Reagan's Impact The Lasting Legacy of His Policies

... can express those sentiments because Ronald Reagan really did. ... In terms of the way we feel about our country today, what do we give Ronald Reagan credit for? Reagan strongly believed that American ingenuity could conquer technological obstacles. This belief is what drove his pursuit of SDI, despite ... Reagan represented a generation for whom World War Two was living history, and therefore a usable past. The questions are inescapable: What is ... He has restored the American economy (a president's single most important domestic responsibility) even as he has frustrated the Left's ambition to ... Reagan's ideas transformed American finance, global economics and world politics. They reverberated through Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China with the ... Countless students still read it today. Why? What did Winthrop's sermon do for Perry Miller? And through Miller, what did it do for twentieth-century ... Reagan is the only Republican president that Democrats do not evaluate negatively, though the elder George Bush also gets relatively neutral ... The Reagan NLRB aggressively reversed precedents, and narrowed workers' rights, and workers are still feeling the effects of a number of key decisions made by ... ... War and his legacy as the “Great Communicator.” But Reagan's impact on the Supreme Court was also significant and still relevant today. Reagan's vision of politics, economics and religion replaced the worldview introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Seeking relief for ...