Although laws had been broken, and Reagan's image suffered as a result of Iran-Contra, his popularity rebounded. In 1989 he left office with the highest approval rating of any president since ...

The Iran-Contra affair was not ... At a time, Sapphire wrote, when he most needs to appear strong president, Reagan is being weakened, and made to appear wimpish and helpless by the political ...

Boot captures a little bit of this (as in his discussions of Iran-Contra, which pitted Reagan loyalists who worried about protecting the president from engaging in possibly illegal acts against ...

Ron, the president’s son ... But in the fallout of the 1986 Iran-Contra affair, Reagan’s fitness to run a White House in crisis, as well as his knowledge of and role in the scandal, came ...

In 1980, the country was facing economic hardship, oil shortages, and a long hostage situation in Iran, where more ... combined to weaken President Jimmy Carter’s reelection campaign. Once elected, ...

Liberal critics like to remind us of Iran-Contra, the Savings and ... In short, he was “our Emersonian president.” Doubting the depths of Reagan’s conservatism sounds akin to doubting ...

Although laws had been broken, and Reagan's image suffered as a result of Iran-Contra, his popularity rebounded. In 1989 he left office with the highest approval rating of any president since ...