Essays Tagged: "president ronald reagan"
Ronald Reagans Tax Cuts, and foreign policies
The Reagan Tax Cuts and Foreign PolicyDuring the 1980's President Ronald Reagan's (our 40th president from 1981 to 1989) domestic policy of a substantial ta ... late economic growth and curb inflation, he embarked upon a course to cut taxes and curb inflation. President Reagan was able to sign into law a tax cut in late 1981 even though congressional Democrat ... called for reduced defense spending and a tax increase in order to lower the deficit.Foreign PolicyPresident Reagan through foreign policy sought to achieve peace through strength. He had learned how ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies
Washington's Gunboat Gamble
r 25, 1983 United States troops invaded Grenada. How necessary was this invasion? The United States President, Ronald Reagan, said the the invasion was necessary in order to protect the lives of over ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Events of the 1980's
disgrace of Watergate the nation was ready to move ahead. Here was the oldest man ever to serve as president, Ronald Reagan was in his 70'a yet this boyish grin and rugged good looks still projected ... (AP, 1984). Unfortunately for the democrats, with the economy booming, so was Reagan's popularity. President Reagan and Vice President Bush won re-election, carrying 49 states and posting the greates ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Who influenced the conclusion of the cold war, Gorbachev or Reagan?
t. Two significant figures during the later years of the Cold war were Mikhail Gorbachev and former president Ronald Reagan. Gorbachev's goal was to ultimately rid the world of nuclear threat, and mos ... This was also when he began making proposals to eliminate all nuclear weapons. He met in 1985 with President Reagan at Geneva to discuss what should be done about the arms race. In order to emphasize ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
Social Issues in criminal Justice which involves Guns.
PRELUDEShortly after 2:30pm on Monday March 30, 1981, six shots rang out as President Ronald Reagan walked to his limousine in front of the Washington Hilton Hotel. Moments lat ... t of a Washington D.C. sidewalk in a pool of his own blood, hit in the head by an assassins bullet. President Reagan, the intended target of the crazed gunman, was shot in the chest just under his lef ... the chest just under his left armpit. Whisked away in a frenzied rescue by the Secret Service, the President was able to walk into George Washington University Hospital under his own power. Two hours ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights
Leveraging the Soviet Union's Economy for Cold War Success: Reagan's Impact, 1981 - 1989.
rom a nuclear shelter mentality to the rapture of peace in a matter of days, and the credit goes to President Reagan of the United States and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union. Their having come ... remarkable and historic coincidence, one of those surreptitious and fortuitous accidents of history.President Ronald Reagan, a man most renowned for ending the Cold War - a war that had divided the wo ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
"The Shift in Atomic Bomb Attitude" assignment: Why did attitudes change after the atomic bomb had been dropped?
e in attitude can be demonstrated by contrasting the first document, a white house press release by President Harry Truman, with the second document, a letter from President Ronald Reagan. The first d ... man concerned the offensive stance of the United States regarding the atomic bomb, and the other by President Ronald Reagan suggested a defensive side, needed for protection against possible aggressor ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
The Radical 21 (Argumentative Essay on Legal Drinking Age)
On June 28th, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the Minimum Drinking Age Act into law. This was a sad day for America ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Reagan, Russia, and the cold war (Includes some citations)
tility in a rising philosophy. The United States played a major role in the ending of the cold war. President Ronald Reagan ended the cold war with his strategic defense policies. The downfall of the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Decision-making Model Analysis
em (model) is the namesake of Malcolm Baldrige. Baldrige served as the Secretary of Commerce, under President Ronald Reagan, from 1981 until his death in 1987 from a rodeo accident.The Malcolm Baldrig ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Foreign Policy between Truman and Reagan.
The president of the United States is the head of the state of the United States. During 1945, Democrat ... an armed conflict in Korea, and the Cold War was firmly entrenched. Thirty years later, Republican President Ronald Reagan was elected on a strong anti-Soviet stance. A decade later, he had overseen ... , he had overseen the end of the Cold War. This discussion assesses the foreign policy of these two presidents and compares and contrasts the shifts during their time in office.Harry S. Truman was the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Irving Berlin Report.
he wrote songs for many Broadway musicals. One of his very popular films, a film in 1943, included president Ronald Reagan in the cast. Berlin was a very well known man to have a president in his sho ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Book Report: Noonan, Peggy. "When Character Was King". New York: Penguin Books, 2001. (Following Guidelines assigned by teacher)
journalism at New York University. In 1984, Noonan was recruited to the become special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. It was there that Noonan became acquainted with Reagan along with many of t ... the biography. In 1988, Noonan was asked to be chief speech writer for George Bush (Sr.) during his presidential campaign. She left the White house after one year and in 1989, wrote her first (bestsel ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Inability to Become Individuals. Essay based on the reading of " Six Degrees of Separation." , "The Catcher in the Rye." and "The Catcher in the Rye:Overview".
nnon, was carrying the book when he was arrested . John Hinckley, Jr., who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was also reported to have been obsessed with the book. In more rece ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Iran-Contra Affair
araguan guerrilla movement at a time when such aid had been band by congress. The administration of President Ronald Reagan confirmed two major foreign policy dilemmas in the mid-1980's, each with ser ... . This firearms for exchanged of hostages plan had four important drawbacks. First, it contradicted President Reagan's publicly stated his determination not to make any deals with terrorists. Second, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Mayor Ruduloph Giuliani
rsity Law School. He practiced law for four years before he was named associate attorney general in President Ronald Reagan's administration. Mayor Giuliani overcame many defeats; he lost his first ra ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Ronald W. Reagan
came one of the greatest governor of California. But his greatest accomplishment was being the best president of our modern time. This essay will be proving that Reagan indeed was the greatest preside ... test president ever! You will see all of his accomplishments proving how he really was the greatest president!Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 above the local bank in Tampico, Illinois. When ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Mayor Ruduloph Giuliani
rsity Law School. He practiced law for four years before he was named associate attorney general in President Ronald Reagan's administration. Mayor Giuliani overcame many defeats; he lost his first ra ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Did Reagen Win The Cold War?
ion, no doubt, was on its decline during the 1980s, and eventually dissolved and collapsed in 1990. President Ronald Reagan is attributed with bringing the cold war to an end, but the critic's say tha ... gan, at the beginning of his first term, drastically increased defense spending more than any other president in history during peacetime. Reagan believed in negotiating from strength; and although la ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Antonin Scalia (1936--)
1977 to 1982. He was named to the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan. Four years later he was nominated to the United States Supreme Court by Rea ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science