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457 relations: Abortion in the United States, Abstinence-only sex education, Adjustable-rate mortgage, Affirmative action in the United States, Afghanistan, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Airstrike, AK-47, Al-Qaeda, Alan Greenspan, Alan Simpson (American politician), Alexander Haig, Alzheimer's disease, American exceptionalism, American Political Science Association, Andrew Mellon, Ann McLaughlin Korologos, Anne Gorsuch Burford, Anthony Kennedy, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Anti-communism, Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Antonin Scalia, Apartheid, Argentina, Armed Forces of Guatemala, Arms control, Arms embargo, Arthur Laffer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Barry Goldwater, Beirut, Berlin Wall, Bill Brock, Bill Clinton, Bitburg, Black Monday (1987), Blowback (intelligence), Bob Dole, Boland Amendment, Bowers v. Hardwick, Brezhnev Doctrine, Brian Mulroney, Budget sequestration, C. Everett Koop, California, Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement, Capital gains tax in the United States, ... Expand index (407 more) »
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- Presidencies of the United States
Abortion in the United States
Abortion is a divisive issue in the United States.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Abortion in the United States
Abstinence-only sex education
Abstinence-only sex education (also known as sexual risk avoidance education) is a form of sex education that teaches not having sex outside of marriage.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Abstinence-only sex education
Adjustable-rate mortgage
A variable-rate mortgage, adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM), or tracker mortgage is a mortgage loan with the interest rate on the note periodically adjusted based on an index which reflects the cost to the lender of borrowing on the credit markets.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Adjustable-rate mortgage
Affirmative action in the United States
In the United States, affirmative action consists of government-mandated, government-approved, and voluntary private programs granting special consideration to groups considered or classified as historically excluded, specifically racial minorities and women.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Affirmative action in the United States
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Afghanistan
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was a federal assistance program in the United States in effect from 1935 to 1997, created by the Social Security Act (SSA) and administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provided financial assistance to children whose families had low or no income.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Airstrike
An airstrike, air strike, or air raid is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Airstrike
AK-47
The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova (also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is an assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and AK-47
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Al-Qaeda
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan
Alan Simpson (American politician)
Alan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician from Wyoming.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Alan Simpson (American politician)
Alexander Haig
Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (December 2, 1924February 20, 2010) was United States Secretary of State under president Ronald Reagan and White House chief of staff under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Alexander Haig
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Alzheimer's disease
American exceptionalism
American exceptionalism is the belief that the United States is either distinctive, unique, or exemplary compared to other nations.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and American exceptionalism
American Political Science Association
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and American Political Science Association
Andrew Mellon
Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 – August 26, 1937), known also as A. W. Mellon, was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Andrew Mellon
Ann McLaughlin Korologos
Ann McLaughlin Korologos (born Ann Marie Lauenstein; November 16, 1941 – January 30, 2023), formerly known as Ann Dore McLaughlin, was an American corporate executive who served as the 19th United States secretary of labor from 1987 to 1989.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Ann McLaughlin Korologos
Anne Gorsuch Burford
Anne Irene McGill Gorsuch Burford (April 21, 1942 – July 18, 2004), also known as Anne M. Gorsuch, was an American attorney and politician.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Anne Gorsuch Burford
Anthony Kennedy
Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) is an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 until his retirement in 2018.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Anthony Kennedy
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, also known as the ABM Treaty or ABMT, was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Anti-communism
Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Anti-communism
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was a law pertaining to the War on Drugs passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 is a major law of the War on Drugs passed by the U.S. Congress which did several significant things.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Antonin Scalia
Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Apartheid
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Argentina
Armed Forces of Guatemala
The Guatemalan Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas de Guatemala) is the unified military organization comprising the Guatemalan Army, Navy, Air Force, and Presidential Honor Guard.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Armed Forces of Guatemala
Arms control
Arms control is a term for international restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation and usage of small arms, conventional weapons, and weapons of mass destruction.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Arms control
Arms embargo
An arms embargo is a restriction or a set of sanctions that applies either solely to weaponry or also to "dual-use technology." An arms embargo may serve one or more purposes.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Arms embargo
Arthur Laffer
Arthur Betz Laffer (born August 14, 1940) is an American economist and author who first gained prominence during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981–1989).
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Arthur Laffer
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump
On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, a former president of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election, survived an assassination attempt while addressing a crowd at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Attempted assassination of Donald Trump
Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president in 1964.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater
Beirut
Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Beirut
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany).
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Berlin Wall
Bill Brock
William Emerson Brock III (November 23, 1930 – March 25, 2021) was an American Republican politician who served in both chambers of the United States Congress from 1963 to 1977 and later in the United States Cabinet from 1981 to 1987.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Bill Brock
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton
Bitburg
Bitburg (Bitbourg; Béibreg) is a city in Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate approximately 25 km (16 mi.) northwest of Trier and 50 km (31 mi.) northeast of Luxembourg city.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Bitburg
Black Monday (1987)
Black Monday (also known as Black Tuesday in some parts of the world due to time zone differences) was the global, severe and largely unexpected stock market crash on Monday, October 19, 1987.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Black Monday (1987)
Blowback (intelligence)
Blowback is the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Blowback (intelligence)
Bob Dole
Robert Joseph Dole (July 22, 1923 – December 5, 2021) was an American politician and attorney from Kansas who served in both chambers of the United States Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1960s and the United States Senate from 1969 to his resignation in 1996 to campaign for President of the United States.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Bob Dole
Boland Amendment
The Boland Amendment is a term describing two U.S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984, both aimed at limiting U.S. government assistance to the Contras in Nicaragua.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Boland Amendment
Bowers v. Hardwick
Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did not differentiate between homosexual and heterosexual sodomy.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Bowers v. Hardwick
Brezhnev Doctrine
The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed that any threat to "socialist rule" in any state of the Soviet Bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to all of them, and therefore, it justified the intervention of fellow socialist states.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Brezhnev Doctrine
Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney (March 20, 1939 – February 29, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Brian Mulroney
Budget sequestration
Budget sequestration is a provision of United States law that causes an across-the-board reduction in certain kinds of spending included in the federal budget.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Budget sequestration
C. Everett Koop
Charles Everett Koop (October 14, 1916 – February 25, 2013) was an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator who served as the 13th surgeon general of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and C. Everett Koop
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and California
Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement
The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA), official name as the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States of America (Accord de libre-échange entre le Canada et les États-Unis d'Amérique), was a bilateral trade agreement reached by negotiators for Canada and the United States on October 4, 1987, and signed by the leaders of both countries on January 2, 1988.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement
Capital gains tax in the United States
In the United States, individuals and corporations pay a tax on the net total of all their capital gains.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Capital gains tax in the United States
Caribbean Basin Initiative
The Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), a trade initiative initiated by the 1983 Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), is a United States program.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Caribbean Basin Initiative
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Caribbean Sea
Caspar Weinberger
Caspar Willard Weinberger (August 18, 1917 – March 28, 2006) was an American politician and businessman.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Caspar Weinberger
Charter of the United Nations
The Charter of the United Nations (UN) is the foundational treaty of the United Nations.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Charter of the United Nations
Chief Justice of the United States
The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Chief Justice of the United States
Christian right
The Christian right, otherwise referred to as the religious right, are Christian political factions characterized by their strong support of socially conservative and traditionalist policies.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Christian right
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987
The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, or Grove City Bill, is a United States legislative act that specifies that entities receiving federal funds must comply with civil rights legislation in all of their operations, not just in the program or activity that received the funding.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987
Clayton Yeutter
Clayton Keith Yeutter, ONZM (December 10, 1930 – March 4, 2017) was an American politician who served as United States secretary of agriculture under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1991 before serving as counselor to the president in 1992.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Clayton Yeutter
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell (April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Colin Powell
Collectivization in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union introduced forced collectivization (Коллективизация) of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the ascension of Joseph Stalin.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Collectivization in the Soviet Union
Colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine).
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Colorectal cancer
Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act
The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 was a law enacted by the United States Congress.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act
Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 was the first comprehensive revision of the U.S. criminal code since the early 1900s.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) was a United States federal law enacted by the Congress, and signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973 to train workers and provide them with jobs in the public service.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
Conservatism in the United States
Conservatism in the United States is based on a belief in individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Conservatism in the United States
Constructive engagement
Constructive engagement was the name given to the conciliatory foreign policy of the Reagan administration towards the apartheid regime in South Africa. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Constructive engagement are 1980s in American politics.
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Contras
The Contras (from lit) were the various U.S.-backed-and-funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which had come to power in 1979 following the Nicaraguan Revolution.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Contras
Corporate tax in the United States
Corporate tax is imposed in the United States at the federal, most state, and some local levels on the income of entities treated for tax purposes as corporations.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Corporate tax in the United States
Counselor to the President
Counselor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States and senior members of the White House Office.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Counselor to the President
Counterintelligence
Counterintelligence (counter-intelligence) or counterespionage (counter-espionage) is any activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Counterintelligence
Crack cocaine
Crack cocaine, commonly known simply as crack, and also known as rock, is a free base form of the stimulant cocaine that can be smoked.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Crack cocaine
Crack epidemic in the United States
The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and crack epidemic in the United States are 1980s in the United States.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Crack epidemic in the United States
Crédit Mobilier scandal
The Crédit Mobilier scandal was a two-part fraud conducted from 1864 to 1867 by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the first transcontinental railroad from the Missouri River to Utah Territory.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Crédit Mobilier scandal
Cruise missile
A cruise missile is an unmanned self-propelled guided vehicle that sustains flight through aerodynamic lift for most of its flight path and whose primary mission is to place an ordnance or special payload on a target.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Cruise missile
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Cuba
Culture war
In political science, a culture war is a type of cultural conflict between different social groups who struggle to politically impose their own ideology (moral beliefs, humanistic virtues, religious practices) upon mainstream society.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Culture war
Daniel Ortega
José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (born 11 November 1945) is a Nicaraguan politician and the 58th president of Nicaragua since 2007.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Daniel Ortega
David Gergen
David Richmond Gergen (born May 9, 1942) is an American political commentator and former presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and David Gergen
David Stockman
David Alan Stockman (born November 10, 1946) is an American politician and former businessman who was a Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan (1977–1981) and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1981–1985) under President Ronald Reagan.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and David Stockman
Deficit Reduction Act of 1984
The Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, also known as the DEFRA, was a federal law enacted in the United States in 1984.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Deficit Reduction Act of 1984
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Democratic Party (United States)
Desegregation busing
Desegregation busing (also known simply as busing or integrated busing or by its critics as forced busing) was a failed attempt to diversify the racial make-up of schools in the United States by sending students to school districts other than their own.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Desegregation busing
Dick Thornburgh
Richard Lewis Thornburgh (July 16, 1932 – December 31, 2020) was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 76th United States attorney general from 1988 to 1991 under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Dick Thornburgh
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) is a statutory office that functions as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which in turn is a part of the United States Intelligence Community.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Disinvestment from South Africa
Disinvestment (or divestment) from South Africa was first advocated in the 1960s in protest against South Africa's system of apartheid, but was not implemented on a significant scale until the mid-1980s.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Disinvestment from South Africa
Donald P. Hodel
Donald Paul Hodel (born May 23, 1935) is an American former politician who served as United States Secretary of Energy and Secretary of the Interior.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Donald P. Hodel
Donald Regan
Donald Thomas Regan (December 21, 1918 – June 10, 2003) was the 66th United States secretary of the treasury from 1981 to 1985 and the White House chief of staff from 1985 to 1987 under Ronald Reagan.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Donald Regan
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump
Douglas H. Ginsburg
Douglas Howard Ginsburg (born May 25, 1946) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior U.S. circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Douglas H. Ginsburg
Drew Lewis
Andrew Lindsay Lewis Jr. (November 3, 1931 – February 10, 2016), generally known as Drew Lewis, was an American businessman and politician from the state of Pennsylvania.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Drew Lewis
Dupuytren's contracture
Dupuytren's contracture (also called Dupuytren's disease, Morbus Dupuytren, Viking disease, palmar fibromatosis and Celtic hand) is a condition in which one or more fingers become permanently bent in a flexed position.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Dupuytren's contracture
Early 1980s recession
The early 1980s recession was a severe economic recession that affected much of the world between approximately the start of 1980 and 1982.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Early 1980s recession
Earned income tax credit
The United States federal earned income tax credit or earned income credit (EITC or EIC) is a refundable tax credit for low- to moderate-income working individuals and couples, particularly those with children.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Earned income tax credit
Economic inequality
Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners), and c) consumption inequality (how the total sum of money spent by people is distributed among the spenders).
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Economic inequality
Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (ERTA), or Kemp–Roth Tax Cut, was an Act that introduced a major tax cut, which was designed to encourage economic growth.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
Economy of the Soviet Union
The economy of the Soviet Union was based on state ownership of the means of production, collective farming, and industrial manufacturing.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Economy of the Soviet Union
Edward Douglass White
Edward Douglass White Jr. (November 3, 1845 – May 19, 1921) was an American politician and jurist.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Edward Douglass White
Edwin Meese
Edwin Meese III (born December 2, 1931) is an American attorney, law professor, author and member of the Republican Party who served in Ronald Reagan's gubernatorial administration (1967–1974), the Reagan presidential transition team (1980–81), and the Reagan administration (1981–1985).
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Edwin Meese
Efraín Ríos Montt
José Efraín Ríos Montt (16 June 1926 – 1 April 2018) was a Guatemalan military officer, politician, and dictator who served as de facto President of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Efraín Ríos Montt
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and El Salvador
Elizabeth Dole
Mary Elizabeth Alexander Dole (née Hanford; born July 29, 1936)Mary Ella Cathey Hanford, "Asbury and Hanford Families: Newly Discovered Genealogical Information" The Historical Trail 33 (1996), pp.
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Employment and Training Administration
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is part of the U.S. Department of Labor.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Employment and Training Administration
Engel v. Vitale
Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools, due to violation of the First Amendment.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Engel v. Vitale
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency that was established via the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to administer and enforce civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Estate tax in the United States
In the United States, the estate tax is a federal tax on the transfer of the estate of a person who dies.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Estate tax in the United States
Evil Empire speech
The "Evil Empire" speech was a speech delivered by US President Ronald Reagan to the National Association of Evangelicals on March 8, 1983, at the height of the Cold War and the Soviet–Afghan War.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Evil Empire speech
Executive Order 12333
Executive Order 12333, signed on December 4, 1981 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, was an executive order intended to extend powers and responsibilities of U.S. intelligence agencies and direct the leaders of U.S. federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA requests for information. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and executive Order 12333 are 1981 establishments in the United States.
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F. W. de Klerk
Frederik Willem de Klerk (18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and F. W. de Klerk
Fairness doctrine
The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Fairness doctrine
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall (Mauerfall) on November 9, 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Fall of the Berlin Wall
Fast track (trade)
The fast track authority for brokering trade agreements is the authority of the President of the United States to negotiate international agreements in an expedited manner and with limited congressional oversight.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Fast track (trade)
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Federal Communications Commission
Federal holidays in the United States
Federal holidays in the United States are 11 calendar dates designated by the U.S. federal government as holidays.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Federal holidays in the United States
Federal impeachment in the United States
In the United States, federal impeachment is the process by which the House of Representatives charges the president, vice president, or another civil federal officer for alleged misconduct.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Federal impeachment in the United States
Federal judiciary of the United States
The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Federal judiciary of the United States
Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Federal Reserve
Federalist Society
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (FedSoc) is an American conservative and libertarian legal organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Federalist Society
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Fidel Castro
Firearm Owners Protection Act
The Firearm Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986 is a United States federal law that revised many provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Firearm Owners Protection Act
First 100 days of the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency
The first 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency began on March 4, 1933, the day Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and First 100 days of the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency
First inauguration of Ronald Reagan
The first inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th president of the United States was held on Tuesday, January 20, 1981, at the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the first inauguration to be held on the building's west side.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and First inauguration of Ronald Reagan
First Lady of the United States
First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) is the title held by the hostess of the White House, usually the wife of the president of the United States, concurrent with the president's term in office.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and First Lady of the United States
Fiscal year
A fiscal year (also known as a financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Fiscal year
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
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Foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration
American foreign policy during the presidency of Ronald Reagan (1981–1989) focused heavily on the Cold War which shifted from détente to confrontation.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration
Frank Carlucci
Frank Charles Carlucci III (October 18, 1930 – June 3, 2018) was an American politician who served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Frank Carlucci
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
See Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Free trade agreements of the United States
The United States is party to many free trade agreements (FTAs) worldwide.
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Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act
The Garn–St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 (enacted October 15, 1982) is an Act of Congress that deregulated savings and loan associations and allowed banks to provide adjustable-rate mortgage loans.
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Gary Hart
Gary Warren Hart (né Hartpence; born November 28, 1936) is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer.
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Geneva Summit (1985)
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
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George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker BushAfter the 1990s, he became more commonly known as George H. W. Bush, "Bush Senior," "Bush 41," and even "Bush the Elder" to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd U.S. president from 2001 to 2009; previously, he was usually referred to simply as George Bush.
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George J. Mitchell
George John Mitchell Jr. (born August 20, 1933) is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer.
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George Shultz
George Pratt Shultz (December 13, 1920February 6, 2021) was an American economist, businessman, diplomat and statesman.
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George Washington University Hospital
The George Washington University Hospital (GWUH) is a for-profit hospital in Washington, D.C., affiliated with the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
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George Will
George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American libertarian conservative writer and political commentator, who writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NewsNation.
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
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Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 March 26, 2011) was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney.
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Glasnost
Glasnost (гласность) is a concept relating to openness and transparency.
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Governor of California
The governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.
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Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget Act
The Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987 (both often known as Gramm–Rudman) were the first binding spending constraints on the federal budget.
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Great power
A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale.
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Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and 1965.
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Greenspan Commission
The National Commission on Social Security Reform, also known as the Greenspan Commission due to its chairmanship by Alan Greenspan, was a commission that was appointed by the United States Congress and President Ronald Reagan in 1981 to study and make recommendations regarding the short-term financing crisis that Social Security faced at that time.
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Grenada
Grenada (Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
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Greyhound Lines
Greyhound Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Gross national income
The gross national income (GNI), previously known as gross national product (GNP), is the total domestic and foreign financial output claimed by residents of a country, consisting of gross domestic product (GDP), plus factor incomes earned by foreign residents, minus income earned in the domestic economy by nonresidents.
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Guatemalan genocide
The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide, or the Silent Holocaust (Genocidio guatemalteco, Genocidio maya, or Holocausto silencioso), was the mass killing of the Maya Indigenous people during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive US-backed Guatemalan military governments that first took power following the CIA instigated 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
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Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.
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Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
In the first Gulf of Sidra incident, 19 August 1981, two Libyan Su-22 Fitters fired upon two U.S. F-14 Tomcats and were subsequently shot down off the Libyan coast.
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Gun Control Act of 1968
The Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA or GCA68) is a U.S. federal law that regulates the firearms industry and firearms ownership.
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Harlan F. Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11, 1872 – April 22, 1946) was an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946.
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Hearing aid
A hearing aid is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible to a person with hearing loss.
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Helmut Kohl
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990, Chancellor of Germany from 1990 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998.
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Hezbollah
Hezbollah (Ḥizbu 'llāh) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group, led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
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Hissène Habré
Hissène Habré (Arabic: حسين حبري Ḥusaīn Ḥabrī, Chadian Arabic:;; 13 August 1942 – 24 August 2021), also spelled Hissen Habré, was a Chadian politician and convicted war criminal who served as the 5th president of Chad from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990.
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Historical rankings of presidents of the United States
In political studies, surveys have been conducted in order to construct historical rankings of the success of the presidents of the United States.
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History of the United States (1980–1991)
The history of the United States from 1980 until 1991 includes the last year of the Jimmy Carter presidency, eight years of the Ronald Reagan administration, and the first three years of the George H. W. Bush presidency, up to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and history of the United States (1980–1991) are 1980s in the United States.
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HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
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Homelessness
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.
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Homelessness in the United States
In the United States, the number of homeless people on a given night in January 2023 was more than 650,000 according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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Howard Baker
Howard Henry Baker Jr. (November 15, 1925 June 26, 2014) was an American politician, diplomat and photographer who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985.
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Hudson Austin
Hudson Austin (26 April 1938 – 24 September 2022) was a general in the People's Revolutionary Army of Grenada.
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Hugh Heclo
Hugh Heclo (10 March 1943 – 6 August 2017) was born in Marion, Ohio.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
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Illegal immigration to the United States
Foreign nationals, known as aliens, violate US immigration laws by entering the United States unlawfully, or by lawfully entering but then remaining after the expiration of their visas, parole or temporary protected status.
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Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA or the Simpson–Mazzoli Act) was passed by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986.
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Intelligence assessment
Intelligence assessment, or simply intel, is the development of behavior forecasts or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an organisation, based on wide ranges of available overt and covert information (intelligence).
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Intercontinental ballistic missile
An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range greater than, primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads).
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Intermediate-range ballistic missile
An intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) is a ballistic missile with a range of 3,000–5,500 km (1,864–3,418 miles), between a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union (and its successor state, the Russian Federation).
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Internal bleeding
Internal bleeding (also called internal haemorrhage) is a loss of blood from a blood vessel that collects inside the body, and is not usually visible from the outside.
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International law
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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Iran hostage crisis
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States.
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Iran–Contra affair
The Iran–Contra affair (ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Caso Irán-Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal and more rarely as the Iran Initiative, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan administration. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Iran–Contra affair are cold War history of the United States.
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Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988.
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Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen
The Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen, also known as the Seven Party Mujahideen Alliance, or Peshawar Seven was an alliance formed in 1988 (see Alliance Formation below) by the seven Afghan mujahideen parties fighting against the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan forces in the Soviet–Afghan War.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
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Israel–United States Free Trade Agreement
The United States–Israel States Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is a trade pact between the State of Israel and the United States of America established in 1985 to lower trade barriers in some goods.
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Ixil people
The Ixil (pronounced) are a Maya people located in the states of Campeche and Quintana Roo in Mexico and in the municipalities of Santa Maria Nebaj, San Gaspar Chajul, and San Juan Cotzal in the northern part of the Cuchumatanes mountains of the department of Quiché, Guatemala.
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Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Jack Foust Matlock Jr. (born October 1, 1929) is an American former ambassador, career Foreign Service Officer, teacher, historian, and linguist.
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Jack Kemp
Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a professional football player.
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James B. Edwards
James Burrows Edwards (June 24, 1927 – December 26, 2014) was an American politician and administrator from South Carolina.
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James Baker
James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930) is an American attorney, diplomat and statesman.
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James Brady
James Scott Brady (August 29, 1940 – August 4, 2014) was an American public official who served as assistant to the U.S. president and the 17th White House Press Secretary, serving under President Ronald Reagan.
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James C. Miller III
James Clifford Miller III (born June 25, 1942, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American economist and former government official who served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) between 1981 and 1985 and as Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan between 1985 and 1988.
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James G. Watt
James Gaius Watt (January 31, 1938 – May 27, 2023) was an American lawyer, lobbyist, and civil servant who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior in the Ronald Reagan administration from 1981 to 1983.
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James H. Burnley IV
James Horace Burnley IV (born July 30, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration.
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Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was an American politician.
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Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister.
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Jim Wright
James Claude Wright Jr. (December 22, 1922 – May 6, 2015) was an American politician who served as the 48th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
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Joe Wright (businessman)
Joseph "Joe" Wright (born 1938) is an American businessman.
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John B. Anderson
John Bayard Anderson (February 15, 1922 – December 3, 2017) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 16th congressional district from 1961 to 1981.
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John Hinckley Jr.
John Warnock Hinckley Jr. (born May 29, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and former convict who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1981, two months after Reagan's first inauguration.
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John Poindexter
John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936) is a retired United States naval officer and Department of Defense official.
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John R. Block
John Rusling Block (born February 15, 1935) is a former U.S. secretary of agriculture, during the Reagan administration.
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John S. Herrington
John Stewart Herrington (born May 31, 1939) is an American Republican politician and businessman.
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John Tower
John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 – April 5, 1991) was an American politician and military veteran who represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1961 to 1985.
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Just Say No
"Just Say No" was an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S.-led war on drugs, aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no.
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Keynesian economics
Keynesian economics (sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomic theories and models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongly influences economic output and inflation.
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KSDK
KSDK (channel 5) is a television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on Market Street in Downtown St. Louis, and its transmitter is located in Shrewsbury, Missouri.
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Laissez-faire
Laissez-faire (or, from laissez faire) is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism (such as subsidies or regulations).
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Lauro Cavazos
Lauro Fred Cavazos Jr. (January 4, 1927 – March 15, 2022) was an American educator and politician.
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Lawrence Walsh
Lawrence Edward Walsh (January 8, 1912 – March 19, 2014) was an American lawyer, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and United States Deputy Attorney General who was appointed Independent Counsel in December 1986 to investigate the Iran–Contra affair during the Reagan Administration.
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Lebanese Civil War
The Lebanese Civil War (الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990.
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Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
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Lebanon hostage crisis
The Lebanon hostage crisis was the kidnapping in Lebanon of 104 foreign hostages between 1982 and 1992, when the Lebanese Civil War was at its height.
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Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.
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Lesley Stahl
Lesley Rene Stahl (born December 16, 1941) is an American television journalist.
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Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. (September 19, 1907 – August 25, 1998) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.
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LGM-118 Peacekeeper
The LGM-118 Peacekeeper, originally known as the MX for "Missile, Experimental", was a MIRV-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) produced and deployed by the United States from 1985 to 2005.
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List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Nations
The United States ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
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List of leaders of the Soviet Union
During its 69-year history, the Soviet Union usually had a de facto leader who would not necessarily be head of state or even head of government but would lead while holding an office such as Communist Party General Secretary.
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List of presidents of the United States
The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College.
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List of presidents of the United States by judicial appointments
Following is a list indicating the number of Article III federal judicial appointments made by each president of the United States.
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Lowell Weicker
Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. (May 16, 1931 – June 28, 2023) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the 85th Governor of Connecticut.
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Machine gun
A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges.
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Malcolm Baldrige Jr.
Howard Malcolm "Mac" Baldrige Jr. (October 4, 1922July 25, 1987) was an American businessman.
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Malta Summit
The Malta Summit was a meeting between United States President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on December 2–3, 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Margaret Heckler
Margaret Mary Heckler (née O'Shaughnessy; June 21, 1931 – August 6, 2018) was an American politician and diplomat who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 until 1983.
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
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Market economy
A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.
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Martial law in Poland
Martial law in Poland (Stan wojenny w Polsce) existed between 13 December 1981 and 22 July 1983.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Mayer
Martin Prager Mayer (January 14, 1928 – August 1, 2019) was the writer of 35 non-fiction books, including Madison Avenue, U.S.A. (1958), The Schools (1961), The Lawyers (1967), About Television (1972), The Bankers (1975), The Builders (1978), Risky Business: The Collapse of Lloyd's of London (1995), The Bankers: The Next Generation (1997), The Fed (2001), and The Judges (2005).
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Maurice Bishop
Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of New Jewel Movement – a Marxist–Leninist party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education, and black liberation – that came to power during the 13 March 1979 revolution that removed Eric Gairy from office.
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Medicaid
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources.
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Medicare (United States)
Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).
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Mexico–United States border
The Mexico–United States border (frontera Estados Unidos–México) is an international border separating Mexico and the United States, extending from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Gulf of Mexico in the east.
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MGM-31 Pershing
The MGM-31A Pershing was the missile used in the Pershing 1 and Pershing 1a field artillery missile systems.
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Michael Deaver
Michael Keith Deaver (April 11, 1938 – August 18, 2007) was a member of President Ronald Reagan's White House staff who served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff under James Baker III and Donald Regan from January 1981 to May 1985.
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Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
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Modern liberalism in the United States
Modern liberalism in the United States is based on the combined ideas of civil liberty and equality with support for social justice.
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Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.
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Moscow State University
Moscow State University (MSU; Moskovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia.
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Moscow Summit (1988)
The Moscow Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by rebel forces in 2011.
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Multinational Force in Lebanon
The Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF) was an international peacekeeping force created in August 1982 following a 1981 U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel to end their involvement in the conflict between Lebanon's pro-government and pro-Syrian factions.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
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Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress who was the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, as the second wife of President Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States.
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National debt of the United States
The national debt of the United States is the total national debt owed by the federal government of the United States to Treasury security holders.
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National Labor Relations Board
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States that enforces U.S. labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices.
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National security
National security, or national defence (national defense in American English), is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government.
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National Security Advisor (United States)
The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (NSA),The National Security Advisor and Staff: p. 1.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
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Naval mine
A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines.
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Nena (band)
Nena was a West German Neue Deutsche Welle band formed in West Berlin in 1981.
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Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism, also neo-liberalism, is both a political philosophy and a term used to signify the late-20th-century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism.
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New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.
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New Federalism
New Federalism is a political philosophy of devolution, or the transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government back to the states.
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New Left
The New Left was a broad political movement that emerged from the counterculture of the 1960s and continued through the 1970s.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
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Nicholas F. Brady
Nicholas Frederick Brady (born April 11, 1930) is an American politician from the state of New Jersey, who served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush from 1988 to 1993, and is also known for articulating the Brady Plan in March 1989.
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Normandy landings
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.
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North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA; Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
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Northrop B-2 Spirit
The Northrop B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses.
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Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry.
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Office of Economic Opportunity
The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) was the agency responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs created as part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society legislative agenda.
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Office of Management and Budget
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).
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Office of National Drug Control Policy
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is a component of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
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Oliver North
Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
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Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA-90) is a United States statute enacted pursuant to the budget reconciliation process to reduce the United States federal budget deficit.
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Otis Bowen
Otis Ray Bowen (February 26, 1918 – May 4, 2013) was an American politician and physician who served as the 44th Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Cabinet of President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989.
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Oval Office
The Oval Office is the formal working space of the president of the United States.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Ozone layer
The ozone layer or ozone shield is a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation.
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Palestine Liberation Organization
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية) is a Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people; i.e. the globally dispersed population, not just those in the Palestinian territories who are represented by the Palestinian Authority.
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Party divisions of United States Congresses
Party divisions of United States Congresses have played a central role on the organization and operations of both chambers of the United States Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives—since its establishment as the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States in 1789.
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Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives
Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives, also known as floor leaders, are congresspeople who coordinate legislative initiatives and serve as the chief spokespersons for their parties on the House floor.
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Party leaders of the United States Senate
The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and people of the party leadership of the United States Senate.
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Pat Buchanan
Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American paleoconservative author, political commentator, and politician.
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Paul Kennedy
Paul Michael Kennedy (born 17 June 1945) is a British historian specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy.
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Paul Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987.
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Perestroika
Perestroika (a) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.
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Phil Gramm
William Philip Gramm (born July 8, 1942) is an American economist and politician who represented Texas in both chambers of Congress.
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Philip C. Habib
Philip Charles Habib (February 25, 1920 – May 25, 1992) was an American career diplomat active from 1949 to 1987.
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Planned economy
A planned economy is a type of economic system where the distribution of goods and services or the investment, production and the allocation of capital goods takes place according to economic plans that are either economy-wide or limited to a category of goods and services.
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Political machine
In the politics of representative democracies, a political machine is a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives (such as money or political jobs) and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity.
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Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1958 to 1981.
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Poverty in the United States
In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications.
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Powell Doctrine
The "Powell Doctrine" is a journalist-created term, named after General Colin Powell, for a doctrine that Powell created in the run-up to the 1990–1991 Gulf War.
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Premiership of Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher's term as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 4 May 1979 when she accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, and ended on 28 November 1990 upon her resignation.
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Premise
A premise or premiss is a proposition—a true or false declarative statement—used in an argument to prove the truth of another proposition called the conclusion.
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Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge's tenure as the 30th president of the United States began on August 2, 1923, when Coolidge became president upon Warren G. Harding's death, and ended on March 4, 1929. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Presidency of Calvin Coolidge are presidencies of the United States.
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Presidency of George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush's tenure as the 41st president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1989, and ended on January 20, 1993. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Presidency of George H. W. Bush are 1980s in American politics, 1980s in the United States, cold War history of the United States and presidencies of the United States.
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Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter's tenure as the 39th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1977, and ended on January 20, 1981. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Presidency of Jimmy Carter are 1980s in American politics, 1980s in the United States, cold War history of the United States and presidencies of the United States.
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President of Guatemala
The president of Guatemala (Presidente de Guatemala), officially titled President of the Republic of Guatemala (Presidente de la República de Guatemala), is the head of state and head of government of Guatemala, elected to a single four-year term.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Presidential directive
A presidential directive, or executive action, is a written or oral instruction or declaration issued by the president of the United States, which may draw upon the powers vested in the president by the U.S. Constitution, statutory law, or, in certain cases, congressional and judicial acquiescence.
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Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968)
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was a United States trade union that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike broken by the Reagan administration; in striking, the union violated 5 U.S.C. (Supp. III 1956) 118p (now), which prohibits strikes by federal government employees.
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Prostate
The prostate is both an accessory gland of the male reproductive system and a muscle-driven mechanical switch between urination and ejaculation.
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Proxy war
In political science, a proxy war is as an armed conflict fought between two belligerents, wherein one belligerent is a non-state actor supported by an external third-party power.
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Raymond J. Donovan
Raymond James Donovan (August 31, 1930 – June 2, 2021) was an American business executive and politician.
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Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a United States strategy implemented by the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in the late Cold War. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Reagan Doctrine are cold War history of the United States.
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Reagan era
The Reagan era or the Age of Reagan is a periodization of recent American history used by historians and political observers to emphasize that the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronald Reagan in domestic and foreign policy had a lasting impact. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Reagan era are 1980s in the United States and Ronald Reagan.
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Reaganomics
Reaganomics (a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey), or Reaganism, were the neoliberal economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Reykjavík Summit
The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, held in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 11–12 October 1986.
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Richard Darman
Richard Gordon Darman (May 10, 1943January 25, 2008) was an American businessman and government official who served in senior positions during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
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Richard Lyng
Richard Edmund Lyng (June 29, 1918 – February 1, 2003) was a U.S. administrator.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
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Richard Pipes
Richard Edgar Pipes (ריכארד פּיִפּעץ Rikhard Pipets; Ryszard Pipes; July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was an American historian who specialized in Russian and Soviet history.
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Richard Schweiker
Richard Schultz Schweiker (June 1, 1926 – July 31, 2015) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 14th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1983. He previously served as a U.S. Representative (1961–1969) and a U.S.
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Robert Bork
Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977.
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Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination
On July 1, 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed Lewis F. Powell Jr., who had earlier announced his retirement.
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Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010.
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Robert H. Michel
Robert Henry Michel (March 2, 1923 – February 17, 2017) was an American Republican Party politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 38 years.
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Robert McFarlane (American government official)
Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane (July 12, 1937 – May 12, 2022) was an American Marine Corps officer who served as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1985.
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Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor.
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Rockwell B-1 Lancer
The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force.
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Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973),.
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Rollback
In political science, rollback is the strategy of forcing a change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime.
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Romano Mazzoli
Romano Louis "Ron" Mazzoli (November 2, 1932 – November 1, 2022) was an American politician and lawyer from Kentucky.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is the presidential library and burial site of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States (1981–1989), and his wife Nancy Reagan.
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RSD-10 Pioneer
The RSD-10 Pioneer (ракета средней дальности (РСД) «Пионер» tr.: raketa sredney dalnosti (RSD) "Pioner"; Medium-Range Missile "Pioneer") was an intermediate-range ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, deployed by the Soviet Union from 1976 to 1988.
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Samuel Pierce
Samuel Riley Pierce Jr. (September 8, 1922 – October 31, 2000) was an American attorney and politician who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from January 23, 1981 until January 20, 1989, during the administration of Ronald Reagan.
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Sandinista National Liberation Front
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a Christian socialist political party in Nicaragua.
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Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor (March 26, 1930 – December 1, 2023) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006.
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Savings and loan association
A savings and loan association (S&L), or thrift institution, is a financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposits and making mortgage and other loans.
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Savings and loan crisis
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&L crisis) was the failure of 32% (1,043 of the 3,234) of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) in the United States from 1986 to 1995. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and savings and loan crisis are 1980s in the United States.
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School meal programs in the United States
In the United States, school meals are provided either at no cost or at a government-subsidized price, to students from low-income families.
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School prayer
School prayer, in the context of religious liberty, is state-sanctioned or mandatory prayer by students in public schools.
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School prayer in the United States
School prayer in the United States if organized by the school is largely banned from public elementary, middle and high schools by a series of Supreme Court decisions since 1962.
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Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
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Single market
A single market, sometimes called common market or internal market, is a type of trade bloc in which most trade barriers have been removed (for goods) with some common policies on product regulation, and freedom of movement of the factors of production (capital and labour) and of enterprise and services.
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Social Security (United States)
In the United States, Social Security is the commonly used term for the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program and is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA).
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Solidarity (Polish trade union)
Solidarity („Solidarność”), full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity" (Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy „Solidarność”, abbreviated NSZZ „Solidarność”), is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland.
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Southern Lebanon
Southern Lebanon is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.
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Special Activities Center
The Special Activities Center (SAC) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert and paramilitary operations.
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Stagflation
In economics, stagflation (or recession-inflation) is a situation in which the inflation rate is high or increasing, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high.
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Standard deduction
Under United States tax law, the standard deduction is a dollar amount that non-itemizers may subtract from their income before income tax (but not other kinds of tax, such as payroll tax) is applied.
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Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.
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START I
START I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms.
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States' rights
In American political discourse, states' rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment.
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City.
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Steve Biko
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.
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Stock market crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth.
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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks are cold War history of the United States.
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Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles.
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Strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
In the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal government program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people to help them maintain adequate nutrition and health.
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Supplemental Security Income
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a means-tested program that provides cash payments to disabled children, disabled adults, and individuals aged 65 or older who are citizens or nationals of the United States.
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Supply-side economics
Supply-side economics is a macroeconomic theory postulating that economic growth can be most effectively fostered by lowering taxes, decreasing regulation, and allowing free trade.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Surface mining
Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit (the overburden) are removed, in contrast to underground mining, in which the overlying rock is left in place, and the mineral is removed through shafts or tunnels.
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Surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing, or directing.
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
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Taliban
The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.
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Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982
The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, also known as TEFRA, is a United States federal law that rescinded some of the effects of the Kemp-Roth Act passed the year before.
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Tax Reform Act of 1986
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA) was passed by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 22, 1986.
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Teapot Dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923.
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Tear down this wall!
The Berlin Wall Speech was delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987.
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Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts.
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Terrel Bell
Terrel Howard Bell (November 11, 1921June 22, 1996) was the secretary of education in the cabinet of President Ronald Reagan.
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The Day After
The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
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The Journal of American History
The Journal of American History is the official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians.
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The Nation
The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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There you go again
"There you go again" was a phrase spoken during the second presidential debate of 1980 by Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan to his Democratic opponent, incumbent President Jimmy Carter. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and There you go again are Ronald Reagan.
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Third rail (politics)
The third rail of a nation's politics is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is "charged" and "untouchable" to the extent that any politician or public official who dares to broach the subject will invariably suffer politically.
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Thomas Delahanty
Thomas K. Delahanty (born c. 1935) is an American retired police officer who served in the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.
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Tim McCarthy
Timothy J. McCarthy (born June 20, 1949) is an American former police officer and special agent of the U.S. Secret Service.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tip O'Neill
Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (December 9, 1912 – January 5, 1994) was an American Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts who served as the 47th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, the third-longest tenure in history and the longest uninterrupted tenure.
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Tower Commission
The Tower Commission was a United States presidential commission established on December 1, 1986, by President Ronald Reagan in response to the Iran–Contra affair (in which senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo).
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Trade and Tariff Act of 1984
The Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-573) clarified the conditions under which unfair trade cases under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-618) can be pursued.
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Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution addresses issues related to presidential succession and disability.
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Unemployment benefits
Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people.
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United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.
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United States Agency for International Development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
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United States and state-sponsored terrorism
The United States has at various times in recent history provided support to terrorist and paramilitary organizations around the world.
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United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.
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United States courts of appeals
The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary.
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United States Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel
The Office of Special Counsel was an office of the United States Department of Justice established by provisions in the Ethics in Government Act that expired in 1999.
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United States district court
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.
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United States Intelligence Community
The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a group of separate U.S. federal government intelligence agencies and subordinate organizations that work both separately and collectively to conduct intelligence activities which support the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and United States Intelligence Community are 1981 establishments in the United States.
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United States invasion of Grenada
The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada, north of Venezuela at dawn on 25 October 1983.
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United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.
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United States midterm election
Midterm elections in the United States are the general elections that are held near the midpoint of a president's four-year term of office, on Election Day on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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Vernon A. Walters
Vernon Anthony Walters (January 3, 1917 – February 10, 2002) was a United States Army officer and a diplomat.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Waffen-SS
The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation.
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Walter Mondale
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (January 5, 1928 – April 19, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter.
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War on drugs
The war on drugs is the policy of a global campaign, led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States.
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WarGames
WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy.
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Warren E. Burger
Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907 – June 25, 1995) was an American attorney and jurist who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986.
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Washington Hilton
The Washington Hilton is a Hilton hotel in Washington, D.C. It is located at 1919 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., roughly at the boundaries of the Kalorama, Dupont Circle, and Adams Morgan neighborhoods.
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Washington Summit (1987)
The Washington Summit of 1987 was a Cold War-era meeting between United States president Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev that took place on December 8–10. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and Washington Summit (1987) are cold War history of the United States.
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Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.
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Wealth inequality in the United States
The inequality of wealth (i.e. inequality in the distribution of assets) has substantially increased in the United States in recent decades.
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Welfare state
A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.
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West Berlin
West Berlin (Berlin (West) or West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War.
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West Berlin discotheque bombing
On 5 April 1986, three people were killed and 229 injured when La Belle discothèque was bombed in the Friedenau locality (then part of Schöneberg, and since 2001 part of the merged district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg) of West Berlin.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
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White House Chief of Staff
The White House chief of staff is the head of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, a cabinet position in the federal government of the United States.
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White House Communications Director
The White House communications director or White House director of communications, also known officially as Assistant to the President for Communications, is part of the senior staff of the president of the United States.
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff
The White House deputy chief of staff is officially the top aide to the White House chief of staff, who is the senior aide to the president of the United States.
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Whitehouse.gov
whitehouse.gov (also simply known as wh.gov) is the official website of the White House and is managed by the Office of Digital Strategy.
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William Bennett
William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative politician and political commentator who served as secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan.
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William French Smith
William French Smith II (August 26, 1917 – October 29, 1990) was an American lawyer and the 74th United States Attorney General.
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William H. Webster
William Hedgcock Webster (born March 6, 1924) is an American retired attorney and jurist who most recently served as chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2005 until 2020.
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William J. Casey
William Joseph Casey (March 13, 1913 – May 6, 1987) was an American lawyer who was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987.
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William Leuchtenburg
William Edward Leuchtenburg (born September 28, 1922) is an American historian.
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William Novak
William Novak (born 1948) is a Canadian–American author who has co-written or ghostwritten numerous celebrity memoirs for people including Lee Iacocca, Nancy Reagan, and Magic Johnson.
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William P. Clark Jr.
William Patrick Clark Jr. (October 23, 1931August 10, 2013) was an American rancher, judge, and public servant who served under President Ronald Reagan as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1981 to 1982, United States National Security Advisor from 1982 to 1983, and the Secretary of the Interior from 1983 to 1985.
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William Rehnquist
William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American attorney and jurist who served as the 16th chief justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005, having previously been an associate justice from 1972 to 1986.
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William Roth
William Victor Roth Jr. (July 22, 1921 – December 13, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware.
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William Verity Jr.
Calvin William Verity Jr. (January 26, 1917 – January 3, 2007) was an American government official and steel industrialist who served as the 27th United States secretary of commerce between 1987 and 1989, under President Ronald Reagan.
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Willie Horton
William R. Horton (born August 12, 1951), commonly referred to as "Willie Horton", is an American convicted murderer who was the subject of a major issue in the 1988 presidential election.
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100th United States Congress
The 100th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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101st United States Congress
The 101st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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1930 United States elections
The 1930 United States elections were held on November 4, 1930, in the middle of Republican President Herbert Hoover's term.
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1948 United States presidential election
The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election.
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1976 Republican Party presidential primaries
From January 19 to June 8, 1976, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1976 United States presidential election. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and 1976 Republican Party presidential primaries are Ronald Reagan.
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1976 United States presidential election
The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976.
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1980 Republican National Convention
The 1980 Republican National Convention convened at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, from July 14 to July 17, 1980. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and 1980 Republican National Convention are Ronald Reagan.
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1980 Republican Party presidential primaries
From January 21 to June 3, 1980, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1980 United States presidential election. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and 1980 Republican Party presidential primaries are Ronald Reagan.
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1980 United States elections
The 1980 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 4.
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1980 United States presidential election
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 1980. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and 1980 United States presidential election are Ronald Reagan.
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1982 Lebanon War
The 1982 Lebanon War began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon.
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1982 United States elections
The 1982 United States elections were held on November 2, 1982.
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1983 Arizona copper mine strike
The 1983 Arizona copper mine strike began as a labour dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a group of union copper miners and mill workers, led by the United Steelworkers.
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1983 Beirut barracks bombings
On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French Servicemen of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War.
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1984 Democratic Party presidential primaries
From February 20 to June 12, 1984, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1984 United States presidential election.
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1984 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for vice president of the United States in the 1984 election.
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1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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1984 United States elections
The 1984 United States elections were held on November 6, and elected the members of the 99th United States Congress.
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1984 United States presidential election
The 1984 United States presidential election was the 50th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1984. Presidency of Ronald Reagan and 1984 United States presidential election are Ronald Reagan.
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1985–1986 Hormel strike
The 1985–1986 Hormel strike was a labor strike that involved approximately 1,500 workers of the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota in the United States.
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1986 United States elections
The 1986 United States elections were held on November 4 and elected the members of the 100th United States Congress.
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1988 Democratic National Convention
The 1988 Democratic National Convention was held at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 18 to 21, 1988, to select candidates for the 1988 presidential election.
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1988 Republican National Convention
The 1988 Republican National Convention was held in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, from August 15 to August 18, 1988.
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1988 Republican Party presidential primaries
From January 14 to June 14, 1988, Republican voters chose their nominee for president in the 1988 United States presidential election.
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1988 United States elections
The 1988 United States elections were held on November 8 and elected the President of the United States and members of the 101st United States Congress.
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1988 United States presidential election
The 1988 United States presidential election was the 51st quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988.
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600-ship Navy
The 600-ship Navy was a strategic plan of the United States Navy during the 1980s to rebuild its fleet after cutbacks that followed the end of the Vietnam War.
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97th United States Congress
The 97th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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98th United States Congress
The 98th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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99 Luftballons
"99 Luftballons" (Neunundneunzig Luftballons, "99 balloons") is a song by the West German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled "99 Red Balloons", with lyrics by Kevin McAlea, was also released by Nena on the album 99 Luftballons in 1984 after widespread success of the original in Europe and Japan.
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99th United States Congress
The 99th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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See also
1980s in American politics
- Constructive engagement
- Post-presidency of Gerald Ford
- Post-presidency of Jimmy Carter
- Presidency of George H. W. Bush
- Presidency of Jimmy Carter
- Presidency of Ronald Reagan
- Reagan coalition
- Sixth Party System
- US House and Senate career of John McCain (until 2000)
1980s in the United States
- 1980 in the United States
- 1981 in the United States
- 1982 in the United States
- 1983 in the United States
- 1984 in the United States
- 1985 in the United States
- 1986 in the United States
- 1987 in the United States
- 1988 in the United States
- 1989 in the United States
- Atari Democrat
- Bronze Age of Comic Books
- Burger wars
- CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking
- Cannabis policy of the Ronald Reagan administration
- Crack epidemic in the United States
- Day-care sex-abuse hysteria
- Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II
- FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1980s
- Gang of Four (pro-Contra)
- Grace Commission
- History of the United States (1980–1991)
- List of covers of Time magazine (1980s)
- List of the most popular names in the 1980s in the United States
- Missing children panic
- Modem tax
- Modern Age of Comic Books
- Nuclear Freeze campaign
- Operation Greylord
- Presidency of George H. W. Bush
- Presidency of Jimmy Carter
- Presidency of Ronald Reagan
- Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1980s
- Reagan Era
- Reagan era
- Ronald Reagan and AIDS
- Sagebrush Rebellion
- Savings and loan crisis
- Timeline of the history of the United States (1970–1989)
- USA Today All-USA High School Football Team (1982–1989)
1989 disestablishments in the United States
- 'Til Tuesday
- 1st Combat Evaluation Group
- American Collegiate Hockey Association (1986–1989)
- Applicon
- Central States Intercollegiate Conference
- Council of the Southern Mountains
- Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video
- Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental
- Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video
- Horizon (U.S. magazine)
- Lincoln Savings and Loan Association
- Mach 1 Racing
- Major League Volleyball
- Mayoralty of Bernie Sanders
- Merkur
- Ode Records
- Presidency of Ronald Reagan
- Rubber Rodeo
- York Steak House
Presidencies of the United States
- Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
- Presidency of Andrew Jackson
- Presidency of Andrew Johnson
- Presidency of Barack Obama
- Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
- Presidency of Bill Clinton
- Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
- Presidency of Chester A. Arthur
- Presidency of Donald Trump
- Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, first and second terms
- Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, third and fourth terms
- Presidency of Franklin Pierce
- Presidency of George H. W. Bush
- Presidency of George W. Bush
- Presidency of George Washington
- Presidency of Gerald Ford
- Presidency of Harry S. Truman
- Presidency of Herbert Hoover
- Presidency of James A. Garfield
- Presidency of James Buchanan
- Presidency of James K. Polk
- Presidency of James Madison
- Presidency of James Monroe
- Presidency of Jimmy Carter
- Presidency of Joe Biden
- Presidency of John Adams
- Presidency of John F. Kennedy
- Presidency of John Quincy Adams
- Presidency of John Tyler
- Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
- Presidency of Martin Van Buren
- Presidency of Millard Fillmore
- Presidency of Richard Nixon
- Presidency of Ronald Reagan
- Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
- Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
- Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
- Presidency of Warren G. Harding
- Presidency of William Henry Harrison
- Presidency of William Howard Taft
- Presidency of William McKinley
- Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
- Presidency of Zachary Taylor
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