Reagan's Presidency A Time of Economic and Ideological Renewal

After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.” Like Roosevelt before ... 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 ... President Ronald Reagan had sent American troops to Lebanon earlier in 1983, hoping to stabilize a country ravaged by years of civil war. Their mission was ... Despite criticisms of his presidency, Jimmy Carter led major government reform efforts that had a lasting impact on agencies, employees and ... Because that's what it was to be an American in the 1980's. We stood, again, for freedom. I know we always have, but in the past few years the ... 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 ... 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 ... He sought to mend America's wounded spirit, to restore the strength of the free world, and to free the slaves of communism… His policies had a ... He felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of 1980 to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism." On February 6, 1911, ... Given actual rates of inflation, through 1987, the Reagan tax cuts saved the median-income two-earner American family of four close to $9,000 in taxes from what ...