The Untold Story of Reagan's Post-Presidential Impact

Reagan wrote as a supporter of the conservative Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. Reagan had spent much of his political career campaigning and voting for ... That's not a good thing. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., was right to compare Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan. He just missed the biggest similarities. The major plank of Reagan's 1980 campaign was the proposal to effect large reductions in US income taxes. The theoretical foundation on which ... President Ronald Reagan served from 1981-1989 and is remembered for his Reaganomics policies, the war on drugs, and other political ... Many Americans credit Reagan with reducing the size of government. In reality, he increased government spending, cut taxes and turned the United ... Reagan's 1981 Program for Economic Recovery had four major policy objectives: (1) reduce the growth of government spending, (2) reduce the marginal tax ... His union and the government - they'd been fighting over wages, among other things, and the union decided to strike. Ronald Reagan was on TV to ... Elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan fought communism in the film industry and grew more conservative. As host of "GE Theater," he toured the ... “Reagan was fond of Tip and completely believed that Tip wanted to help the little people. He just disagreed about how to do it.” Matthews ... Ronald Reagan was America's most ideological president in his rhetoric, yet pragmatic in his actions. He believed in balanced budgets, but never submitted one.