Exposing the Savings and Loan Crisis A Reagan-Era Disaster

Nov. 13, 1986: President Ronald Reagan made his Address to the Nation on the Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy and again addressed ... In his first months in office, President Reagan approved covert training of anti-Sandinista rebels (called "contras"). While the contras waged war on the ... ... This exposé broke the story that unleashed the greatest political scandal of Ronald Reagan's presidency and gave rise to one of the greatest challenges ... ... administration, such as the savings and loan and insider trading scandals, the Department of Housing and Urban Development scandal, and the Iran-Contra affair. It details why institutional and personal factors endowed Reagan with political security against the scandal and enabled the restoration of his presidency. Part ... President Reagan instituted tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and implemented market deregulation. Reaganomics was influenced by ... A second affair occurred between Harding and a young woman he called his niece, which lasted into his presidency. The woman, who was secured a ... The three stars of the Tower Commission acquitted him of an Irangate cover-up on the discreet but unmistakable grounds that the old gentleman had not been told ... The second President to be impeached (following President Andrew Johnson), President Bill Clinton faced charges of perjury and obstruction of justice after ... Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Judge Douglas Ginsburg ... of the Nixon administration in the 1970s. "Now that they see what is ...