Reagan assassination attempt

Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States and he served two terms, from 1981-1989. He defeated Jimmy Carter in a landslide of four hundred eighty-nine electoral votes to forty-nine in the election (Reagan). His campaign phrase was “Are you better than you were four years ago? (Jones). Before he was president he was elected Governor of California by a margin of a million votes in 1966 and was re-elected in 1970. Reagan studied economics and sociology at Eureka College and became…

shuttle exploded mid-flight. 74 year old Ronald Reagan was the president at the time of the incident. Reagan was only one year into his second term as president. He was fascinated with the space program so he played a big part in the rebuilding years after the tragedy. Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States in 1981, although he did not originally start out as a politician. He was born in Tampico, Illinois on February 6, 1911. Reagan began as an entertainer and starred in…

Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan once said “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one who gets the people to do the greatest things.” Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States and served from 1981 – 1989. Reagan was an actor, who made many films in the time before elected to the presidency. Ronald Reagan was a strong leader because he inspired, protected, and united the American people. Reagan inspired the American people. He stated…

What would our life be like now if we never had Ronald Reagan? Would it be the same or would there be a massive difference? People say life would have been better without him, but other disagree, many others. People say he was an amazing president and life would be horrible if it wasn’t for him. Ronald Reagan didn’t only help America, but other countries in need. He wasn’t only a great president, but a hero. Ronald Reagan did many things before and in his presidential career. All these things…

The historic period of the film started with Ronald Reagan as a young boy, speaking about him being a lifeguard for 7 years and pulling 77 people out of a river. Following his job in broadcasting where he became a radio announcer in his 20’s. Furthermore, he became an actor in Hollywood. Next a corporate spokesman for GE (General Electric) which was during the 1950’s before he became a politician. In addition, Reagan starred in several TV commercials and traveled to many GE plants around the…

The economic policies of Ronald Reagan became knows as Reaganomics. Reaganomics was composed of three key elements. His first policy was to cut taxes by 25% over a three-year period. His argument was that these tax cuts would create new investment while increasing federal revenues, which would "trickle down" to the lower classes by creating more jobs. This reasoning was known as the supply-side economics. The second component of Reaganomics was to cut social programs, like welfare, food stamps,…

Texas political alignment began as a strong and faithful for the Democratic Party. Through time however the political alignment switched from Democratic, to Republican, to a long lasting Democratic until turning back into the Republican alignment we have today. The particular rime and the economy of Texas was a large part of what cause these changes. To dive deeper into the changes of political alignment we have to understand who was in power at the time both in the national government and state…

originalist and a believer in the living constitution. Scalia’s brilliant views made him the leader of the conservative intellectual renaissance in his three decades on the supreme court. Antonin Gregory Scalia was appointed to the court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, as the first Italian American to become a member of the supreme court. On Sunday, February 13, 2016, the Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, was announced dead; “He was having health issues...He died of natural…

“Make America Great Again.” It is 2016, and Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for the US Presidency. He has the media in a frenzy with his preposterous statements. More jokes are made about Trump than all of the other presidential candidates combined. His plan for immigration and defense consist of building a wall on the Mexican border and banning all Muslims from the US. If Hillary Clinton had made these outrageous claims, she would not have made it more than a month into her campaign.…

Candidate Research from 1980 Election Ronald Reagan Cynthia Conway Casper College Candidate Research From 1980 Election Ronald Reagan The 1980 presidential election in the United States presented the desire of Americans to seek an alternative to President Jimmy Carter’s liberal policies that were deemed to be failing. Most voters complained about how the economy of the United States had remained stagnant in the 1970’s and thus called for the need to have changes in the White…