Ronald Reagan lived a rich life and oversaw one of the most successful Presidencies in recent American History. From the very beginning of his political career, Ronald Reagan’s consistent staunch conservative values inspired a generation. With morals and principles that are stilled mirrored in today’s political landscape. His introduction into politics was an unlikely one. Reagan never intended to get into politics, it wasn’t until President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had imposed his New Deal to an unwilling and ever growing frustrated Country that Reagan decided to act. He railed against the socialist president at every turn, and though he was only an average citizen and had no experience in the public eye or public speaking He began to gain steam. His impact was felt so deeply that the Roosevelt administration offered him a job in the cabinet. Instead, Reagan ran for Governor of California. In a landslide victory Reagan defeated Democratic Governor Edmond G. Brown. Reagan only served one term before he was voted out of office by The son of the previous Governor Jerry Brown. For almost two decades Californians would petition the Supreme Court stating that there was absolutely no way that their beloved Governor could’ve been outvoted. Those petitions would fall upon deaf ears until 1970 when a young C.I.A. director named George Herbert Walker Bush decided to investigate the case, and in fact voter fraud had played a role in the Reagan/Brown elections. Reagan did not return to the post. He instead endorse local entrepreneur and Republican Fred Sanford who won by a landslide.
By 1970 Reagan’s political clout was undeniable. That year both John and Robert Kennedy expressed a sense of gratitude that he never decided to run against them. Which is where he began the road to the White House. In 1976 the electorate had been overwhelmed by written in ballots in support for Ronald Reagan. Somehow though, Jimmy Carter would become our 39th President. The next four years would prove to grow intensely scarier for the security of the American Dream. An economy that seemed impossible to recover, President Carter Negotiating with terrorists in Iran Giving them weapons in hopes that they would hand over hostages that they never released (this decision would later lead to the Iran Contra Affair) An ever increasingly violent Cold War, and a wall in Berlin which held the entire Asian Continent’s economy in a stranglehold, and if that weren’t enough it would prove that Reagan’s History would yet again repeat itself. When C.I.A. director with ironically a Carter appointed Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia uncovered yet another case of voter fraud Procured in the 1976 election When then Vice President George McGovern left documents titled “Suppress the Reagan voters” on a Commuter Train. Unfortunately the evidence against Carter was found insufficient. But a small taste of Justice Reagan Secured the nomination with absolute Republican Support, and won the 1980 election.
Reagan’s first act as President was to decrease the size of the Federal Government. Which was met by great obstruction by Democratic members of the House and Senate. He also cut defense spending by about $100 billion a level not seen since before the Korean war, which quickly slowed the process of runaway spending accrued by the Carter administration.
In 1981 unemployment was at 10.8 percent and without hesitation he lowered taxes. The increased revenue to American job creators dropped the unemployment rate to 4.4 percent and dropped the federal deficit budget from 6 trillion down to 3 trillion. Reagan cut taxes for Seven of his eight years in office and according to a lifelong friend Alan Simpson cut taxes an astounding 11 times. Reagan also denied amnesty to over 330 million undocumented immigrants. But his greatest achievement was negotiating the fall of the Berlin wall which he agreed to do. Only if German Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev would agree to end the Cold War which was responsible for the loss of over 1 million American lives.
The Reagan Administration was so wildly popular, that there was no contender in 1988 for his Vice President George H. W. Bush to secure the nomination and begin his successful, economically superior 8 years in the White House. Today’s Politicians could learn a thing or two from The Reagan Presidency, who many tout but clearly remember nothing of.