The Power of American Presidents to Shape the World

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“I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose” (Brainy Quote, 2013). Woodrow Wilson outlines the primary objective and conception of an American President. They fight for the hard causes no matter the difficulty in order to further the American Dream. The executive branch is the heart of American politics and a symbol of freedom. Throughout American history, Presidents have clearly influenced American domestic politics as well as world dynamics. This essay explores the idea that throughout the United States history, American Presidents have developed, ushered, and enabled the United States to continue as a superpower on a world stage, employing economic, social, and diplomatic tactics.

The Presidents’ role is popularly defined by their sweeping economic policies leading America to become a superpower. Ronald Reagan the 40th President was one of America’s most famous modern Republican Presidents and is credited with providing the base to the modern Republican Party ideals. One of the most famous triumphs for Reagan was his supply-side economics policies or commonly known as Reaganomics (Cato.org, 2013). Reaganomics was the policy of reducing taxes in order to spur growth, which would come from the trickled down profits from corporations to the common people. The application of Reaganomics was able to grow the economy by 3.2 percent rather than a 2.8 percent growth in the Ford-Carter era, it was also able to grow the Family median income by 4,000 dollars while it lost 1,500 in post-Reagan era (Cato.org, 2013). One fatal flaw of Reaganomics was it did not account for people not being able to save their money and as a result on average savings decreased ...

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