Search results
Feb 3, 2011 · SANTA BARBARA — February 3, 2011. Greatest Achievements of President Reagan. The tax cuts of 1981. Signed in August, these enactments were a major reduction in domestic expenditures and the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, were designed to lower federal revenues over a five year period in the amount of $737 billion. Documents:
Jan 20, 1981 · William J. Casey, 67, a lawyer and long-time Reagan friend, ran his campaign last fall. Casey is a Fordham graduate and was London headquarters chief of the Office of Strategic Services in World ...
Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like The conservative coalition of the 1980s sought to: a. ensure the civil rights of all Americans b. scale back the welfare state c. expand the interstate highway system d. increase regulation of the banking industry e. reform the election process, Members of the Moral Majority: a. were in favor of legalization of some narcotics b ...
In the Iran-Contra affair, the Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to Iran to effect the release of American hostages held in Lebanon. Money from the Iran weapons-sale then was used to fund the Contras, a group of guerrilla “freedom fighters” opposed to the Marxist government of Nicaragua. Both the sale of arms to Iran and the ...
The Reagan administration's most celebrated domestic achievement during its second term was the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Faced with ever-larger budget deficits and a growing national debt, the administration had raised taxes in 1982 and 1984 and won legislation in 1983 that restored financial solvency to the Social Security program.
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was a United States trade union that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike broken by the Reagan administration; in striking, the union violated 5 U.S.C. (Supp. III 1956) 118p (now 5 U.S.C. § 7311 ), which prohibits strikes by federal ...
Affair. In 1986, members of the Reagan National Security Council illegally sold arms to Iran in the hope that Iran would put pressure on terrorist groups holding American hostages in Lebanon to release them. In addition, funds received from the sale of the arms were illegally transferred to
