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d 64 on may 15 1969 during the people s park protests at the university of california berkeley reagan sent the california highway patrol and other officers to fight off the protests in an event that became known as bloody thursday 65 reagan then called out 2 200 state national guard troops to occupy the city of berkeley for two weeks to crack down on the protesters 66 reagan ran for re election in the 1970 gubernatorial election against assemblyman jesse m unruh 67 reagan won 3 439 174 52 83 of the vote while unruh won 2 938 607 45 14 of the vote 68 during his final term as governor he played a major role in california s educational system 56 he raised student loans this caused a massive protest between reagan and the college students 56 reagan would soon be criticized of his views of the educational system 56 reagan left office on january 6 1975 when jerry brown pat brown s son succeeded reagan as governor 56 1976 presidential campaign change change source main articles ronald reagan 1976 presidential campaign and republican party presidential primaries 1976 reagan and president ford on the last day of the 1976 republican national convention in 1976 reagan said he would run against president gerald ford to become the republican party s candidate for president 69 reagan soon became the conservative candidate with the support of groups such as the american conservative union which became important supporters of his political run while ford was seen as a more moderate republican 70 during his 1976 campaign reagan controversially used the pejorative phrase welfare queen to talk about linda taylor who illegally misused her welfare benefits in 1974 71 he used taylor and her criminal activities to defend why he was against social programs in the united states 72 reagan picked united states senator richard schweiker of pennsylvania as his running mate 73 reagan won a few primaries early such as north carolina texas and california but soon failed to win key primaries such as new hampshire florida and his native illinois 74 75 during the 1976 gop convention ford won the nomination with 1 187 delegates to reagan s 1 070 74 ford would go on to lose the 1976 presidential election to the democratic nominee jimmy carter 70 though he lost the nomination reagan got 307 write in votes in new hampshire 388 votes as an independent on wyoming s ballot and a single electoral vote from general election from the state of washington 76 1980 presidential campaign change change source main articles ronald reagan presidential campaign 1980 and united states presidential election 1980 reagan s acceptance speech at the final day of the 1980 republican national convention in november 1979 reagan announced his plans to run for president again in the 1980 presidential election against president jimmy carter 77 his campaign slogan make america great again was heavily used in the 1980 election and in reagan s 1984 re election campaign 78 the slogan would be used by presidents bill clinton and donald trump in their presidential campaigns 79 80 reagan also used the slogan morning in america in this campaign 81 reagan had many people running for the nomination such as former director george h w bush united states representatives john b anderson and phil crane united states senators bob dole howard baker larry pressler and lowell p weicker jr governor harold stassen former treasury secretary john connally and republican businessman ben fernandez 82 in may 1980 reagan won enough delegates to win the republican party nomination 83 at the 1980 republican national convention reagan named bush as his running mate 84 reagan s presidential campaign focused on lowering taxes to grow the economy 85 less government in people s lives 86 states rights 87 and a strong national defense 88 his relaxed and confident appearance during the reagan carter debate on tv on october 28 made him more popular he increased his lead over carter in opinion polls 89 on november 4 reagan won the election he won 44 states with 489 electoral votes carter won 6 states and the district of columbia with 49 electoral votes 90 he also won the popular vote with 50 7 to carter s 41 0 independent john b anderson won 6 6 89 90 presidency 1981 89 change change source ronald reagan and his wife nancy waving from the limousine during the inaugural parade 1981 first term 1981 85 change change source reagan was first sworn in as president on january 20 1981 91 in his inaugural address he talked about the country s economic problems saying in this present crisis government is not the solution to our problems government is the problem 92 on the same day hostages from the iran hostage crisis were released 91 during the first two years of his presidency reagan worked with a conservative majority in congress it was estimated that there were 230 votes in the 97th congress however this changed following the midterm elections in 1982 with liberals regaining control of the house of representatives in the 98th congress there were now only 190 conservatives in the house 93 assassination attempt change change source main article assassination attempt on ronald reagan reagan walking to his limousine moments before being shot by john hinckley reagan was nearly killed in an assassination attempt that happened on monday march 30 1981 94 95 69 days after becoming president he was leaving after a speaking engagement at the washington hilton hotel in washington d c 95 he was shot by john hinckley jr 95 hinckley shot six bullets 95 white house press secretary james brady was shot in the head 95 brady later recovered but was paralyzed 96 another bullet hit officer thomas delahanty in the back of the neck but he survived 97 98 the third bullet hit secret service agent timothy mccarthy in the chest mccarthy got shot so another bullet did not hit reagan 99 reagan brady delahanty and mccarthy were the only ones injured during the event and they all survived 95 94 reagan was taken to the george washington university hospital which was the nearest hospital to the hotel and white house 95 he suffered a punctured lung and a broken rib bone 95 he lost about 3 4 of his blood 95 reagan soon made a fast recovery after doctors performed surgery 95 it was later said that the bullet was one inch away from his heart 95 domestic policies change change source in 1981 reagan became the first president to propose a constitutional amendment on school prayer 100 in 1985 reagan expressed his disappointment that the supreme court ruling still bans a moment of silence for public schools and said he had an uphill battle 101 in 1987 reagan once again wanted congress to support prayer in schools and end the expulsion of god from america s classrooms 102 people who did not support this with some thinking it was going against the first amendment 103 reagan s attorney general william french smith thought it was unconstitutional 103 reagan speaking from the white house about the federal air traffic controllers going on strike august 1981 in the summer of 1981 the union of federal air traffic controllers went on strike they broke a federal law that does not allow government unions to strike 104 reagan said that if the air traffic controllers do not report for work within 48 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated 105 they did not return and on august 5 reagan fired 11 359 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored his order and used supervisors and military controllers to handle the nation s commercial air traffic until new controllers could be hired and trained 106 the reagan administration did not pay attention to the aids crisis in the united states in 1981 107 aids research did not have the proper money needed during reagan s administration there were requests for more funding by doctors at the centers for disease control cdc but they were ignored by the end of the first 12 months of the epidemic more than 1 000 people had died of aids in the united states 107 108 by the time president reagan gave his first speech on the epidemic in 1987 36 058 americans had been diagnosed with aids and 20 849 had died of it 109 by the end of 1989 the year reagan left office 115 786 people had been diagnosed with aids in the united states and more than 70 000 of them had died of it 107 during his presidency he also stopped giving out money that was given by the world health organization 110 in 1988 before speaking to the united nations reagan decided to give out the who funds 110 reagan originally did not support making martin luther king jr s birthday a national holiday because of cost concerns 111 112 but on november 2 1983 reagan signed a bill to create a federal holiday honoring king 113 the bill had passed the senate by a count of 78 to 22 114 and the house of representatives by 338 to 90 115 the holiday was observed for the first time on january 20 1986 116 it is observed on the third monday of january 116 economic policies change change source main article reaganomics reagan gives a televised address from the oval office about his economic plan reaganomics july 1981 reagan believed that the government should be small not big this means that the government should not interfere in people s lives very much or interfere with what businesses do 8 he believed in supply side economics which was also called reaganomics and voodoo economics by people who did not like it during his term 117 he lowered everybody s income taxes by 25 118 and cut government spending 119 while he was president inflation went from 13 5 to 4 1 2 reagan s economic plan caused a bad economy during 1982 but the economy recovered in 1983 120 121 however people who did not like his economic plan pointed out an increase in the national debt from 31 to 50 8 of the country s gdp 122 during his time in office unemployment fell from 7 6 to 5 5 and the economy grew by 40 2 however at the end of his presidency income inequality in the country grew as poverty and inequality in the country got worse 123 his economic policies also made it harder for black americans to earn as much money as white americans 124 a federal reserve board study in 1992 said that reagan s economic policies mainly helped rich americans as they became richer while those in poverty had little help 125 foreign policy change change source reagan gave his evil empire speech to the national association of evangelicals in orlando florida on march 8 1983 126 he spoke about the nuclear arms race and said how communism would eventually fail 126 127 reagan said in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals i urge you to beware the temptation of pride the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil 128 reagan addressing the national association of evangelicals 1983 in the evil empire speech reagan also said how he wanted nato to use nuclear armed intermediate range ballistic missiles in western europe as a response to the soviets adding new nuclear armed missiles in eastern europe 127 in 1983 reagan sent forces to lebanon to stop the threat of the lebanese civil war 129 on october 23 1983 american forces in beirut were attacked 130 the beirut barracks bombing killed 241 americans and hurt more than 60 others by a suicide truck bomber 131 130 reagan removed all the marines from lebanon 132 defense secretary caspar weinberger who had told the administration against having u s marines in lebanon said there would be no change in the u s s lebanon policy 133 reagan met with his national security team and planned to target the sheik abdullah barracks in baalbek lebanon 134 a joint american french air assault on the camp where the bombing was planned was also approved by reagan and french president françois mitterrand however u s defense secretary weinberger successfully told reagan to go against the mission 135 reagan and george shultz meets with prime minister eugenia charles of dominica in the oval office about the events in grenada november 1983 in september 1983 korean air lines flight 007 was shot down by the soviet union 136 it killed one politician and many more americans reagan was angry at the soviets 136 reagan addressed the nation 136 as a result reagan proposed that the american military s gps would be allowed for civilian use 137 in his address reagan said i m coming before you tonight about the korean airline massacre the attack by the soviet union against 269 innocent men women and children aboard an unarmed korean passenger plane this crime against humanity must never be forgotten here or throughout the world 138 on october 25 1983 reagan ordered u s forces to invade grenada code named operation urgent fury reagan said that there was a regional threat posed by a soviet cuban military build up in the caribbean in grenada 139 operation urgent fury was the first major military operation done by u s forces since the vietnam war some days of fighting started but it resulted in a u s victory 139 in mid december u s forces withdrew from grenada after a new form of government was created there 139 1984 re election campaign change change source main articles ronald reagan 1984 presidential campaign and united states presidential election 1984 reagan campaigning for his re election campaign in endicott new york reagan was once again nominated for president at the 1984 republican national convention 140 his democratic opponent was former vice president walter mondale of minnesota 141 during the first presidential debate many said reagan lost the debate and there were rumors about reagan s health citing his confusion on stage 142 many thought reagan was showing the early stages of alzheimer s disease 143 in the second debate reagan improved his performance and when asked about questions of his age he said i will not make age an issue of this campaign i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent s youth and inexperience 144 reagan s statement made the entire audience laugh including the moderators and mondale himself 144 reagan also repeated his 1980 debate phrase there you go again 144 reagan was re elected in 1984 in a landslide victory reagan won 49 out of the 50 states 141 he carried more electoral votes than any other president in american history 141 second term 1985 89 change change source reagan being inaugurated as president at the white house january 1985 reagan was sworn in as president once again on january 20 1985 he was sworn in at the white house due to cold weather 141 in the weeks after he changed his staff by moving white house chief of staff james baker to secretary of the treasury and naming treasury secretary donald regan to chief of staff 145 foreign policy change change source reagan 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