This movement produced some of the strongest supporters for Reagan's policies during his term in office.

He was one of the more prominent Democratic supporters of Ronald Reagan's tax-cut package in 1981.

Later, Salvatori was one of Reagan's initial supporters for governor of California, having served as state finance chairman for his 1966 campaign and as part of Reagan's " kitchen cabinet ".

" Iraq did not oppose then President Reagan's September 1, 1982 Arab-Israeli peace initiative, and it supported the moderate Arab position at the Fez summit that same month.

When Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis posed naked for Playboy, donating half her $ 100, 000 fee to PETA, the group issued a press release saying Davis " turns the other cheek in an eye-opening spread ," then announced she had been photographed naked with Hugh Hefner's dog for an anti-fur ad.

One example of a failed effort to create a new NSC organ in the hopes of improving interagency coordination and reducing friction among the Departments of State and Defense, the CIA, and the NSC, was President Reagan's order on March 24, 1981, naming then Vice President George Bush as chair of a proposed administration crisis management team.

In later decades, Wasserman would become a guiding force in Reagan's political ambition by helping Reagan to win the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ), then election as Governor of California in 1966, and finally President of the United States in 1980.

Kirkpatrick then became a foreign policy adviser throughout Reagan's 1980 campaign and presidency and, after his election to the presidency, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, a position she held for four years.

Reagan's foreign policy was generally considered more successful and well thought out then his domestic.

In what he calls a " second fluke ", he was then transferred to President Reagan's staff as a special assistant and speechwriter, where he wrote the famed 1987 Tear down this wall address.

David Stockman, who as Reagan's budget director championed these cuts at first but then became skeptical of them, told journalist William Greider that the term " supply-side economics " was used to promote a trickle-down idea.

Wedtech then began extending its reach to the White House, utilizing President Reagan's press secretary, Lyn Nofziger, to contact public liaison officer ( and future Senator ) Elizabeth Dole.

On June 7, Reagan's casket was transported by hearse and displayed at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, then flown to Washington, D. C. on June 9 for a service, public viewing and tributes at the U. S. Capitol.

Former President George H. W. Bush then spoke, his voice breaking at one point when describing Reagan ; Bush had been Reagan's Vice President from 1981 to 1989.

During the 80s, WGAY was reported to be then President Ronald Reagan's favorite radio station.

James Baker swore under oath that he had received the briefing book from William Casey, Reagan's campaign manager, but Casey, then campaign manager, now CIA director, vehemently denied this.

Nancy had noticed that her name had appeared on the Hollywood blacklist and sought Reagan's help to maintain her employment as a guild actress in Hollywood, and for assistance in having her name removed from the list.

Since Reagan's presidency, the non-profit American Security Council Foundation ( ASCF ) has sought to influence United States foreign policy by promoting the idea.

The convention is notable in that it featured the last major address of former President Ronald Reagan's long political career.

The key vote of the convention occurred when Reagan's managers proposed a rules change that would have required Ford to publicly announce his running mate before the presidential balloting.

The Detroit convention kicked off Reagan's campaign to a landslide election.

This move backfired to a degree, as Schweiker's relatively liberal voting record alienated many of the more conservative delegates who were considering a challenge to party delegate selection rules to improve Reagan's chances.

NBC's Brian Williams, who attended a dinner with Reagan in mid-2008, recalled, " Mrs. Reagan's vision isn't what it always was so she was taking very halting steps as a lot of folks her age do ... t is so important for folks in her age bracket and in her bracket of life to remain upright and captain of their own ship.

Citing Podesta's influence in the formation of the Obama Administration, a November 2008 article in Time stated that " not since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan's transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway.

If the news media are so unqualifiedly bad, the book should at least explain why so many publications ( including my own ) can cite their stories to attack President Reagan's Central American policy.

Buoyed by Ronald Reagan's massive national landslide that year ( Reagan carried the 5th with 60 percent of the vote ), Kolbe won by 6, 000 votes, becoming the first and so far only Republican to represent the Arizona-Mexico border region in the House.

Laxalt eventually acceded to Reagan's request, even though doing so severely jeopardized his relationship with the Ford White House.

( The Deacon was so named because of the previous role of the actor who played him ( John Barron ) as a Cathedral Dean in the sitcom All Gas and Gaiters ; the writers claimed not to know at the time that Alexander Haig, Reagan's first Secretary of State, was known as The Vicar in the White House.

None of them seriously believes that this work of fiction will really make someone take a potshot at the president, and anyway, the attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life came out of a crazy guy's fascination with Jodie Foster, so you may as well decry movies starring blonde former child actresses.

Commonly-cited examples of dog-whistle politics include civil rights-era use of the phrase " forced busing ," used to enable a person to imply opposition to racial integration without them needing to say so explicitly ; the state of Georgia's adoption, in 1956, of a flag visually similar to the Confederate battle flag, itself understood by many to be a dog-whistle for racism ; the phrase " Southern strategy ," used by the Republican Party in the 1960s to describe plans to gain influence in the South by appealing to people's racism ; Ronald Reagan, on the campaign trail in 1980, saying in Mississippi " I believe in states ' rights " ( a sentence the New Statesman later described as " perhaps the archetypal dog-whistle statement "), described as implying Reagan believed that states should be allowed, if they want, to retain racial segregation ; Reagan's use of the term " welfare queens ," said to be designed to rouse racial resentment among white working-class voters against minorities ; a 2008 TV ad for Republican presidential candidate John McCain called " The One ," which observers said dog-whistled to evangelical Christians who believed Obama might be the Antichrist ; a Tea Party spokeswoman saying President Obama " doesn't love America like we do ," thought to be an allusion to Obama's race and to the birth certificate controversy, and Republicans frequently emphasizing Obama's middle name for the same reason ; an aide to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney saying Romney would be a better President than Obama because Romney understood the " shared Anglo-Saxon heritage " of the United States and the United Kingdom ; former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, and others, calling Obama " the food stamps president " said to be a way of exploiting stereotypes among racially resentful white voters who see food stamps as unearned giveaways to minorities.

Governor Reagan's term ended in 1975, and he did not run for a third ; instead, he met with advisors to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

Similarly, in 1976, Gerald Ford had severely criticized Reagan's proposal to turn back a large part of the Federal budget to the states.

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

He continued working on behalf of Republican candidates, and backed Ronald Reagan's primary challenge to incumbent Gerald Ford in 1975.

Ronald Reagan is credited with increasing spending on national defense and diplomacy which contributed to the end of the Cold War, deploying U. S. Pershing II missiles in West Germany in response to the Soviet stationing of SS-20 missiles near Europe, negotiating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ( INF ) to substantially reduce nuclear arms and initiating negotiations with the Soviet Union for the treaty that would later be known as START I, proposing the Strategic Defense Initiative, a controversial plan to develop a missile defense system, re-appointing monetarists Paul Volcker and ( later ) Alan Greenspan to be chairmen of the Federal Reserve, ending the high inflation that damaged the economy under his predecessors Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, lowering tax rates significantly ( under Reagan, the top personal tax bracket dropped from 70 % to 28 % in 7 years ) and leading a major reform of the tax system, providing arms and other support to anti-communist groups such as the Contras and the mujahideen, selling arms to foreign allies such as Taiwan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq ( see Iran – Iraq War ), greatly escalating the " war on drugs " with his policies and Nancy Reagan's " Just Say No " campaign, ordering the April 14, 1986 bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for an April 5 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub frequented by U. S. servicemen, in which the Libyan government was deemed complicit, and signing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which compensated victims of the Japanese American Internment during World War II.

Under recommendations and pressure by this committee, President Gerald Ford issued Executive Order 11905 ( ultimately replaced in 1981 by President Reagan's Executive Order 12333 ) to ban U. S. sanctioned assassinations of foreign leaders.

Sears managed Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential bid when Reagan ran in the Republican primaries against incumbent President Gerald Ford and almost won the nomination.

Reagan's chief speechwriter at the time, Anthony R. Dolan, reportedly coined the phrase for Reagan's use.

* George R. Robertson – Barry Goldwater, Republican U. S. Senator from Arizona and key figure in Reagan's rise in the Republican Party

SDI research was cut back following the end of Reagan's presidency, and in 1995 it was reiterated in a presidential joint statement that " missile defense systems may be deployed ... will not pose a realistic threat to the strategic nuclear force of the other side and will not be tested to ... that capability.

He gave the Democratic response to President Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address and served as Chair of the National Governors Association from 1986 to 1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas.

Powell served as Reagan's National Security Advisor from 1987 – 1989.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

Further deterioration occurred as a result of the Sept. 1, 1983 Soviet shoot down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island carrying 269 people including a sitting US congressman, Larry McDonald, and over Reagan's stationing of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe.

“… the study concludes that the increased Soviet defense spending provoked by Mr. Reagan's policies was not the straw that broke the back of the Empire.

The Afghan war and the Soviet response to Mr. Reagan's Star Wars program caused only a relatively small rise in defense costs.

From 1981 to 1988, he was one of President Reagan's senior speech writers.

He also helped formulate President Reagan's Economic Bill of Rights, which was a series of policy proposals that Reagan introduced in a speech at the Jefferson Memorial.

Likewise, David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's most influential financial official in 1981 was an acknowledged follower of Hayek.

* Douglas H. Ginsburg, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Ronald Reagan's nominee to the United States Supreme Court

In Reagan's account, McFarlane told Reagan that the Iranians, to demonstrate their seriousness, offered to persuade the Hezbollah terrorists to release the seven U. S. hostages.

After the perpetrator of President Reagan's assassination attempt was found not guilty by reason of insanity, Congress passed the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984.

By 1980, Cagney was contributing financially to the Republican Party, supporting his friend Ronald Reagan's bid for the presidency in the 1980 election.

An early Kemp tax reform attempt was an unsuccessful 1979 proposal to index tax brackets for cost of living fluctuations, which was incorporated in Reagan's 1980 package.

When he formed his exploratory committee, he signed Ed Rollins, Reagan's 1984 re-election political director, as an advisor.

To position himself as Reagan's successor, Kemp called for Shultz's resignation based on claims that Shultz had neglected freedom fighters in Afghanistan and Nicaragua and had waffled on SDI.