Ronald Reagan A President Who Defined an Era

He has restored the American economy (a president's single most important domestic responsibility) even as he has frustrated the Left's ambition to ... The Reagan era or the Age of Reagan is a periodization of recent American history used by historians and political observers to emphasize that the ... 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 ... Indeed, by pledging U.S. power and legitimacy to defeating communism in Latin America, Reagan tapped into a deep tradition of asserting U.S. ... 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 ... For 30 years Ronald Reagan has been a hero to Republicans and conservatives, his presidency regarded as the crucial moment when America ... The benefits to the average American will be striking. Inflation -- which is now at double digit rates -- will be cut in half by 1986. The American economy will ... Reagan made more than $22 billion in cuts to social welfare programs, including federal student loans and the Comprehensive Employment and ... The manufactured versions of reality today are a time-warp distance from the reality-adjusting narratives that Ronald Reagan, as Winston details ... When President Reagan took office, he promised to rebuild the nation's defenses, restore economic growth, and trim the size of the federal government.