Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

• The Great Communicator

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• In 1980, Republican Ronald Reagan defeats
  Jimmy Carter in the presidential election.

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• Ronald Reagan is sixty-nine when elected
  president. The oldest president ever elected, but
  few consider him a senior citizen.

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• He had been a Hollywood film star and he knows
  how to use television as no president before him.

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• A few months after he takes office, a would-be
  assassin takes aim at the president on a
  Washington street and puts a bullet into his lung.

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• As Reagan is wheeled into the operating room, he
  says to his wife, Nancy. Honey, I forgot to
  duck.

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• Reagan doesnt joke when it comes to his ideas.
  He knows exactly what he believes, and he
  explains those beliefs clearly and simply.

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• In a complex world that is harder and harder
  to understand, he seems reassuring and honest and
  old-fashioned.

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• It is 1981, and Reagan is about to bring a
  radical change of direction to American politics,
  and be very popular doing it.

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• Reagan is anti-tax, anti-union, and fiercely
  anti-communist. He wants to reduce the size of
  the government.

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• He wants to cut spending on welfare programs,
  eliminate most government regulation of business,
  take the federal government out of the field of
  education, and balance the budget.

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• Reagan also wants to build up the armed forces
  and increase military spending.

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• How do things turn out for Mr. Reagan? Well, by
  the end of the 1980s, the United States is the
  worlds greatest superpower, and very wealthy.

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• But in most inner cities, schools, bridges,
  roads, and buildings are falling apart. Urban
  crime is soaring. Some education statistics are
  in a free fall.

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• Access to good health care is not equal to
  that in most developed nations. Aids is ignored
  as it develops into a national epidemic.

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• Balancing the budget is one of Reagans key
  goals. He is very critical of the deficit (U.S.
  debt), which, under Carter in 1979, seemed very
  high.

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• Reagan believes that if he can cut taxes and
  public welfare programs, and eliminate as much
  regulation of business as possible, it will
  stimulate the economy and tax revenues will
  increase.

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• Increased revenues would pay for the huge
  increase in military spending that Reagan
  believes necessary to continue to fight the Cold
  War.

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• Under Reagan, Congress enacts the single
  largest tax cut in our history. That does
  stimulate the economy, which increases tax
  revenues and the total taxes paid by those in the
  higher income range.

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• Before Reagans tax reform, of each dollar the
  government collected in taxes, thirteen cents
  came from corporations, afterwards, the corporate
  share is eight cents.

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• Programs directed at the poor and middle class
  are reduced by 41 billion. The gap between rich
  and poor grows tremendously.

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• At the same time, Congress embarks on a 1.6
  trillion military expansion.

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• What happens to the national debt? It goes
  from 383 billion in 1980 to 2.3 trillion in
  1988. Reagans deficits total more than the
  deficits of all the presidents before him
  combined.

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• Some companies arent prepared for the
  responsibilities that go with their new freedom
  (no regulation.) Savings Loan associations,
  created to lend money to ordinary people to buy
  houses, make speculative investments.

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• Many of the mortgage banks go broke when the
  value of their investments falls, in the end the
  savings loan bailouts costs the taxpayers an
  estimated 481 billion.

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• At the same time, libraries, museums, national
  parks, and other public institutions find
  themselves with less government aid.

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• Spending on education drops 15 percents. And
  with the federal government doing less, city and
  state governments grow enormously during the
  Reagan years.

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• Again and again, Ronald Reagan speaks out on
  the dangers of Russian communism. He calls the
  Soviet Union an evil empire.

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• Then something remarkable happens, President
  Reagan and Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev begin
  talking to each other. The talk about the dangers
  of nuclear war, and about grandchildren.

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• The discussion leads to productive arms-control
  agreements. The following year, the president
  visits Berlin, Germany. The city has been divided
  in two since 1961.

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• In West Berlin, people are free to come and go
  and practice democracy. In East Berlin, the
  communist government has fenced in its own
  people.

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• There, a strong, well-guarded wall, built right
  through the middle of the city, keeps East
  Germans from visiting friends and family. It is
  the symbol of the Cold War.

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• Ronald Reagan stands before it and says
  bluntly, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

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• Economic forces are at work in the eastern
  Soviet-bloc nations that will indeed cause the
  wall to tumble.

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• Gorbachev, who is a communist but also a
  realistic leader, is aware that Russia needs to
  change.

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• Reagan the Cold Warrior is anxious to become a
  peacemaker. In 1988, Reagan goes to Moscow, this
  time as a friend of the Russian premier. The two
  leaders realize they have a chance to change
  history.

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• They can end the insane arms race that has been
  so costly to both nations and has affected the
  whole world.

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• A year later, in 1989, the Soviet Union breaks
  into pieces. Yes, the Soviet Union, the U.S.S.R.,
  the land we call Russia, falls apart.

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• The country doesnt collapse militarily, but,
  as a political system, communism has failed. The
  Cold War is over.

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• The burden of ever-growing military
  expenditures wrecked Russias economy. The U.S.
  was spending trillions on military.

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• Television lets Soviet citizens, see the
  success of free nations. The Russian people have
  had enough of communist repression. It hasnt
  worked.

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• They throw communism out. It is stunning and it
  is peaceful. The world had changed politically.
  There is no great giant for the United States to
  battle anymore.

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