The Reagan Revolution Its Lasting Impact on American Policy

President Ronald Reagan unveils a new tax program, calling it "a second American Revolution for hope and opportunity." Upon taking office, Reagan called for a ... Reagan engineered a significant increase in U.S. defense spending designed to modernize existing forces and achieve technological advances the Soviet Union ... 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 brought inflation, interest rates, and unemployment sharply down, and ushered in a reversal of New Deal/Great Society big government. He ... The only movie actor ever to become president, he had a remarkable skill as an orator that earned him the title “the Great Communicator.” His policies have been ... President Reagan considered regulatory relief, in which the Department of Labor was destined to play a major part, one of the cornerstones of the Economic ... Politically, the Federal role in transportation, which had enjoyed bipartisan support for decades, had been challenged by President Ronald ... Reagan, who survived a 1981 assassination attempt, died at age 93 after battling Alzheimer's disease. Ronald Reagan's Childhood and Education. The combined effect of Reaganomics was a tripled national debt. But beginning in 1982, the U.S. economy did begin its longest peacetime expansion ever, lasting ... For 30 years Ronald Reagan has been a hero to Republicans and conservatives, his presidency regarded as the crucial moment when America ...