The Iran-Contra scandal had a big effect on the United States but it had a huge effect on Nicaragua. Through out 1985-86‚ the Reagan administration was selling weapons to Iran illegally in order to encourage Iran to free hostages in the Middle East. Meanwhile‚ the Reagan administration wanted to support the Contras in Nicaragua‚ a rebel group fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government. The administration decided to use the money made from selling arms to Iran‚ and had it sent to the Contras
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Baker‚ Johnson was able to know the inner workings of politics. Ronald Reagan also worked very hard to have good relationships in politics although he talked about Washington as if he’d never visited the place. Lyndon Johnson used a specific method to get to know important people called retail politic. In retail politics‚ a politician wins over one person at a time by learning about them specifically. Unlike LBJ and Reagan‚ Jimmy Carter lacked the charsima to win over people. Then Speaker of the
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spending policy which did slow down spending as expected. Reagan then created what is known today as Reaganomics‚ with Reaganomics President Reagan promised reduced federal programs‚ deeper tax cuts for wealthy Americans‚ and he made the government smaller. In July of 1981 President Reagan announced his intentions of cutting down the budget by $41 billion. He referred to this proposal as a second American revolution for hope and opportunity. Reagan believed by lowering taxes it would make companies be
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federal government‚ and anticommunism. These documents‚ all by different important leaders in the movement‚ address these beliefs. Influential people of the conservative movement included William F. Buckley Jr.‚ Russell Kirk‚ Barry Goldwater‚ Ronald Reagan‚ along with some other politicians. Russell Kirk wrote The Conservative Mind‚ in which he laid out his ‘six canons of conservative thought’. William F. Buckley founded the National Review. The National Review was a journal that was published in order
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Throughout President Ronald Reagan’s’ campaign of 1980‚ a recipe aimed at fixing the nations economy then was born. President Reagan asserted that excessive government regulation‚ massive social spending programs and undue tax burden hindered growth. President Reagan suggested a 30% tax cut that would be rolled out in 3 years while in office. Most of the tax cut would go to the upper income level individuals to enable the rich invest and create more jobs. These major policy modifications were aimed
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warfare had made its way into the country‚ and after all these years‚ it has made its fair share of positive and negative effects. “Just say no.” (Reagan Declares War on Drugs‚ 1982). This was one of the many scare tactics used in America’s new war on drugs. The president needed to construct a plan to detract the public eye from drugs’ fame. Nancy Reagan was equally as adamant about keeping America safe and clean. She traveled to and spoke at many schools‚ enforcing the idea of simply refusing the
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reaching around 119 percent of GDP in 1946 after the end of the war followed by the state and local debt of next 7 percent addition to it. After that‚ for following 35 years‚ the governments had brought down the debt. But‚ after the arrival of President Reagan the success of the government relating to debt started its step towards negativity.
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In the film They Live‚ the director John Carpenter criticized 80s America on how it treated poverty and the working class. President Reagan established the idea of supply side and trickle down economy through Reagonomics. This was used to fix stagflation‚ which is a combination of inflation and unemployment. Through his film‚ Carpenter shows what the effects were from Reagonomics in the city of Los Angeles. Carpenter’s stance is that he is against it due to the fact that poverty is growing while
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it be two men from two different eras‚ speak distinct words‚ yet were able to articulate the same exact message? Well in “Remarks at the Rudolph Wilde Platz” speech by President John F. Kennedy and the “Brandenburg Gate” speech given by President Reagan these men conducted precisely such act. With this in mind‚ both men did infact share the same ambition. In spite‚ of their sole purpose they did have diversities in their speeches. Whether it be different techniques of persuasion and‚ or rhetorical
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investigations of the operations began after a cargo plane had crashed on its way to the Contras. A Lebanese newspaper‚ Al-Shiraa‚ broke the story. President Reagan Denied the allegations for many days but finally admitted that they were true. During the time President Reagan was denying the allegations he continued to say they were “utterly false” (Hoff‚ 678). Reagan was convincing America that “Our government has a firm policy not to capitulate to terrorist demands” but eventually knew he could hide it no longer
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