Ronald Reagan
Events (186)
- January 20, 2001: President Bush Delays Release of Reagan Papers 2001-01-20
- September 13, 2001: NSA Begins Domestic Surveillance of International Telephone Communications 2001-09-13
- September 13, 2001: Hayden Tells NSA Agency Must Do More to Protect US from Terrorist Attacks 2001-09-13
- October 1, 2001: Hayden Briefs Intelligence Committee, Does Not Mention Wiretapping Program 2001-10-01
- November 1, 2001: Bush Limits Access to Former Presidential Papers 2001-11-01
- May 1-4, 2003: Many in Media Give Enthusiastic Endorsement to Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ Event 2003-05-01
- May 11, 2003: Playwright Says Bush a ‘Bad Actor’ 2003-05-11
- November 5-7, 2003: Conservative Pundits Prevail on CBS to Change Reagan Documentary before Airing 2003-11-05
- November 3, 2004: Fundamentalist Christian University President Exhorts Bush to Carry out Religious Mandate in Second Term 2004-11-03
- May 31, 2005: Felt Revealed as ‘Deep Throat’ 2005-05-31
- October 28, 2005: Addington Becomes Cheney’s Chief of Staff 2005-10-28
- May 19, 2008: Former NSA Director ‘Shocked’ by Pentagon Propaganda Operation 2008-05-19
- November 13, 2008: Former Radio News Director Reveals Strategies of Conservative Talk Show Success 2008-11-13
- April 13, 2009: Former Klan Leader Explains Aspects of Organization, Calls John Birch Society ‘a Political Version of the KKK’ 2009-04-13
- October 13, 2009: Conservative Columnist: Obama Won the ‘Affirmative Action Nobel Prize’ for Peace 2009-10-13
- July 1, 2010: Republican Senator: Tea Party Will ‘Die Out’ because It Is ‘Unsustainable’ and Lacks ‘Coherent Vision for Governing the Country’ 2010-07-01
- May 12, 2012: Investigative Journalist Traces Rise of ‘Orchestrated’ Conservative Media Construct in Wake of 1970s Investigative Reporting Successes 2012-05-12
- January 1981 and After: Reagan’s Senior Staff Divided between ‘Pragmatists’ and ‘Hard-Liners’
- January 1983-April 1983: Arms Negotiation Panel Recommends Revamped Approach
- January 1986: Gorbachev Proposes Drastic Reductions in US, Soviet Nuclear Arsenals
- January 1988: Reagan Invokes, then Waives Amendment Cutting off Aid for Pakistan Because of Its Nuclear Weapons Program
- February 1981 and After: US Allegedly Helps Turn Soviet Soldiers Fighting in Afghanistan into Drug Addicts
- February 1981 and After: Reagan Officials Revive Scheme to Purge Bureaucracy of ‘Dissidents’
- February 1985: Reagan Possibly Views Afghan Video Made by Bin Laden Brothers
- March-April 1982: Reagan Publicly Declares Nuclear War Unwinnable
- March 1982: Pentagon’s Five-Year Defense Guidance Plans for ‘Protracted Nuclear War’
- March 1985: Reagan Sharply Increases Covert Support to Afghan Rebels
- April 1981 and After: Reagan Opposes Nuclear Weapons; Aides Thwart Efforts to Begin Arms Reductions
- April 1983-December 1983: Reagan Hardliners Continue to Obstruct, Sabotage Arms Negotiation Talks
- May 1982 and After: START Talks Supplant SALT Negotiations, Make No Progress
- June 1979: President Carter Reluctantly Supports Unpopular MX Nuclear Missile Deployment
- August 1985: Congress Appropriates $27 Million in Humanitarian Aid for Contras
- August 1985: Pressler Amendment Passed, Requiring Yearly Certification that Pakistan Does Not Have Nuclear Weapons
- September 1981 through November 1983: Hardliners Block INF Arms Agreement
- September 1988: House Speaker Victimized by Cheney-Led Conspiracy to Paint Him as Guilty of ‘Security Breach’
- October 1980: ’Billygate’-Based Disinformation Campaign Erupts near Election; Orchestrated by American Neoconservative and Italian Intelligence Agencies
- October 1980: Osama’s Oldest Brother Allegedly Involved in ‘October Surprise’
- October 1983: Reagan States ‘Affirmative’ Nature of US ‘Strategy for Freedom’; Later Called Basis of ‘Reagan Doctrine’
- October 1983: Future Chief Justice Claims President Has ‘Inherent Authority’ to Deploy US Troops without Congressional Approval
- November 1976: Carter Defeats Ford for Presidency; Cheney Helped Lose Re-Election Bid for Ford
- November 1980 and After: Anti-Abortion Group Distributes Partisan Pamphlets in Days before Federal Elections, Distribution Survives FEC Challenge
- Late December 2003 - May 2004: Hussein Gives Wealth of Information in Long Interrogations with FBI Agent; No Harsh Tactics Used
- December 1983 and After: Reagan Refocuses on Disarmament, Improving Relations with Soviet Union
- 1962: AMA, Congress Members Battle Medicare Proposal
- 1962: Reagan Warns that Medicare Will Lead to Socialism, Destruction of American Democracy
- Early and Mid-1976: Reagan Candidacy Proves Many Republican Voters Oppose Negotiations with Soviet Union
- 1981 and Beyond: CPD Members in Reagan Administration Wildly Exaggerate Soviet Threat, Politicize Intelligence
- Early 1981 and After: Reagan Pushes Largest Peacetime Military Buildup in US History
- 1981: Reagan Expands MX Nuclear Missile Program, Faces Stiff Opposition
- 1985: Reagan Withdraws US from Treaty with Nicaragua