Reagan's Social Policy A Conservative Revolution

to the most damaging episode of Reagan's eight-year presidency. Key words: Ronald Reagan, colon cancer, 25th Amendment, surgery, stress, anesthesia, Iran-Contra ... In the 1980s, the Reagan administration illegally funded counter-revolutionary warfare in Nicaragua. As scandal engulfed Washington, the ... Rarely, however, are the controversies of the administration discussed by mainstream political figures in the US. They present a damming ... IN RETROSPECT, the record of Ronald Reagan's presidency is increasingly shadowed by three huge scandals. The Reagan administration came to ... The controversies and scandals included attacks on the federal school lunch program and aid to the poor, anti-union tactics, the illegal sale of ... On November 13, 1986, President Ronald Reagan addressed the country from the Oval Office about a growing scandal facing his administration. Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Sandinista government of exporting terrorism to El Salvador and in April 1981, Reagan terminated economic ... The second President to be impeached (following President Andrew Johnson), President Bill Clinton faced charges of perjury and obstruction of justice after ... 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 ... A series of scandals happened during the later years of Reagan's presidency. The most important one, called Iran-Contra, involved illegal sales of weapons to ...