Reagan's Transformative Presidency Lasting Legacy

Ronald Reagan liked to tell stories. · Humor and amiability weren't the only reasons Reagan was the most successful president of the last half- ... 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 ... Reagan said he hoped the new panel would develop “a bipartisan plan to achieve long-lasting solutions to Social Security's financing problems.”. In reality, he increased government spending, cut taxes and turned the United States from a creditor to a debtor nation. During his presidency, ... It was Reagan who revived the war on drugs, which for all intents and purposes, had become moribund under the administration of President Jimmy ... Ronald Reagan was elected US President in 1980, partly due to his criticism of the Soviet Union and his staunch anti-communist stance. Reagan engineered a significant increase in U.S. defense spending designed to modernize existing forces and achieve technological advances the Soviet Union ... White House aides in the first term. Deaver, a long-time Reagan aide, was a public ... "Ronald Reagan's Legacy and American Conservatism." In The Enduring. Reagan ... Reagan was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild, the labor union for actors, where he worked to root out Communist influence. In the 1950s, he ... In the late 1970s, Reagan told Richard Allen, who would become his first National Security Adviser, that his long-term strategy for dealing with the Soviet ...