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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]
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 ...
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.
January 4 – In a joint session of the United States Congress, the results for the electoral college are counted.In his role as President of the Senate, Vice President George H. W. Bush reads the results and declares himself as the winner of the 1988 presidential election.
January 2 – A memorandum by President Reagan on the general system of preferences is filed with the Federal Register Office during the afternoon. [1] President Reagan sends a letter to Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill about his "intent to withdraw Romania and Nicaragua and suspend Paraguay from the list of beneficiary developing countries under the Generalized System of ...
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.
Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, leaned into the Reagan-era question to troll her former opponent on social media.
Blue-collar workers were, however, mostly left behind in the economic boom years of the Reagan Administration, and the old factory jobs that had once offered high wages to even unskilled workers no longer existed. [20] Reagan went on to defeat Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election by a massive 49 out of 50 state landslide.