Reagan's Enduring Legacy A Transformative Presidency

Election Day, Reagan wins 59% of the popular vote and 98% of the electoral vote. Defeats former Vice-President Walter Mondale. 1985. 02/06/1985. State of ... Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak ... Reagan was reelected in a 49-state landslide in 1984, and his vice president, George H. W. Bush, won a solid victory in 1988 by promising to continue Reagan's ... In keeping with the Reagan Doctrine, he gave support to anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America, Asia, and Africa. Overall, the Reagan years saw a ... A onetime movie star and president of the Screen Actor's Guild (1947–1952), Reagan was originally a Democrat but turned to the Republican Party ... Several statistics of the Ronald Reagan Foundation tout significant achievements that resulted from Reaganomics over President Reagan's 8 years ... Reagan later explained in his memoirs that his support of tax cuts came from personal experience as a highly paid actor in Hollywood in the 1950s who had to pay ... From cutting taxes to raising tariffs to eroding central-bank independence, US President-elect Donald Trump has made a wide range of ... 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 ... The Lasting Legacy of Reagan's Speech ... In the aftermath of the Berlin Wall's fall, many began to reevaluate Reagan's earlier speech, viewing it ...