Reaganomics The Controversial Economic Experiment of the 1980s

Even after the whole world condemned Saddam Hussein for using chemical weapons to kill over 5,000 Kurdish civilians in Iraq, the Reagan ... Because throughout this period, Reagan's political ambitions were exploding. He had first become involved with the Screen Actors Guild in 1941, ... In September of 1986, President Ronald Reagan alongside his wife Nancy spoke to the nation in regard to their combined support to create strategies and policies ... Public concern with "the politics of personal destruction" burst into the political spotlight during the 1980s after President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert ... The controversy lingered regardless, as the Democratic Party accused Nixon of being a hypocrite for his constant attacks against financial ... The issue of drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan Contras has also been the subject of books: e.g., On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency, by ... Reagan's tax and budget proposals were nonetheless controversial. Cutting programs designed to help the poor, liberals argued, placed those Americans at even ... Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Sandinista government of exporting terrorism to El Salvador and in April 1981, Reagan terminated economic ... The controversies and scandals included attacks on the federal school lunch program and aid to the poor, anti-union tactics, the illegal sale of ... Rarely, however, are the controversies of the administration discussed by mainstream political figures in the US. They present a damming ...