Trevor Aaron Long Cultivating the Reagan Revolution Communication Skills Early broadcasting and acting career Iowa Hawkeyes 1937 screen test Knute Rockne All American Kings Row Narrator and Actor for General Electric Theatre ID: 391315
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Ronald Reagan: The Life, Times, and Achievements of a Right Wing Revolutionary
Trevor Aaron LongSlide2
Cultivating the Reagan Revolution: Communication Skills
Early broadcasting and acting career
Iowa Hawkeyes
1937 screen test
Knute
Rockne: All American
King’s Row
Narrator and Actor for General Electric TheatreSlide3
Cultivating the Reagan Revolution: The Political Development of Ronald Reagan
Anti-Communist activities as President of the Screen Actor’s Guild
Dispute between SAG and the Conference of Studio Unions
Exposing of Communist sympathizersSlide4
Cultivating the Reagan Revolution: A Time for Choosing
Rendezvous with destiny
We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope for man on earth, or will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be doneSlide5
Cultivating the Reagan Revolution: Reagan as leader of the Conservative Faction
Elected California Governor: 1966
Influence at the 1968 RNC
1976 ElectionSlide6
1980 Presidential Election
Primary contest against George Bush
General Election: Criticism of Carter’s economic policy, SALT II
Presidential Debate: “There you go again” “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Slide7
Reagan Presidency: Inauguration
“Government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem”
Emphasis on the extent of the Carter RecessionSlide8
Reagan Presidency: Reagan Tax Cuts
Boll Weevils
Whittling away at the Great Society
25% Tax CutSlide9
Reagan Presidency: Monetary Policy
Paul Volcker’s tightened interest rates
Unpopularity
Reaction to the Carter RecessionSlide10
Reagan Presidency: Recession Years
Recession 1981-1982
Perceived failure of Reagan’s domestic policy
Approval Rating of 35%
Deficit of $113 Billion
11% UnemploymentSlide11
Reagan Presidency: The Prosperous Years
Rise in GNP
Sinking Unemployment
Controlled Inflation
Stock Market ExplosionSlide12
Reagan Presidency: What led to the Prosperity
Reagan tax cuts
Tax Increases: “They don’t call it Reaganomics anymore…”
Paul Volcker
Defense Spending Slide13
Reagan Presidency: 1980’s Disparity
Overall rise in income
9% rise for the affluent
8% decline for the poor
Child PovertySlide14
Reagan Presidency: 1986 Tax Law
Tax Cuts with no loopholes
Larger tax base?
Corporate alienation
Failures: There still were loopholes, high real estate taxesSlide15
The Reagan Presidency and AIDS
Early aloofness
Death of Rock Hudson
Billion Dollar AIDS Budget
Everet
Koop’s three preventions: Abstinence, Condoms, and MonogamySlide16
Ronald Reagan and the Soviets: Contentious years
Evil Empire speech
Military buildup
Objectives of the buildup: Strengthening of the military in case of war, persuading European allies that the United States would not abandon them, and encouraging the Soviets to come to the bargaining table
Strategic Defense InitiativeSlide17
Ronald Reagan and the Soviets: The Gorbachev Years
Perestroika and Glasnost
Retreat from Afghanistan?
Geneva talks
Reykjavik talks
Berlin Wall speech (video)
INF TreatySlide18
Reagan and Iran Contra
Reagan Doctrine
Contras
Iran arms trade
Evolution of the policySlide19
Greatest Successes
Reagan boom
Anti-Soviet policies
Reagan RevolutionSlide20
Greatest Failure
Iran Contra