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The Reagan era or the Age of Reagan is a periodization of recent American history used by historians and political observers to emphasize that the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronald Reagan in domestic and foreign policy had a lasting impact. It overlaps with what political scientists call the Sixth Party System ...
Reagan's former budget director, championed Reagan's tax cuts at first, but only a few years later sided with liberal critics that "supply-side economics" is "trickle-down" [43] [44] Political opponents of the Reagan administration soon seized on this language to brand the administration as caring only about the wealthy. [45]
February 1 – White House Chief of Staff James Baker says the Reagan administration inherited the worst economy in 50 years, that it will be the number one "priority of the administration" and that President Reagan will explain the economy in a televised speech in four days during an appearance on Face the Nation. [14]
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who forged a conservative revolution that transformed American politics, is pictured waving to well-wishers on the south lawn of the White House on April 25 ...
Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following his landslide victory over Democrat incumbent president Jimmy Carter and independent congressman John B. Anderson in the 1980 presidential election.
However, University of Texas historian and Reagan biographer H.W. Brands notes that the man who would become the nation's 40th president adopted the slogan during his first campaign for California ...
Perhaps no day in Reagan’s presidency better embodied his policy transformations or the political ambitions of the Heritage Foundation than Aug. 13, 1981, when Reagan signed his first budget.
Reagan portrayed himself as a political outsider, [105] and charged Brown as responsible for the Watts riots and lenient on crime. [104] In numerous speeches, Reagan "hit the Brown administration about high taxes, uncontrolled spending, the radicals at the University of California, Berkeley, and the need for accountability in government". [106]