Ronald Reagan: List his accomplishments here...

[Nickdfresh]

I see several here admire Reagan as if he were a demi-god, no, a full god actually. So, list his accomplishments/failures here. I'll start off with a link to his official short bio:

Ronald Reagan

At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan viewed with satisfaction the achievements of his innovative program known as the Reagan Revolution, which aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon Government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of 1980 to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism."

The Rest Here

[Matt White]

He cut survivor benefits to widows & kids..................

[LoungeMachine]

Secretly negotiating with terrorists to win release of the hostages and win the election.

Iran-Contra

Cutting and running in Beruit.


Giving his DCIA a frontal Lobotomy.


Voodoo Economics.



There's 5 for now......

[Ellyllions]

-He almost got us all killed in the Cold War.

-He left Ollie North out to dry.

-My neighbor had to go to Guatemala under Ronnie's watch.

-One of my college instructors believed Ronnie had ties to the mafia because he only pardoned mafia people.

-Genesis had a puppet in the video "Land of Confusion" that looked like Ronnie.

-Even though he managed to make enemies on Capitol Hill during his stint at the White House, they all seemed genuinely sorry to hear of his passing.

But most importantly:
-He stayed out of my way whilst I was busy being a selfish teenage brat of the 80's.

[Nickdfresh]

This is going to be a very long thread...

[thome]

He was always clean shaven.

He was also a gentleman.

He belived the office of the presidency was a sacred trust to the
continuation of the ideals of freedom and free thinking men.

1.The First real acomplishment i cared about was I believe he did the right thing by releasing the Shaw of Irans assets to free the hostages.

2.The second was really bringing the reality of the oppression of eastern european people to the forefront of the world and on every persons lips to the point of the Russian govt had no other option than to open up 1/4 of the world that once was behind bars for 40 years.

There may be others these seem to be enough..

[blueturk]

Reagan wasn't known as "The Teflon President" for nothing.Scandals abounded in the Reagan years. As I'm sure Elvis will confirm, dying sometimes makes people seem better than they actually were...

Iran-Contra Affair

Main article: Iran Contra Affair
In the Iran-Contra Affair, several administration staffers were convicted of crimes ranging from lying to Congress to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. The scandal involved the administration selling arms to the radical Islamic regime in Iran and using proceeds from the sales to illegally fund the Contras, a guerrilla group in Nicaragua.

Elliott Abrams
Elliot Abramsagreed to cooperate with investigators and in return was indicted and plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges. He was sentenced to two years probation and one hundred hours of community service. He was pardoned by George H.W. Bush on December 24, 1992 along with five other former Reagan Administration officials who had been implicated in connection with Iran-Contra.

National Security Advisor Robert C. McFarlane, pled guilty to four misdemeanors and was sentenced to two years probation and 200 hours of community service and was ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.He was pardoned by Bush.

Alan D. Fiers was the Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's Central American Task Force. He pled guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information from congress and was sentenced to one year of probation and one hundred hours of community service. He was pardoned by Bush.

Richard R. Miller - Partner with Oliver North in IBC, an Office of Public Diplomacy front group, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Clair George was Chief of the CIA's Division of Covert Operations under President Reagan. George was convicted of lying to two congressional committees in 1986. He was pardoned by Bush.

Richard Secord was indicted on nine felony counts of lying to Congress and pleaded guilty to a felony charge of lying to Congress.[10][11]
Thomas G. Clineswas convicted of four counts of tax-related offenses for failing to report income from the Iran/Contra operations.

Carl R. Channel - Office of Public Diplomacy , partner in International Business- first person convicted in the Iran/Contra scandal, pleaded guilty of one count of defrauding the United States

John Poindexter, Reagan's national security advisor, was found guilty of five criminal accounts including lying to Congress, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. His conviction was later overturned on grounds that he did not receive a fair trial (the prosecution may have been influenced by his immunized testimony in front of Congress.)[16][17]
Oliver North was indicted on sixteen charges in the Iran/Contra affair and found guilty of three - aiding and abetting obstruction of Congress, shredding or altering official documents and accepting a gratuity. His convictions were later overturned on the grounds that his immunized testimony had tainted his trial.[18][19]

Department of Housing and Urban Development grant rigging
The HUD controversy involved administration staffers granting federal funding to constituents, and defrauding the US government out of money intended for low income housing. Judge Arlin Adamns obtained the following convictions:


James WattJames Watt, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior was indicted on 24 felony counts and pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor. He was sentenced to five years probation, and order to pay a $5000 fine.

Philip Winn - Assistant HUD Secretary. Pleaded guilty to one count of scheming to give illegal gratuities.

Thomas Demery - Assistant HUD Secretary - pleaded guilty to steering HUD subsidies to politically connected donors.[22]

Deborah Gore Dean - executive assistant to Samuel Pierce - indicted on thirteen counts, three counts of conspiracy, one count of accepting an illegal gratuity, four counts of perjury, and five counts of concealing articles. She was convicted on twelve accounts. She appealed and prevailed on several accounts but the convictions for conspiracy remained.

Catalina Villaponda - Former US Treasurer, HUD

Joseph A. Strauss - Accepting kickbacks

Lobbying Scandal
When an administration staff member leaves office, federal law governs how quickly one can begin a lobbying career.

Michael Deaver, Reagan’s Chief of Staff, was convicted of lying to both a congressional committee and to a federal grand jury about his lobbying activities after he left the government. He received three years probation and was fined one hundred thousand dollars after being convicted for lying to a congressional subcommittee.[25]
Lyn Nofziger—White House Press Secretary - Convicted on charges of illegal lobbying after leaving government service in Wedtech scandal. His conviction was later overturned.

EPA controversy
The Environmental Protection Agency Scandal arose when it was discovered that the administration was releasing Superfund grants for cleaning up local toxic waste sites to enhance the election prospects of local officials aligned with the Republican Party.

Rita Lavelle was convicted of lying to Congress and served three months of a six-month prison sentence.

Savings & Loan Bailout
His "elimination of loopholes" in the tax code included the elimination of the "passive loss" provisions that subsidized rental housing. Because this was removed retroactively it bankrupted many real estate developments made with this tax break as a premise. This with some other "deregulation" policies (ratified by a Democratic congress) ultimately led to the largest political and financial scandal in U.S. history: The Savings and Loan crisis.

An indication of this scandal's size: "The theft from the taxpayer by the community that fattened on the growth of the savings and loan (S&L) industry in the 1980's is the worst public scandal in American history. Teapot Dome in the Harding administration and the Credit Mobilier in the times of Ulysses S. Grant have been taken as the ultimate horror stories of capitalist democracy gone to seed. Measuring by money, [or] by the misallocation of national resources...the S&L outrage makes Teapot Dome and Credit Mobilier seem minor episodes."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration_scandals

[LoungeMachine]

We've outlawed Russia

The Bombing begins in 5 minutes


-The Gipper

[FORD]

Drove the price of Jelly Bellies sky high, by claiming them as his favorite candy.

Thanks, motherfucker!

[WARF]

Don't forget about him raising phone bills...
Here's one for the gipper!!!

[thome]

Questions :

Is not the connotation(sp) of the word -Accomplishment- in refference to, a lead into, the description of a -Possitive- view of the Regan presidency.

Ronald Reagan: List his accomplishments here...

Why do others percive that to mean Write down all the ways RR Fukked the World Completely and Totally .I want this to be seen as a negativity thing not a accomplishment at all.

Am I wrong on the definition of the word accomplishment..?

[Jerry H]

Re: Ronald Reagan: List his accomplishments here...

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
I see several here admire Reagan as if he were a demi-god, no, a full god actually. So, list his accomplishments/failures here. I'll start off with a link to his official short bio:

Ronald Reagan

At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan viewed with satisfaction the achievements of his innovative program known as the Reagan Revolution, which aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon Government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of 1980 to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism."

The Rest Here

He was a good fucking Actor back in the 30's and 40's amongst other things.

[jcook11]

Made most (liberal nazis at this forum are excused) Americans feel better about themselves.Rebuilt decimated defense spending.

"Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!"

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by jcook11
Made most (liberal nazis at this forum are excused) Americans feel better about themselves.

Ahh, did poor jkook not feel good about herself before Reagan was president? That's hilarious! Maybe it was more of a not so fresh feeling.

[WACF]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
We've outlawed Russia

The Bombing begins in 5 minutes


-The Gipper

That one was pretty funny.

I saw on some show about the cold war that the Russians believed Ronnie was crazy enough to do it...they feared him.