Ronald Reagan A President Whose Legacy Still Divides Americans

Reagan's approach—applying intensive economic and military pressure to a superpower adversary—became foundational to American strategic thinking ... 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 ... This was the first time an American president had met with a Soviet leader in Moscow. ... When Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, Leonid ... But history will remember Reagan as the first Cold War president to preside over eight years of unbroken peace, the first to reach an arms reduction ... 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 ... 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 ... His wilderness protection achievements are an enduring legacy for the American people. President Reagan signed into law 38 bills that added more ... He said Reagan helped turn the American people against the federal government and cut taxes so much that the resulting budget deficits forced ... 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 ... Between 1984 and 2016, the Republicans were the party of Reagan, with his supporters claiming that he had reversed US economic decline, restored ...