive assistant to Ronald Reagan, Peggy Grande, discussed the man, the president and his lasting impact on politics today during a public event. President Ronald Reagan signs economic reform legislation at his ranch in California. Note the blue jeans, denim jacket, and cowboy boots he wears. Reagan was ... 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 ... The low point of the Reagan presidency came in 1986 when it was reported that the United States had sold weapons to Iran and then funneled some ...