* Reagan Doctrine

During the Reagan administration, conservatives also supported the so-called " Reagan Doctrine " under which the U. S., as part of a Cold War strategy, provided military and other support to guerrilla insurgencies that were fighting governments aligned with the Soviet Union.

The effort to support the contras was one component of the Reagan Doctrine, which called for providing military support to movements opposing Soviet-supported, communist governments.

* Reagan Doctrine

In Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua and elsewhere, under the Reagan Doctrine, the U. S. began undermining Soviet-supported governments by supplying arms to anti-communist resistance movements in these nations.

* Reagan Doctrine

During his tenure at the White House, Rohrabacher played a leading role in the formulation of the Reagan Doctrine.

Daniel Henninger wrote, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, " Ronald Reagan tore down this wall ( the Fairness Doctrine ) in 1987 ... and Rush Limbaugh was the first man to proclaim himself liberated from the East Germany of liberal media domination.

; Doctrines: Truman Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine, Clinton Doctrine, Bush Doctrine, Powell Doctrine, Wolfowitz Doctrine, Obama Doctrine,

Primary advocates for supporting Massoud included two Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts, Michael Johns and James A. Phillips, both of whom championed Massoud as the Afghan resistance leader most worthy of US support under the Reagan Doctrine.

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.

* Reagan Doctrine

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.

The Reagan Doctrine was considered anti-Communist and in opposition to Soviet Union global influence, but later spoke of a peace dividend towards the end of the Cold War with economic benefits of a decrease in defense spending.

The Reagan Doctrine was strongly criticized by the neoconservatives, who also became disgruntled with the outcome of the Gulf War and United States foreign policy under Bill Clinton, sparking them to call for change towards global stability through their support for active intervention and the democratic peace theory.

The Bush Doctrine, and neoconservative reasoning, held that containment of the enemy as under the Realpolitik of Reagan did not work, and that the enemy of United States must be destroyed pre-emptively before they attack — using all the United States ' available means, resources and influences to do so.

* Reagan Doctrine

He also wrote that Hill " was a left-winger who'd never expressed any religious sentiments whatsoever ... and the only reason why she'd held a job in the Reagan administration was because I'd given it to her.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

The treaty was undisturbed until Ronald Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) on March 23, 1983.

On the one hand, Reagan stated that SDI was " consistent with ... the ABM Treaty ", but on the other hand, he viewed it as a defensive system that would help reduce the possibility that mutual assured destruction ( MAD ) would become reality ; he even suggested that the Soviets would be given access to the SDI technology.

The Soviets could not afford to ignore Reagan ’ s new endeavor, therefore their policy at the time was to enter negotiations with the Americans.

" After leaving office, Clinton's Gallup Poll rating of 66 % was the highest approval rating of any postwar, three points ahead of both Reagan and John F. Kennedy.

After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.

On January 8, 1982, just before the case was to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan authorized his Treasury and Justice Departments to ask that the BJU case be dropped and that the previous court decisions be vacated.

* On November 9, 1993, Powell was awarded the second Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, by President Ronald Reagan.

After U. S. support was banned by Congress, the Reagan administration tried to covertly continue contra aid.

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.

With the help of five Central American Presidents, including Ortega, it was agreed that a voluntary demobilization of the contras should start in early December 1989, in order to facilitate free and fair elections in Nicaragua in February 1990 ( even though the Reagan administration had pushed for a delay of contra disbandment ).

Both by critics and supporters of the Reagan administration, this was seen as a direct result of the administration's efforts concerning the contras.

In late 1972, the Legislature approved a reorganization ( suggested from a study initiated by then-Governor Ronald Reagan ), in which the Department of Public Works was merged with the Department of Aeronautics to become the modern Department of Transportation.

For example, during the 1980s, character ' Ron Headrest ' served as a doppelgänger for Ronald Reagan and was depicted as a computer-generated artificial-intelligence, an image based on the television character Max Headroom.

C. Everett Koop was the Surgeon General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan.

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.

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.

* On 23 June 1987, Kaye was posthumously presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan.

On August 10, 1988, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, based on the CWRIC recommendations, was signed into law by 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 ".

On October 1983, during the U. S. invasion of Grenada, U. S. President Ronald Reagan maintained that US Marines arrived on the island of Grenada, which was considered a Soviet-Cuban ally that would export communist revolution throughout the Caribbean.

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.

Although the bill was criticized by some, Nancy Reagan considered it a personal victory.

Some scholars have even considered that the FN's 1978 program may be regarded as " Reaganite before Reagan ".

There are two documented instances in which invocation of Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment was considered, both of which involved the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan.

Henry Fonda, James Stewart, and Ronald Reagan were all considered for the title role.

Reagan and most film critics considered Kings Row his best movie.

" White voters without college education — economically anxious and culturally conservative — were called " Reagan Democrats " when they were considered only seasonal Republicans because of Ronald Reagan.

In 1981, he was closely considered by the Ronald Reagan administration as a Supreme Court nominee.

Reagan later considered it one of the mainstays of his foreign policy as President of the United States.

* While recovering from an assassination attempt, President Ronald Reagan reportedly said, " All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia ", which alluded to the site of the 1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament's Final Four games held at the same time as Reagan's hospitalization.

Baker is considered to have had a high degree of influence over the first Reagan administration, particularly in domestic policy.

Going into the debate, Jimmy Carter had a narrow lead over Ronald Reagan in a race considered " too close to call.

Novak's political column once stated that he considered every single President in his lifetime to be a failure, with the lone exception of Reagan.

Once considered a solid conservative, Tower angered his party's right-wing when he supported the nomination of President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., as the Republican nominee in 1976 over former Governor Ronald W. Reagan of California.

She was a primary speech writer and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and in her political writings is considered a Republican.

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.

Mulroney enjoyed a close friendship with Reagan at the time ; both men considered themselves conservatives politically, and shared a common agenda on many issues, notably Free Trade.

Its naming was controversial, because Ronald Reagan was considered to be a champion of small government and the building was seen by some as an example of " big government " and government waste.

With titles such as " Plans for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy ," " Love and Napalm: Export USA ," and " Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan ," and by constantly associating the Kennedy assassination with a sexual or sporting event, the work has maintained controversy, especially in the United States, where some considered it a slur on the dead president's image.

During his tenure, Heflin was considered to have bipartisan support if he were nominated by President Reagan for a vacancy on the Supreme Court.