Reagan's Environmental Policies A Questionable Record

President George H. W. Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and five other officials who served under Ronald Reagan for ... Reagan was renominated in 1984 and won by a landslide against challenger Walter Mondale. During this term, Reagan was touched by scandal when the administration ... Monica Lewinsky Scandal ... President Reagan receives the Tower Commission Report in the Cabinet Room with John Tower and Edmund. 6/15. Credit. Courtesy of the ... IN RETROSPECT, the record of Ronald Reagan's presidency is increasingly shadowed by three huge scandals. The Reagan administration came to ... The Iran-Contra affair was one of the biggest political scandals during the Cold War and threatened to bring down Reagan's presidency. In 1985, ... Reagan's economic policies highlighted his long-standing dislike of high federal income taxes. Reagan embraced the theory of "supply side economics," feeling ... When the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the 1980s, the Reagan administration's first reaction was chilling: It appeared to treat the epidemic as a joke. In the “Iran-Contra” scandal, Reagan's administration bypassed congressional restrictions on aiding Nicaragua's Contra guerilla fighters, in ... Here is a start - Iran-Contra, HUD scandal, EPA/Superfund controversy, Michael Deaver, Lyn Nofziger, Edwin Meese, James Watt, S&L bailout, ... 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 ...