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The Reagan administration sold over 2000 missiles to Iran without informing Congress; Hezbollah released four hostages but captured an additional six Americans. On the initiative of Oliver North, an aide on the National Security Council, the Reagan administration redirected the proceeds from the missile sales to the Contras. [188]
Although the Reagan administration agreed with the communist government in China to reduce the sale of arms to Taiwan in 1982, [283] Reagan himself was the first president to reject containment and détente, and to put into practice the concept that the Soviet Union could be defeated rather than simply negotiated with. [284]
November 24 – Reagan administration officials says the president's conflict with Congress on the issue of government spending is a mere preview of an upcoming conflict for President Reagan to gain reductions in the 1983 budget he will seek in two months.
It is precisely the types of policies that devastated the nation during the Reagan administration that Project 2025 now seeks to resuscitate. Perhaps the only truly new thing Project 2025 suggests ...
During the Reagan Administration, federal receipts grew at an average rate of 8.2% (2.5% attributed to higher Social Security receipts), and federal outlays grew at an annual rate of 7.1%. [23] [24] Reagan's administration is the only one not to have raised the minimum wage by its conclusion. [25]
But the Reagan administration turned its back on the welfare model established by his predecessors, in favor of the political-economic theory and ideology of neo-liberalism. The neo-liberals ...
The Reagan administration considered revoking EO 11246 in 1985, at the initiative of Attorney General Ed Meese. President Reagan backtracked on his plan to repeal the 1965 executive order. Jean ...
When an administration staff member leaves office, federal law governs how quickly one can begin a lobbying career. Michael Deaver, Reagan's Chief of Staff, was convicted of lying to both a congressional committee and to a federal grand jury about his lobbying activities after he left the government.