Ronald Reagan A Giant on the American Political Landscape

He brought inflation, interest rates, and unemployment sharply down, and ushered in a reversal of New Deal/Great Society big government. He ... President Reagan showed a significant reduction in the number of unique words over time and a significant increase in conversational fillers and non-specific ... Indeed, by pledging U.S. power and legitimacy to defeating communism in Latin America, Reagan tapped into a deep tradition of asserting U.S. ... For 30 years Ronald Reagan has been a hero to Republicans and conservatives, his presidency regarded as the crucial moment when America ... Reagan strongly believed that American ingenuity could conquer technological obstacles. This belief is what drove his pursuit of SDI, despite ... Reagan's welfare reforms just made the poor poorer. When a three-year recession hit in 1980, six million more Americans fell into poverty. By ... 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, ... Much is being written about Ronald Reagan's successes in economics, politics and foreign affairs. Just as important was how he responded to his failures. For decades before coming into office, Reagan had criticized the spread of Soviet communism and the danger it posed. He compared communism to Nazism and ... He began a great increase in income inequality with his trickle down economics. That eventually led to an estimated $ 50 trillion in wealth ...