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News Articles: ronald reagan

Close-up photo of pinback button with text reading Reagan, Let's Make America Great Again, for Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential election campaign.

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  • Politics

The first time we had 'one big, beautiful bill' we called it Reaganomics

Budget reconciliation may not be catchy, but it's been a vital tool for many presidents, including Ronald Reagan, whose first federal budget was a watershed in the history of federal fiscal policy.

May 17, 2025
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By:
  • Ron Elving
Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, attach siding to the front of a Habitat for Humanity home being built on June 10, 2003, in LaGrange, Georgia.

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  • Perspective

Jimmy Carter is no saint in my house

For President Biden's legacy, we should look to late President Jimmy Carter's history in Central America.

January 10, 2025
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  • Jasmine Romero
GPB News NPR

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  • Obituaries

Carter's single White House term still stirs controversy after more than 40 years

Jimmy Carter was a former one-term governor from Georgia, almost unknown nationally, when he broke through in Iowa and New Hampshire early in 1976 and rode that momentum all the way to Washington.

December 29, 2024
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By:
  • Ron Elving
A tanker ship enters the Panama Canal on Oct. 25, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump raised the idea that the U.S. should reclaim ownership of the canal.

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  • Analysis

With Trump's Panama Canal talk, it feels like 1976 all over again

It's unclear how the issue of ownership of the Panama Canal became a talking point for President-elect Donald Trump this week, but the question has a long political history.

December 28, 2024
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By:
  • Ron Elving
GPB News NPR

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  • Elections

Can Biden come back from a bad debate the way Reagan did in 1984?

After President Biden’s surprisingly weak debate performance this week, some defenders have pointed to other incumbents who stumbled in their first debate but recovered to win reelection.

June 29, 2024
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By:
  • Ron Elving
An aerial view of Pointe du Hoc, a clifftop in Cricqueville-en-Bessin, on the French western Norman coast, taken in October 2018.

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  • History

The dramatic story of Pointe du Hoc, the backdrop to Biden's D-Day anniversary speech

Over 200 U.S. Army Rangers scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc on D-Day to destroy German long-range guns stationed at the top. Less than half remained standing after two days of fighting.

June 07, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
At the second GOP debate on Wednesday, the candidates on stage may still channel former President Ronald Reagan — even if only in name, not policy.

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  • Politics

In the second GOP debate, expect Ronald Reagan to loom large in name — but not policy

Once the conservative leader by which others were measured, former President Ronald Reagan looms large in the Republican Party. But his influence may be waning.

September 28, 2023
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By:
  • Don Gonyea
Republican presidential candidates, from left, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and former Vice President Mike Pence, at a debate hosted by FOX Business and Univision, Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.

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  • Elections

6 takeaways from the second GOP debate

The second Republican debate wrapped up with seven candidates attempting to break away from the front-runner, former President Donald Trump, who was in Michigan instead of attending.

September 28, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
Pat Robertson speaks during a forum at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., in 2015. Robertson was a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition.

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  • Obituaries

Pat Robertson, televangelist and a leader of the religious right, dies at 93

Pat Robertson founded the Christian Broadcasting Network. He also hosted The 700 Club and drew controversy for comments that were often seen as anti-gay and racially insensitive.

June 08, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
FILE - President Jimmy Carter with Jorge R. Videla, President of Argentina, at a meeting at the White House in Washington on Sept. 9, 1977.

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  • History

Political prisoners share how Jimmy Carter saved their lives

As Jimmy Carter rests in hospice care at his home in Georgia, The Associated Press reached out to former political prisoners who credit him with saving their lives. Carter is known around the world for trying to put human rights at the center of America's foreign policy.

May 01, 2023
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  • Associated Press
President Ronald Reagan shows his boot following the signing of his tax bill in August 1981 at his vacation home near Santa Barbara, Calif.

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  • Politics

The Democratic Push To Tax The Rich More Is 40 Years In The Making

Democrats will try the same budgetary process from four decades ago when first-year President Ronald Reagan used reconciliation to achieve his "revolution" in federal fiscal policy.

September 16, 2021
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By:
  • Ron Elving
Jimmy Carter on horseback in Grand Teton National Park.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Ga. Filmmakers Redefine Jimmy Carter's Presidency In New Documentary 'Carterland'

Friday on Political Rewind: A new documentary by two Georgia-born filmmakers, brothers Will and Jim Pattiz make the case that Carter was a visionary who promoted policies far ahead of their time; on racial justice, world peace, sustainable energy and much more.

May 14, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
An image of the capitol sinks into the ocean.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Former U.S. Congressmen On Fragility Of Democracy And How To Save Ours

Wednesday on Political Rewind: we ask two former U.S. senators about the state of our democratic institutions. As we come to the end of the Trump era, just how fragile is the American experiment in democracy? 

January 13, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
Reagan: An American Journey

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: The Life and Legacy of Ronald Reagan

On this edition of Political Rewind, author Bob Spitz details the legacy of the 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The parallels between Reagan and...

October 08, 2018
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By:
  • Robert Jimison

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