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Reagan addresses Congress and the nation on his economic program, 1981. President Reagan's tenure marked a time of expanded economic prosperity for many Americans. The misery index sank to 9.72 from a high of 19.33, the greatest improvement record for a President since Harry S. Truman left office. [12]
Reagan and other conservative advocates of the Reagan Doctrine advocates also argued that the doctrine served U.S. foreign policy and strategic objectives and was a moral imperative against the Soviet Union, which Reagan, his advisers, and supporters labeled an "evil empire".
Reagan meeting with Afghan mujahideen leaders, 1983. Reagan ordered a massive defense buildup; [269] he revived the B-1 Lancer program that had been rejected by the Carter administration, [270] and deployed the MX missile. [271] In response to Soviet deployment of the SS-20, he oversaw NATO's deployment of the Pershing missile in Western Europe ...
California's Republicans and Democrats rush to create legislation in response to college campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. 55 years after Reagan took on Berkeley, Newsom stays in the ...
President Reagan, shown in 1981, based many of his policies on ideas from the Heritage Foundation publication "The Mandate for Leadership." Project 2025 makes up a majority of the latest edition ...
Reagan served as President during the last part of the Cold War, an era of escalating ideological disagreements and preparations for war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Reagan in 1982 denounced the enemy as an "evil empire" that would be consigned to the "ash heap of history" and he later predicted that communism would collapse. [6]
Reagan promotes "supply side economics", arguing that tax cuts will stimulate the economy, which suffers high unemployment and high inflation (called "stagflation"). [135] Reagan forms a coalition in Congress with conservative Democrats and passes his major tax cuts and increases in defense spending. He fails to cut welfare spending.
But a new poll conducted by the Ronald Reagan Institute shows that Americans still want our nation to lead, invest in the military and support our allies. Americans still support peace through ...