Word: iran-contra
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...history books as the man who not only stood up for the cause and defense of freedom around the world but also paved the way for the collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe and the breakup of the U.S.S.R. Notwithstanding the controversies and intrigues, like the Iran-contra scandal, that plagued him by the end of his term, the Great Communicator will always be remembered as a true American patriot who defended his beliefs and, through the strength of his convictions plus sheer determination, reasserted the U.S.'s position as the global economic and military superpower that...
...history books as the man who not only stood up for the cause and defense of freedom around the world but also paved the way for the collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe and the breakup of the U.S.S.R. Notwithstanding the controversies and intrigues, like the Iran-contra scandal, that plagued him by the end of his term, the Great Communicator will always be remembered as a true American patriot who defended his beliefs and, through the strength of his convictions plus sheer determination, reasserted the U.S.'s position as the global economic and military superpower that...
...height of the Iran-contra scandal, there was some anxiety in the White House that Reagan might actually be impeached, and yet many Americans seemed to forgive him as easily as he forgave himself. When he left office just a year later, his approval rating with the public stood...
...years of red suspenders and corporate takeovers, of Bonfire of the Vanities and big hair, were shorter than they seem in memory. They began around the middle of his first term, after the 1981 recession gave way to the boom years, and ended midway through his second, when Iran-contra broke and so in some ways did Reagan's spell. But however briefly they lasted, those years habituated us to a giddy, swaggering, saw-toothed capitalism that seemed a bit appalling then. It feels much more familiar now. Because the country had lived through the '80s, through all those poison...
...drawing too close to the Soviets and Cuba. There were setbacks, of course - the 1983 bombing by Hezbollah of a Marine barracks in Beirut that saw 241 U.S. soldiers killed, and prompted a hasty withdrawal that was later cited by al-Qaeda as evidence of American weakness. And the Iran-Contra scandal exposed a seamy side to the administration's proxy wars. Still, on balance his decade is remembered as one in which America recovered from the setbacks of the 1970s to resume its role as the visionary strategic leader of the Western world in facing down all challenges...