Ronald’s father did teach him skills that helped him in his future political career. His father was “tall and handsome, he had a flair for the dramatic, a presence that turned heads, a gift with words, and a genius for telling stories.” (p.5). Though his father never succeeded in becoming a successful businessman, he showed Ronald how to work hard and to have amb

governing style may have created an opportunity for his advisors to make decisions that led to the biggest scandal of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. His contribution to the scandal was also a result of his ideology, because of his tendency to trust the people around him. Reagan’s humanitarianism was involved in the scandal because it was out of his concern for the kidnapped Americans held by radical groups in Lebanon that Reagan wanted to create open relations with Iran.

Reagan was able to work well with Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev to bring the cold war to an end because they both wanted to bring the cold war to an end. Reagan’s dream was to “become a world free of nuclear weapons,” and to achieve this dream he knew he had to work with the Soviets. Reagan understood that the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse, and he “coordinated a comprehensive strategy to force it to surrender” (p. 153). Pemberton states that the “cold war ended mainly because the Soviet Union had to change internally to save itself” (p. 154). The two leaders succeeded in easing tensions because they both had common objectives, and understood that the Soviet Union was facing an inevitable collapse.

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The Iran-contra scandal involved several separate operations. The United States secretly sold weapons to the terrorist state of Iran, which was prohibited by American law. These sales also violated Reagan’s campaign to stop all countries from selling arms to Iran. The United States government also violated American law by “secretly aiding the contra rebels in their war against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North managed both of these operations. Reagan and some of his advisors wanted to open relations with Iranian moderates, and it was “later concluded by the investigator bodies that examined the Iran-contra affair that Ronald Reagan was mainly responsible for it” (p.173). They believed that Reagan knew, or should have known, what his National Security Advisors were doing. His delegative

and the ability to carry out the largest defense buildup in history” (p. 109). He was able to start government programs to deal with social and economic problems in America. He shifted the national agenda, and brought about huge tax cuts. Though there was some criticism, Reagan was able to accomplish goa

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