Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan is named in 76 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1947 to 1992.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-06-16 | Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Indicted on Five Iran-Contra Felonies Caspar Weinberger · Lawrence Walsh · Ronald Reagan · George H.W. Bush | confirmed | |
| 1990-02-16 | Reagan Testifies "I Don't Recall" Repeatedly in Iran-Contra Deposition Ronald Reagan · John Poindexter | confirmed | |
| 1990-01-01 | Hoover Institution Organizational Profile: Leveraging Stanford Prestige for Conservative Policy Legitimacy Hoover Institution · Herbert Hoover · Stanford University · Ronald Reagan · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1989-01-20 | Reagan Leaves Office: Domestic Corruption and Policy Failure Legacy Ronald Reagan · George H.W. Bush · American public | confirmed | |
| 1988-11-18 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Creates "Aggravated Felony" Category, Merging War on Drugs with Deportation Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1988-08-04 | WARN Act Passes with Corporate Loopholes, Toothless Plant Closing Protection U.S. Congress · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · AFL-CIO | confirmed | |
| 1987-10-23 | Senate Rejects Robert Bork Supreme Court Nomination 42-58, First Ideological Rejection in Nearly a Century Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · Edward Kennedy · Lewis Powell · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1987-08-04 | Reagan FCC Abolishes Fairness Doctrine in 4-0 Vote, Eliminating Balanced Coverage Requirements for Broadcasters Dennis R. Patrick · Federal Communications Commission · Ronald Reagan · Mark S. Fowler · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1987-05-06 | CIA Director William Casey Dies Before Testifying on Iran-Contra Role William Casey · Ronald Reagan · Richard Secord | confirmed | |
| 1987-02-26 | Tower Commission Report Released, Criticized as Whitewash of Iran-Contra Ronald Reagan · John Tower · Edmund Muskie · Brent Scowcroft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | AIDS Death Toll Reaches 25,000: Reagan Administration Inaction Continues Ronald Reagan · AIDS patients · LGBTQ community · Public health officials · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1986-11-25 | Attorney General Meese Reveals Iran-Contra Scandal to Public Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Oliver North · John Poindexter | confirmed | |
| 1986-11-06 | Immigration Reform and Control Act Grants Amnesty to 3 Million, Employer Sanctions Fail Ronald Reagan · Alan Simpson · Romano Mazzoli · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-27 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Establishes 100-to-1 Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-22 | Koop Releases AIDS Report After Five-Year Delay: Public Health vs Politics C. Everett Koop · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-22 | Reagan Signs Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Top Individual Rate Cut from 50% to 28%, Corporate Rate Slashed from 46% to 34%, Tax Brackets Reduced from 16 to 2 Ronald Reagan · Dan Rostenkowski · Bob Packwood · Bill Bradley · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-22 | Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Corporate Lobbying Secures Massive Rate Reductions Ronald Reagan · Corporate lobbyists · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-21 | Congress Passes Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Codifies Third-Party Doctrine for Digital Communications Robert Kastenmeier · Patrick Leahy · Ronald Reagan · 99th Congress | confirmed | |
| 1986-09-26 | Reagan Vetoes Apartheid Sanctions, Congress Overrides in Historic Rebuke Ronald Reagan · Desmond Tutu | confirmed | |
| 1986-04-07 | EMTALA Passes as Unfunded Mandate, Enabling Insurance Industry to Shift Emergency Care Costs to Hospitals Ronald Reagan · American Hospital Association · Health Insurance Association of America · Pete Stark | confirmed | |
| 1986-02-25 | Meese Announces West Publishing Deal: Presidential Signing Statements Enter U.S. Code Legislative History Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Samuel Alito · West Publishing Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1985-12-04 | NSC Running Shadow Foreign Policy Through McFarlane and Poindexter Robert McFarlane · John Poindexter · Oliver North · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1985-10-02 | Rock Hudson Dies of AIDS: Reagan Forced to Finally Acknowledge Crisis Rock Hudson · Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan · C. Everett Koop | confirmed | |
| 1985-08-20 | First Secret Arms Shipment to Iran Initiates Iran-Contra Scandal Ronald Reagan · Robert McFarlane · Oliver North · Manucher Ghorbanifar | confirmed | |
| 1985-03-15 | Opus Dei Members Enter Reagan Administration Ronald Reagan · Opus Dei Members · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-01 | Trickle-Down Legacy: Reagan Policies Make Inequality Structural Feature Ronald Reagan · American workers · Wealthy elite · Corporate executives | confirmed | |
| 1984-10-30 | Cable Communications Policy Act - Media Deregulation and Consolidation Enabled Ronald Reagan · Barry Goldwater · Federal Communications Commission · Cable industry | confirmed | |
| 1984-10-12 | Boland Amendment Explicitly Prohibits All U.S. Funding for Contras Edward Boland · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1984-09-24 | Hatch-Waxman Act Grants Pharma Patent Extensions While Creating Loopholes to Block Generics Orrin Hatch · Henry Waxman · Ronald Reagan · PhRMA | confirmed | |
| 1984-06-01 | CIA Director Casey and Oliver North Create "The Enterprise" -- A Private Intelligence Operation Template William Casey · Oliver North · Richard Secord · Albert Hakim · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1983-12-20 | Donald Rumsfeld Meets Saddam Hussein as Reagan Special Envoy to Iraq Donald Rumsfeld · Saddam Hussein · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1983-12-01 | Rita Lavelle Convicted of Perjury: EPA Superfund Corruption Confirmed Rita Lavelle · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Aerojet-General Corporation · Ronald Reagan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1983-10-09 | James Watt Resigns After Racist Remarks: Interior Department Corruption Ends James Watt · Ronald Reagan · Department of Interior · Beach Boys | confirmed | |
| 1983-04-26 | A Nation at Risk Report Launches Education Reform Industry, Lays Groundwork for Privatization National Commission on Excellence in Education · Secretary of Education Terrel Bell · Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1983-04-20 | Medicare Adopts DRG Prospective Payment System Creating Hospital Profit Incentives for Reduced Care Ronald Reagan · Richard Schweiker · American Hospital Association · Federation of American Hospitals | confirmed | |
| 1983-03-09 | Anne Gorsuch Resigns EPA After Contempt of Congress: Regulatory Capture Exposed Anne Gorsuch Burford · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1983-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Expands to 100+ Staff with $10 Million Budget During Reagan Administration Peak Influence Heritage Foundation · Edwin Feulner · Ronald Reagan · Richard Scaife · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-11-17 | SEC Adopts Rule 10b-18, Legalizing Stock Buybacks and Creating Major Wealth Extraction Mechanism Securities and Exchange Commission · John Shad · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-10-15 | Reagan Signs Garn-St Germain Act: Massive Thrift Deregulation Ronald Reagan · Jake Garn (R-UT) · Fernand St Germain (D-RI) · Chuck Schumer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1982-10-14 | Reagan Declares Intensified War on Drugs: Federal Drug Enforcement Budget Skyrockets as Incarceration Becomes National Policy Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan · Edwin Meese · DEA | confirmed | |
| 1982-09-16 | Reagan Supports Philippine Dictator Marcos Despite Massive Kleptocracy Ronald Reagan · Ferdinand Marcos · Imelda Marcos · Nancy Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-09-03 | Reagan Signs TEFRA Reversing Much of ERTA - Largest Peacetime Tax Increase Raises $100 Billion After Revenue Collapse Ronald Reagan · Robert Dole · Jack Kemp · Bruce Bartlett · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-30 | Equal Rights Amendment Defeated After Schlafly's Decade-Long Campaign, Establishing Conservative Movement Model Phyllis Schlafly · STOP ERA · Eagle Forum · Ronald Reagan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-29 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1982: Results Test Adopted, Section 2 Strengthened After Reagan Opposition Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Bob Dole · Edward Kennedy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-03-23 | Guatemala Military Coup Brings Ríos Montt to Power with Reagan Support Ronald Reagan · Efraín Ríos Montt | confirmed | |
| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · DC Circuit Court of Appeals · Federalist Society · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-08 | AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · Robert Bork | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-01 | Reagan Deficit Explosion: National Debt Triples From $1T to $3T in Eight Years Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Office of Management and Budget · Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-01 | S&L Deregulation Creates Moral Hazard: Recipe for Systematic Fraud Ronald Reagan · Savings and Loan industry · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation | confirmed | |
| 1981-12-04 | Reagan Signs Executive Order 12333, Loosening Intelligence Restrictions and Enabling Private Contractor Involvement Ronald Reagan · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-09-29 | Reagan Orders Coast Guard Interdiction of Haitian Refugees, Establishing Maritime Asylum Denial Ronald Reagan · U.S. Coast Guard · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Jean-Claude Duvalier · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-08-13 | Reagan Signs Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) - Top Rate Slashed from 70% to 50%, Corporate Tax Cuts Total $150 Billion Over Five Years Ronald Reagan · Jack Kemp · William Roth · David Stockman · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1981-08-13 | Reagan Signs ERTA: Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy Begin Inequality Explosion Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Jack Kemp · William Roth | confirmed | |
| 1981-08-03 | Reagan Fires PATCO Strikers: Union-Busting Era Begins Ronald Reagan · Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization · PATCO · Federal Aviation Administration | confirmed | |
| 1981-06-05 | AIDS Epidemic Begins: Reagan Administration Maintains Years of Deadly Silence Ronald Reagan · Centers for Disease Control · C. Everett Koop · Larry Speakes | confirmed | |
| 1981-04-13 | Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Stanford Law School · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-28 | Reagan Appoints James Watt as Interior Secretary - Oil Industry Capture Ronald Reagan · James Watt · Mountain States Legal Foundation · Coors Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Douglas Ginsburg · Robert Bork · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | ALEC Establishes Cabinet Task Forces and Partners with Reagan's Task Force on Federalism American Legislative Exchange Council · Ronald Reagan · Paul Laxalt · Tom Stivers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Corporate Tax Avoidance Explosion: Reagan Loopholes Slash Corporate Revenue Ronald Reagan · Corporate America · Internal Revenue Service · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" Becomes Reagan Administration Blueprint Heritage Foundation · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Meese · James Watt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Administration Muzzles Surgeon General Koop on AIDS for Five Years C. Everett Koop · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Environmental Deregulation: Systematic Dismantling of Protections Ronald Reagan · Anne Gorsuch · James Watt · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Era Wage Stagnation: Real Wages Decline as Inequality Accelerates Ronald Reagan · American workers · Labor unions · Corporate America | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Supply-Side Economics Failure: Empirical Evidence Debunks Trickle-Down Theory Ronald Reagan · Arthur Laffer · David Stockman · Greg Mankiw · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Wealth Inequality Explodes: Reagan Policies Accelerate Income Gap Ronald Reagan · Top 1% earners · Middle class · Working class | confirmed | |
| 1980-11-04 | Ronald Reagan Elected President, Conservative Infrastructure Achieves Powell Memo Goals Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1980-08-03 | Reagan Launches General Election Campaign with 'States' Rights' Speech Near Civil Rights Murder Site Ronald Reagan · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1980-07-01 | Reagan Aide Edwin Meese Coordinates with Heritage on "Mandate for Leadership" Edwin Meese III · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-03-24 | U.S. Backs El Salvador Death Squad Government Through 12-Year Civil War Ronald Reagan · Roberto D'Aubuisson · Oscar Romero | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-27 | Reagan Launches 'Welfare Queen' Attack Using Racially Coded Chicago Fraud Story Ronald Reagan · Linda Taylor | confirmed | |
| 1965-07-30 | Medicare and Medicaid Signed Into Law After Defeating Decades of AMA Opposition and Reagan Propaganda Campaign President Lyndon B. Johnson · President Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1962-02-13 | King-Anderson Medicare Bill Defeated in Committee After Intense Corporate Lobbying Cecil R. King · Clinton Anderson · John F. Kennedy · Wilbur Mills · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1961-01-01 | AMA Launches Operation Coffee Cup with Reagan Recording to Defeat Medicare Through Grassroots Deception American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · Loyal Davis · Women's Auxiliary of the AMA | confirmed | |
| 1947-10-20 | HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses" House Un-American Activities Committee · J. Parnell Thomas · Robert E. Stripling · Walt Disney · +9 | confirmed |
Network neighbors
U.S. Congress
11× shared
Heritage Foundation
6× shared
Department of Justice
5× shared
Edwin Meese
5× shared
C. Everett Koop
4× shared
Jack Kemp
4× shared
James Watt
4× shared
John Poindexter
4× shared
Oliver North
4× shared
Robert Bork
4× shared
William Casey
4× shared
American Enterprise Institute
3× shared
American Medical Association
3× shared
Edwin Feulner
3× shared
Federal Trade Commission
3× shared
Nancy Reagan
3× shared
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
3× shared
U.S. Senate Finance Committee
3× shared
William F. Baxter
3× shared
American Hospital Association
2× shared
American workers
2× shared
Arthur Laffer
2× shared
Corporate America
2× shared
David Stockman
2× shared
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