Ronald Reagan Influence On American Presidents

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The most recent Republican Presidents started with the fortieth President of the United Sates, Ronald Reagan. He was President from 1981-1989 and is considered as one of the best Presidents in the history of the U.S. Before his presidency, Reagan served as the Governor of California after being an actor and union leader. Even before that, Reagan grew up in a poor family in Illinois. He graduated from Eureka College and worked as a sports announcer. After getting elected for President, he implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. The term "Reaganomics" began to be used to refer to his economic policies that advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, control inflation, and reduce government spending. To get reelected he campaigned that it was "Morning in America" winning with the largest electoral college victory in history. Foreign affairs such as ending the Cold War, the bombing of Libya, and the Iran-Contra affair, made up a majority of his second term. After leaving office in 1989, he had an approval rating of sixty-eight percent, the highest in the modern era. too add to his conservative ideas, he followed God and once …show more content…

W. Bush was elected as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989-1993. Growing up in Massachusetts, he ended Yale and became a businessman and politician. Before his Presidency, "He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives and Director of Central Intelligence, among other positions." (Wikipedia) He also enlisted into the Navy due to Pearl Harbor and delayed his attendance to Yale because of it. To get elected, he pushed foreign policies such as military operations in Panama and the Persian Gulf, Germany, and the Soviet Union. In spite of his foreign policy success, he experienced economic recession, budget deciliter, and struggle with Congress which is why he eventually lost to Bill

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