The Reagan Revolution Its Enduring Impact on American History

He was the man to bring Conservatism officially into the Government. Most of what made him a great influence was during his presidency when he begn his plan to ... GWEN IFILL: Ronald Reagan was the oldest man ever to serve as president, the longest-living ex-president, and the first American president to ... President Ronald Reagan's 1987 call to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall is considered a defining moment of his presidency. In April 2021, our nation marked the 40th anniversary of the attempt to assassinate President Ronald Wilson Reagan. On March 30, 1981, President Reagan and ... 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 ... Reagan engineered a significant increase in U.S. defense spending designed to modernize existing forces and achieve technological advances the Soviet Union ... 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, ... Two years into Ronald Reagan's presidency, federal regulations go unenforced, incomes have decreased and social services were slashed. 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 ... Ultimately, by striving to end the nuclear arms race and avoid Armageddon, he contributed to the dynamics that led to the dissolution of the ...