How was he successful and vice versa?
it would be great to provide links, as i am writing a term paper..
2007-12-04 14:52:38 · 8 answers · asked by IN0C3NT 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
how about how it represented the republican party?
2007-12-04 15:34:10 · update #1
and comparing him to Theodore Roosevelt..
2007-12-04 15:34:53 · update #2
Ronald Reagan*
2007-12-05 15:35:02 · update #3
The proper spelling is Reagan.
He improve the United States Military.
His economic policies improve the country long term prosperity.
2007-12-05 02:22:34 · answer #1 · answered by David_the_Great 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very complex question.
I would say a good area of investigation would be to discuss how he backed away from his aggressive cold war rhetoric sometime in 1983 when the Russians, totally freaked out by American saber-rattling "big talk", almost launched an attack on the USA based on their suspicion that a US military exercise was a cover for a nuclear attack.
Reagan was apparently appalled at this close call, and came to realize that his most persistent and militant advisors, which ironically included BACK THEN Mr. Cheney, Mr. Perle and Mr. Rumsfeld, were in fact probably severly deluded men.
In his last years in office, Reagan attempted a very pacificist course of action and I would say that this represented the only really substantive thing he did during his presidency and for which he should be applauded.
Otherwise, one could say I think that he talked a good game, made lots of mistakes, a few really horrible decisions, and made greed respectable once again in America.
The idea that he "defeated" the USSR is so incredibly wrong-headed historically that one wonders if the American people will swallow any swill that is thrown at them. This was a fake revision of history concocted by his worshippers.
if anything, Reagan's crazed war-spending and angry words came close to killing us all. He rolled the dice....REALLY big dice....and ended up scaring himself.
2007-12-04 15:00:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
wow...some great answers...you will not likely find many who can direct you to factual positives on the guy that could be used in a term paper. for many Americans he was like a big honkin' cheeseburger...looks good, tastes good, but, in the final analysis...is bad for you.
2007-12-04 15:10:28 · answer #3 · answered by bilez1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you use anything Here to Help said, you will get a failing grade and the rest of the class will laugh at you. History will record President Reagan as one of the best Presidents we ever had, and President Carter as one of the worst.
2007-12-04 15:15:19 · answer #4 · answered by Johnny Reb 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Reagan successfully:
- grew the largest federal government in US history
- grew the largest deficit in US history
- furnished Iran with military weapons (Iran/Contra)
- supported Saddam Hussein's rise to power
..http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=saddam+rumsfeld&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
- cut and ran after 241 US Marines were killed in Beirut
..http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html
- took the credit of ending the Cold War when it was thousands of dedicated intelligence agents over 4 decades that ended the cold war.
2007-12-04 14:56:28 · answer #5 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 7⤊ 3⤋
Single handidly crushed the Soviet Union without firing a single bullet.
Convinced a generation of Americans that the United States really is the greatest nation in the history of mankind after Carter's dismal failures. (Remember the misery index stated on the nightly news?)
Among other things.
2007-12-04 14:58:54 · answer #6 · answered by Pancakes 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Can be summed up in three words. I DON'T RECALL!
2007-12-04 15:07:41 · answer #7 · answered by grumpyoldman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hey!
he got a street named after him here in GA so i think he was pretty big!
2007-12-04 14:55:45 · answer #8 · answered by ¬¬ 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋