Reagan's Lasting Impact A Conservative Legacy Unraveled

GWEN IFILL: Ronald Reagan was the oldest man ever to serve as president, the longest-living ex-president, and the first American president to ... Still, Reagan's popularity went up in 1988 when he helped bring an end to the Cold War, a long period of tensions between the United States and the former ... What did President Reagan accomplish? ... Ronald Reagan had many accomplishments. Among these was helping to bring about the end of the Soviet Union and ... Politically, the Federal role in transportation, which had enjoyed bipartisan support for decades, had been challenged by President Ronald ... ... did so at the height of the Cold ... American right wing led by Ronald Reagan. This probably averted a long guerrilla war that would have ... Since Ronald Reagan left office -- and particularly after his death -- his shadow has loomed large over American politics: Republicans and many Democrats ... Reagan's economic legacy is mixed. On the one hand, tax reduction and a tightening of interest rates by the Federal Reserve led to a record period of peacetime ... One was an avid capitalist, an actor-turned-U.S. president determined to quash America's nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union's “evil ... Reagan's domestic policies had a major impact on the American people and have had for many years. He followed up the passage of the largest tax cut in U.S. ... What isn't so easy to forgive is the Reagan Doctrine, sometimes known as Third World Rollback. Rollback was the American end of the proxy war ...