These challenges combined to weaken President Jimmy Carter’s reelection campaign. Once elected, President Ronald Reagan made it clear that his objectives were to cut taxes, fight communism, reinforce ...

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed, but felt they had no choice. That's what White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes ...

In junior high and high school from the mid-to-late 1980s, I began paying attention to politics, and I remember being particularly struck by President’s Ronald Reagan’s praise for the heroic ...

Ronald Reagan had a special gift for proving his critics wrong. Almost none of the leading economists of the late 1970s thought that his supply-side tax-cutting agenda, along with stable monetary ...

Ronald Reagan's efforts to eradicate Communism spanned the globe, but the insurgent Contras' cause in Nicaragua was particularly dear to him. Battling the Cuban-backed Sandinistas, the Contras ...