THE REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE

8 YEARS OF R. REAGAN

In what ways did Reagan & Republicans re-establish

leadership in the executive office?

THE ELECTION OF 1980 CARTER & MONDALE REAGAN & G.H.W.BUSH “ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN

YOU WERE 4 YEARS AGO?” REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN

SENATE; HOUSE STILL IN THE HANDS OF DEMOCRATS

ROLE OF MORAL MAJORITY & GROWING EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT

REAGAN: CIVIC PERSONAL-ITY, GIFTED SPEAKER, RETURN TO SIMPLER TIMES, NEVER APPEARED TO BE RIGID IDEOLOGUE, FRIENDLY & RELAXED MANNER

DOMESTIC POLICY: 1ST ADMINISTRATION

SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS OR REAGANOMICS

CUT SPENDING & TAXES “VOODOO ECONOMICS” ECO PROBLEMS PLAGUE

COUNTRY UNTIL 1983 & INFLATION STEADY @ 4%

LAISSEZ FAIRE PATCO STRIKE 1981,

INVOKES TAFT-HARTLEY, FIRES WORKERS (REINSTATED UNDER CLINTON)

WOMEN & MINORITIES THROUGHOUT 70’S

WOMEN MADE SOME GAINS BUT NOT FULL EQUALITY. ERA FAILS 1982

OPPOSED BUSING & AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR 3 WOMEN & 1 AA

APPOINTED TO FEDERAL BENCH

CUTS IN SOCIAL PROGRAMS GREATLY HURT POOR, INNER CITY, MINORITY FAMILIES

SAGEBRUSH REBELLION

FOREIGN POLICY- REVERSE DECLINE IN US

POWER OVERSEAS POST IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS.

HOSTAGES RELEASED 1/20/81 – OFFICIAL LINE ‘NO CONSPIRACY’

USSR IS THE ‘EVIL EMPIRE’ SDI: ANTI MISSLE SYSTEM,

“STAR WARS”, ENORMOUS COSTS

COLD WAR RHETORIC INCREASES: KOREAN AIRLINER

IRAN-IRAQ WAR: SUPPORT HUSSEIN & STOP SPREAD OF FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM

ISRAEL-PALESTINE ISSUES

THE ELECTION OF 1984

REAGAN & BUSH MONDALE & FERRARO JESSE JACKSON &

RAINBOW COALITION

WOMEN DON’T VOTE AS A BLOCK: RACE, MARITAL STATUS, EDUCATION & ECONIMC SUCCESS ALL PLAY A PART IN HOW THEY VOTE

59% popular vote & every state except Minnesota & DC

ECONOMIC WOES

EVIL EMPIRE SOFTENS UP SDI – SO EXPENSIVE FOR

BOTH U.S. & USSR GORBACHEV CAN’T

SUPPORT EASTERN EUROPEAN GOV-ERNMENTS ANYMORE

PERESTROIKA: RESTRUCTURE SOVIET ECONOMY

GLASNOST: POLITICAL OPENESS

“MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!”

… AND THE WALL CAME TUMBLING DOWN

MIDDLE EAST FOREIGN POLICY

82 ISRAELI INVASION OF LEBANON 85 BOMBINGS IN VIENNA & ROME AIRPORTS TWA FLIGHT HIJACKED ATHENS TO ROME ACHILLE LAURO 1986 BERLIN DISCO BOMBED 1987 PALESTINIANS ROSE UP AGAINST ISRAEL IN

GAZA & WEST BANK 1988 PAN AM FLIGHT 103

CENTRAL AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

CARTER & NICARAGUAN POLICY REVERSED & RR SUPPORTS CONTRAS

US SUPPORT MILITARY JUNTA IN EL SALVADOR

BOLAND AMENDMENT NO MORE MILITARY AID TO REBELS BUT RR CONTINUES FUNDING FROM OTHER SOURCES

GRENADA-US OUST PRO CASTRO REGIME TO THEIR DELIGHT & MOST OF L.A. TOO

IRAN CONTRA AFFAIRARMS FOR HOSTAGES

MONEY FLOWS TO CONTRAS DESPITE CONGRESS

REAGAN DOESN’T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS BUT WANTS AMERICANS HOME

SELL ARMS TO IRAN VIA ISRAEL

SECRET SALE OF US WEAPONS DIRECTLY TO IRAN- 1986

$12 MILL PROFIT WENT TO ARMS FOR CONTRAS

“I DON’T RECALL”, ROGUE ADMINISTRATION, CONTEMPT FOR THE LAW

RR TOOK RESPONSIBILITY W/O ACKNOWLEDGING INVOLVEMENT OR KNOWLEDGE OF EVENTS

SOCIAL DILEMMAS AIDS DETECTED IN 1981 WAR ON DRUGS “JUST SAY

NO” FAILED WAR ON DRUGS:

CRACK, CRIME, WALL STREET, MAIN STREET, BACK ALLIES

IMMIGRATION: HISPANICS LARGEST GROWING GROUP

1986 AMNESTY & PENALTIES FOR HIRING UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS

SUCCESSFUL BUT ILLEGAL ENTRY CONTINUES

ELECTION OF 1988 G.H.W. BUSH & D.

QUAYLE J. JACKSON 1ST AA TO

CHALLENGE MAJOR PARTY NOMINATION BUT LOST

M. DUKAKIS & L. BENTSEN

COULDN’T WIN BACK CONSTITUENCIES LOST IN THE 70’S: S. WHITES, MID-WEST BLUE COLLAR CATHOLICS, MC SUBURBANITES

53% OF POPULAR VOTE 426 TO 111 NEW PATTERN IN PRES.

POLITICS: REFIGHT BATTLES OF THE ’60’S – LIBERALS VS CONSERVATIVES