The S&L Crisis A Saga of Greed and Corruption

Carter, the 38th president, lost his bid for re-election in 1980 to Reagan amid voter disdain for Carter's handling of the Iran hostage crisis ... 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 ... Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Judge Douglas Ginsburg ... of the Nixon administration in the 1970s. "Now that they see what is ... Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Sandinista government of exporting terrorism to El Salvador and in April 1981, Reagan terminated economic ... Reagan's last shutdown echoed the most controversial scandal of his career—the Iran-Contra Affair. In it, his administration illegally sold ... 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 ... The Iran-Contra affair, the most serious scandal of the Reagan administration, arose from the intersection of dubious or illegal U.S. efforts to deal with ... The commitment to the application of the Reagan Doctrine eventually led to the Iran-Contra scandal, in which the administration provided funds ... In 1980, the country was facing economic hardship, oil shortages, and a long hostage situation in Iran, where more than fifty Americans were held captive by ... 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, ...