Unraveling the Savings and Loan Crisis The Reagan Era's Financial Meltdown

The quest to free American hostages in Lebanon ensnared the Reagan White House in a scandal that nearly ended the president's second term. The ... ... administration, such as the savings and loan and insider trading scandals, the Department of Housing and Urban Development scandal, and the Iran-Contra affair. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989): Iran-Contra Scandal ... President Ronald Reagan had two major international dilemmas in the 1980s - militants were holding American ... By Thom Hartmann Hartmann George HW Bush and Ronald Reagan were facing the possibility of treason charges. Who did they call? Bill Barr. The 1980s were a decade of scandals. The Iran-Contra Scandal proved that White House officials were willing to break the law to carry out their political agenda ... About this Item ; Created / Published. 4/7/1993. ; Headings. - Reagan, Ronald; - United States.--Department of Housing and Urban Development; - United States.-- ... ... President Gerald Ford for the 1976 presidential nomination. Reagan also spoke about the impact of the Watergate scandal on his party. "Face ... In 1994, five years after Ronald Reagan left the White House, the former president wrote a letter to the nation, revealing that he was “one ... 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 his first months in office, President Reagan approved covert training of anti-Sandinista rebels (called "contras"). While the contras waged war on the ...