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#Reagan-Administration

Events indexed under #Reagan-Administration — 32 entries in the record.

32 events From Jan 1, 1979 To Jun 16, 1992 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
1992-06-16Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Indicted on Five Iran-Contra Felonies
Caspar Weinberger · Lawrence Walsh · Ronald Reagan · George H.W. Bush
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1990-02-16Reagan Testifies "I Don't Recall" Repeatedly in Iran-Contra Deposition
Ronald Reagan · John Poindexter
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1990-01-01Hoover Institution Organizational Profile: Leveraging Stanford Prestige for Conservative Policy Legitimacy
Hoover Institution · Herbert Hoover · Stanford University · Ronald Reagan · +5
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1989-05-04Oliver North Convicted of Iran-Contra Felonies, Later Overturned on Immunity
Oliver North · Gerhard Gesell · Lawrence Walsh
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1987-05-06CIA Director William Casey Dies Before Testifying on Iran-Contra Role
William Casey · Ronald Reagan · Richard Secord
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1987-05-05Televised Iran-Contra Congressional Hearings Begin, Riveting Nation
Oliver North · John Poindexter · George Shultz · Caspar Weinberger
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1987-02-26Tower Commission Report Released, Criticized as Whitewash of Iran-Contra
Ronald Reagan · John Tower · Edmund Muskie · Brent Scowcroft · +1
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1986-11-25Attorney General Meese Reveals Iran-Contra Scandal to Public
Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Oliver North · John Poindexter
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1986-11-21Oliver North Begins Systematic Destruction of Iran-Contra Evidence
Oliver North · Fawn Hall · John Poindexter
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1986-10-22Reagan 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
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1986-09-26Reagan Vetoes Apartheid Sanctions, Congress Overrides in Historic Rebuke
Ronald Reagan · Desmond Tutu
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1985-12-04NSC Running Shadow Foreign Policy Through McFarlane and Poindexter
Robert McFarlane · John Poindexter · Oliver North · Ronald Reagan
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1985-08-20First Secret Arms Shipment to Iran Initiates Iran-Contra Scandal
Ronald Reagan · Robert McFarlane · Oliver North · Manucher Ghorbanifar
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1985-03-15Opus Dei Members Enter Reagan Administration
Ronald Reagan · Opus Dei Members · Republican Party
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1984-10-30Cable Communications Policy Act - Media Deregulation and Consolidation Enabled
Ronald Reagan · Barry Goldwater · Federal Communications Commission · Cable industry
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1984-10-12Boland Amendment Explicitly Prohibits All U.S. Funding for Contras
Edward Boland · Ronald Reagan
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1984-06-01CIA Director Casey and Oliver North Create "The Enterprise" -- A Private Intelligence Operation Template
William Casey · Oliver North · Richard Secord · Albert Hakim · +2
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1983-12-20Donald Rumsfeld Meets Saddam Hussein as Reagan Special Envoy to Iraq
Donald Rumsfeld · Saddam Hussein · Ronald Reagan
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1982-11-17SEC Adopts Rule 10b-18, Legalizing Stock Buybacks and Creating Major Wealth Extraction Mechanism
Securities and Exchange Commission · John Shad · Ronald Reagan
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1982-10-15Reagan Signs Garn-St Germain Act: Massive Thrift Deregulation
Ronald Reagan · Jake Garn (R-UT) · Fernand St Germain (D-RI) · Chuck Schumer · +3
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1982-09-16Reagan Supports Philippine Dictator Marcos Despite Massive Kleptocracy
Ronald Reagan · Ferdinand Marcos · Imelda Marcos · Nancy Reagan
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1982-09-03Reagan 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
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1982-06-29Voting Rights Act Extension of 1982: Results Test Adopted, Section 2 Strengthened After Reagan Opposition
Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Bob Dole · Edward Kennedy · +2
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1982-03-23Guatemala Military Coup Brings Ríos Montt to Power with Reagan Support
Ronald Reagan · Efraín Ríos Montt
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1982-01-08AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades
AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · Robert Bork
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1981-12-04Reagan Signs Executive Order 12333, Loosening Intelligence Restrictions and Enabling Private Contractor Involvement
Ronald Reagan · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +1
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1981-08-13Reagan 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
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1981-04-13Reagan 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
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1981-01-20Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation
Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Douglas Ginsburg · Robert Bork · +4
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1981-01-01ALEC Establishes Cabinet Task Forces and Partners with Reagan's Task Force on Federalism
American Legislative Exchange Council · Ronald Reagan · Paul Laxalt · Tom Stivers · +1
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1980-03-24U.S. Backs El Salvador Death Squad Government Through 12-Year Civil War
Ronald Reagan · Roberto D'Aubuisson · Oscar Romero
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1979-01-01Heritage Foundation Begins "Mandate for Leadership" Preparation for Reagan Transition
Edwin Feulner · Jack Eckerd · Robert Krieble · Heritage Foundation
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