Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Evans says that after the Second World War, more presidents started to come from Congress, with the exception of Carter and Reagan...
Skocpol, author of the book States and social Revolutions, began by identifying what she felt were the achievements of the Reagan Revolution...
...Reagan administration's "greatest accomplishment, I think, has been the undermining of people's confidence that government can do things," said Skocpol. "They suceeded in raising doubt about their own efficiency...
...last time the Central American governments coordinated a peace negotiation was in 1987 in Guatemala, when both the Reagan Administration and the Democratic Speaker of the House were concocting their own plans for the region. The regional agreement, known as the Arias Plan, was met with distrust and discouragement from the Republicans...
While the arch-anti-Communist Guatemalan government managed to trust Nicaragua to hold its part of the bargain, Ronald Reagan did not give them the chance. In urging further funding for the Contras, he explicitly violated a major provision of the treaty--that all outside help to guerrilla groups...