Reagan's Legacy A Tapestry of Policies Impacting Modern America

It was Ronald Reagan's happiness, his optimism, his enjoyment of life and his undying belief in the inherent goodness and spirit of the American people that got ... Ultimately, by striving to end the nuclear arms race and avoid Armageddon, he contributed to the dynamics that led to the dissolution of the ... ... 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? His unflinching confidence in the ability and destiny of the American people helped to navigate our country through its clash with the Soviet ... Donald Trump's rise to the White House can be traced to President Reagan's economic policies that “hollowed out the middle class.” 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 vision of politics, economics and religion replaced the worldview introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Seeking relief for ... As Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency, he was greatly troubled by what he saw around the world. For more than three decades, the U.S. and ... The unemployment rate did not fall below 8 percent until 1984, nor below 6 percent until 1988. Still, Reagan could claim that his tax cuts had contributed to ... Reagan's ideas transformed American finance, global economics and world politics. They reverberated through Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China with the ...