Regardless of the opposition, Reagan gave every indication that SDI would not be used as a bargaining chip and that the United States would do all in its power to build the system.

A modern-day Cadillac hearse ; this one was used to transport the body of former US President Ronald Reagan during his Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan | state funeral

* In 1940, actor Pat O ' Brien portrayed Rockne in the Warner Brothers film Knute Rockne, All American in which Rockne used the phrase " win one for the Gipper " in reference to the death bed request of George Gipp, played by Ronald Reagan.

A long-range radar antenna ( electronics ) | antenna, known as ALTAIR, used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with anti-ballistic missile | ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site | Ronald Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll.

It was quoted by President Ronald Reagan in a speech to Congress, and used during the 1984 presidential elections.

Rather, the phrase " ash heap of history " appeared in this speech, used by Reagan to predict what he saw as the inevitable failure and collapse of global communism.

When asked by a reporter whether he still thought the Soviet Union was an " evil empire ," Reagan responded that he no longer did, and that when he used the term it was a " different era "; that is, the period before Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost reforms.

The term " weapons of mass destruction " continued to see periodic use throughout this time, usually in the context of nuclear arms control ; Ronald Reagan used it during the 1986 Reykjavík Summit, when referring to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.

" Reagan used that line as the title of his 1965 autobiography.

In the 1980s, the domino theory was used again to justify the Reagan administration's interventions in Central America and the Caribbean region.

During the Cold War, under Ronald Reagan's Reagan Doctrine, the term freedom fighter was used by the United States and other Western Bloc countries to describe rebels in countries controlled by communist states or otherwise under the influence of the Soviet Union, including rebels in Hungary, the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua, UNITA in Angola and the multi-factional mujahideen in Afghanistan.

The phrase " silent majority " has also been used in the political campaigns of Ronald Reagan during the 1970s and 1980s, the Republican Revolution in the 1994 elections, and the victories of Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, both of whom were at the time Republicans, in the New York City Mayoral races of the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ).

In 1982 the Reagan administration used the Sherman Act to break up AT & T into one long-distance company and seven regional " Baby Bells ", arguing that competition should replace monopoly for the benefit of consumers and the economy as a whole.

Reagan Democrat is an American political term used by analysts to denote traditionally Democratic voters, especially white working-class Northerners, who defected from their party to support Republican President Ronald Reagan in both the 1980 and 1984 elections.

The term also hearkens back to Richard Nixon's Silent Majority ; a concept that Ronald Reagan himself used during his political campaigns in the 1970s.

Nancy Reagan used him to relay messages to the Cabinet.

The phrase is quite old, it has famously been used by many leaders from Roman Emperor Hadrian in the first century AD, to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

Ronald Reagan used the phrase in political campaigning during his election challenge against Jimmy Carter in 1980, accusing the incumbent of weak, vacillating leadership that invited enemies to attack the USA and its allies.

At some point ( usually said to be during his time in the Reagan Administration ) Perle acquired the nickname " The Prince of Darkness ", which has been used both as a slur by his critics and as a joke by supporters.

Until recently, it was actively utilized by the Reagan Test Site for tracking activities during missions, and has been one of the only non-restricted Marshallese-populated islands used by the United States Army.

Ronald Reagan used other prominent Catholics in his government to brief the pope during the Cold War.

The Reagan administration, as part of a wider campaign against leaks of information, used the prosecution of Morison as a " test case " for applying the Act to cover the disclosure of information to the press.

US President Reagan also actively hindered the Soviet Union's ability to sell natural gas to Europe whilst simultaneously actively working to keep gas prices low, which kept the price of Soviet oil low and further starved the Soviet Union of foreign capital.

* 1986-Iran-Contra Affair: White House officials sell weapons to Iran and give the profits to Contras ; President Reagan embarrassed

The auto industry was given breathing space after the Reagan administration imposed voluntary import restraints on Japanese manufacturers ( allowing them to sell a maximum of 1. 3 million vehicles in the US per year ) and imposed a 25 % tariff on all imported trucks ( a lighter 3 % tariff was put on passenger cars ).

After Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980, FOE led the opposition to Interior secretary James G. Watt's efforts to sell and lease public lands in the West and develop land adjacent to the National Parks.

Nonetheless, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan remained unresolved, and Sino-Soviet diplomacy remained cool, which circumstance allowed the Reagan government to sell American weapons to Communist China and so geopolitically counter the USSR in the Russo – American aspect of the three-fold Cold War.

Much discussion has occurred regarding the optimum capital gains tax rate, with some advocates calling for tax cuts in the belief that a lower rate ( e. g., under 25 %) will provide an incentive to investors to sell old stocks and invest in new stocks — which supply siders maintain encourages the creation of new jobs, reduces unemployment, and has the paradoxical effect of increasing tax revenues more or less immediately, an idea first proposed by economist Arthur Laffer while an advisor to Ronald Reagan ( See Laffer curve ).

By the mid-80s, CIA Director William Casey had taken the practice to the next level: an organized, covert " public diplomacy " apparatus designed to sell a " new product "- Central America-while stoking fear of communism, the Sandinistas, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, and anyone else considered an adversary during the Ronald Reagan presidential administration.

According to this conspiracy theory, Reagan promised to sell American weapons to Iran, to replace the old Portuguese ones ; the Portuguese military were acting as middlemen ( two of the Portuguese Presidential candidates, in 1980, were Generals, and one of them was promptly accused as responsible for the assassination by many Sá Carneiro supporters ); a boat with the weapons was almost seized at Lisbon's harbor.

Both Ronald Reagan ( left ) and Strom Thurmond ( right ) played influential roles in the political life of BJU

By now the group had become a de-facto political force, pitting itself against rising elements of American social and political life such as the religious right, Ronald Reagan and the idle rich.

Elsewhere, but lost according to conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro out to Howie Mandel when producer Bruce Paltrow learned Schultz was a fan of President Ronald Reagan.

In the 1980s President Ronald Reagan sought to curtail scope of environmental protection taking steps such as appointing James G. Watt who was called one of the most " blatantly anti-environmental political appointees ".

In the early 21st century, Kemp continued to be considered along with Reagan as the politician most responsible for the implementation of supply-side tax cuts and along with Steve Forbes as the political figure most responsible for their continued place in the marketplace of political ideas.

Both authors are staunch conservatives: on his website, Groseclose cites Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, Dick Armey, and Dick Cheney as his political heroes, and states that he usually sides with conservatives on controversial issues.

* 2011 – Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan ( b. 1931 )

* 2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan ( b. 1924 )

Gorbachev's attempts at reform as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War, ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ), and led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The Nicaraguan political opposition and the Reagan administration claimed political restrictions were placed on the opposition by the government.

Despite international validation of the elections by multiple political and independent observers ( virtually all from among U. S. allies ) the United States refused to recognize the elections, with President Ronald Reagan denouncing the elections as a sham.

Author and political commentator William Safire, in his political dictionary, traced the term " trickle-down economics " ( common in the Reagan era ) to Bryan's statement that some believe that government should legislate for the wealthy, and allow prosperity to " leak through " on those below.

In his book The Cold War Gaddis argues that, in their use of the phrase " evil empire ," Reagan and his anti-Communist political allies were effective in breaking the détente tradition, thus laying the ground for the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.

One of his earliest political activities was leading a group of NDP MPs who heckled former US President Ronald Reagan while he was speaking at the House of Commons in support of the Strategic Defense Initiative and aid to the Contras.

Tom Reagan ( Byrne ) is the long-time confidant of Leo O ' Bannon ( Finney ), an Irish American political boss who runs a Prohibition-era city.

Many bands took left wing political stances and were vocally against Republican U. S. President Ronald Reagan, who served in office from 1981 to 1989.

political analyst, Zbigniew Brzezinski, described the NSC as entering its " Mid-Life Crisis " during the Reagan years.

Ronald Reagan would later visit Devonshire Downs for a political rally when he was running for his first term as President of the United States of America.

All the presidents since Ronald Reagan have appeared, as well as other political and media figures.

The development of the doctrine was influenced by neoconservative ideology, and it was considered to be a step from the political realism of the Reagan Doctrine.