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a program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.
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a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. ... The students set their hostages free days after the crisis began and just hours after President Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address
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The grain embargo against the Soviet Union was enacted by Jimmy Carter in January 1980 in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. It remained in effect until Ronald Reagan ended it upon taking the office of president.
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He became the new president
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increase defense, decrease taxes
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President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Hinckley believed the attack would impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had become obsessed.
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nearly 12,300 members of the 15,000-member Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization went on strike, beginning at 7 a.m., EST, grounding approximately 35 percent of the nation's 14,200 daily commercial flights
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appoint the first woman to the highest court in the United States.
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100 MX land-based missiles and 100 B1 bombers under a $180.3 billion but an unspecified expansion of civil defense
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to cut the budget deficit through federal spending cuts, tax increases, and reform measures
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Washington, D.C. The 1982 State of the Union Address was given by the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 97th United States Congress.
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the first speech by an American president to a meeting of both houses of the British Parliament, President Ronald Reagan presents his hope
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proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons
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The explosion reduced the building to rubble and killed 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers.
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another act to stop the spread of communism
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officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.
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the first American-Soviet summit in more than six years
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known as the best speech from a president
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caused farmland value to drop 60% in some parts of the Midwest from
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The law imposed sanctions against South Africa and stated five preconditions for lifting the sanctions that would essentially end the system of apartheid, which the latter was under at the time.
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meeting
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establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters.
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This landmark agreement proposed to eliminate all intermediate and short-range ground-based missiles and launchers from Europe.
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lifted by Reagan
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concluded that CIA Director William Casey, who supported the Iran-Contra arrangement, should have taken over the operation and made the president aware of the risks, and notified Congress as legally required.
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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
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prohibiting abortions and abortion counseling by family planning programs that receive Federal funds
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summit meeting
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he left office
