Reagan's War on Drugs A Failure of Policy

That November, Congress and the courts investigated what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. High officials of his administration had secretly approved the ... For proponents of public housing, the Reagan years are considered dark days. The Reagan administration sought to reduce traditional subsidies ... 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 ... Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Sandinista government of exporting terrorism to El Salvador and in April 1981, Reagan terminated economic ... A look into the wrongdoings of the Reagan administration and campaign, including the October Surprise, Debategate, MCA Records, the Inslaw and Wedtech scandals ... The book, which currently occupies the No. 1 spot on The Times's nonfiction best-seller list, portrays the president as a weakened man who struggled through ... The biggest scandal of the Reagan years, and the most significant constitutional crisis since Watergate, was the Iran-Contra affair. Reagan's tax and budget proposals were nonetheless controversial. Cutting programs designed to help the poor, liberals argued, placed those Americans at even ... What changed him? The usual story, pushed by his second wife, Nancy, is that Reagan rebelled against the high taxes that Hollywood's top earners ... Nov. 13, 1986: President Ronald Reagan made his Address to the Nation on the Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy and again addressed ...