The Reagan Doctrine A Controversial Foreign Policy Strategy

The Reagan administration announces trade embargo against Nicaragua in an attempt to undermine the Sandinista government. This embargo was later found to be in ... 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 ... Rarely, however, are the controversies of the administration discussed by mainstream political figures in the US. They present a damming ... While President Reagan has lost public esteem as a consequence of the Iran-. Contra arms scandal, so have other institutions, including the press. Favorability ... 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, ... Public concern with "the politics of personal destruction" burst into the political spotlight during the 1980s after President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert ... After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, he became the only President to ever ... Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Judge Douglas Ginsburg ... of the Nixon administration in the 1970s. "Now that they see what is ... ... of arms to Iran by Republican President Ronald Reagan's administration and the unlawful diversion of the proceeds to Nicaraguan rebels. About this Item ; Created / Published. 4/7/1993. ; Headings. - Reagan, Ronald; - United States.--Department of Housing and Urban Development; - United States.-- ...