...Politically. Huge contributions were contributed to the American society every decade by the past leaders. These Contributions has help mode the United States into what it is today. There has been a great deal of wars fought by this country for its civil rights and people. After the many battles and wars that the United States endured, the United States never let their dreams die. Many of their dreams came true, many of their dreams failed due to different programs and policies from our former leaders of America. For instance, the Watergate Scandal in the 1970s was one of the great events that became memorable. The drastic tax cut in the 80’s by President Ronald Reagan also became memorable. Almost every president in the United States past has left some sort of significant legacies with their leadership in some sort of way. The leaders that made mistakes also help to shape the country to what it is today because of their past mistake. Their past mistakes help to create a solution for success further down the road. Our education, businesses, homes, and families were affected through our past leaders decisions. Through it all the success and failures the country remains strong. The 1950’s- The Rise of the Cold War The Cold War was a time when the nations were fighting each other and wanted nothing more than to take each other lives. There was no blood shed for a long time. Instead of killing each other at the first chance...
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...government agency. STRATEGY RESEARCH PROJECT •» BE THE REAGAN WAY: USING LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR STRATEGIC SUCCESS BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM E. COBURN United States Air Force Reserve DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A: Approved for Public Release. Distribution is Unlimited. USAWC CLASS OF 2000 U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE, CARLISLE BARRACKS, PA 17013-5050 " ■ "■"" "" 20000320 086 USAWC STRATEGY RESEARCH PROJECT THE REAGAN WAY: USING LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR STRATEGIC SUCCESS by Lieutenant Colonel William E. Coburn U. S. Air Force Reserve Dr. Robert Murphy Project Advisor The views expressed in this academic research paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, or any of its agencies. U.S. Army War College CARLISLE BARRACKS, PENNSYLVANIA 17013 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A: Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited. ABSTRACT AUTHOR: TITLE: FORMAT: DATE: William E. Coburn The Reagan Way: Using Leadership Skills for Strategic Success Strategy Research Project 10 April 2000 PAGES: 22 CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified In spite of many critics who belittled his style and his presidency, Ronald Reagan is increasingly viewed as a heroic President who fulfilled his vision of restoring peace and prosperity at home and freedom abroad. The thesis of this paper is that Reagan used certain key leadership skills to succeed as President that may be used as a model...
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...Iran-Contra Affair, which took place in 1985, during the Reagan administration. Shortly after taking office, President Reagan found himself facing difficult decisions, as many presidents have done so before and after him. Foreign policy is at the top of every presidents list during their term in office; Reagan’s foreign policy was to achieve “peace through strength”. This policy was put to the test when U.S. government officials became threatened of national security relations with two seemingly unrelated counties Iran and Nicaragua. Tension rose when radical Islamic movement overthrew U.S. backed Iran government in 1979. The U.S. tried bolstering relation with Iran by selling weapons to them, in turn the administration felt with the backing of Iran they could negotiate the release of seven American hostages being held by Iranian terrorists in Lebanon. On the other side of the world was Nicaragua which the U.S. has shown interest since the 20th century, due to the region’s close proximity to America. Relations with Nicaragua, falter after the Nicaragua government was toppled by a revolutionary government, the Sandinista Liberation Front. Tensions worsen, when Sandinistas sought relationship ties with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Reagan and his administration pushed political power to the brink by using profits from weapons sold to Iran to fund Contra militants to topple the Sandinista government. The action conducted by the Reagan administration was in direct violation of prohibited...
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...Communicator The great communicator – is the phrase coined to describe Ronald Reagan by both his supporters and his critics. His approach to leadership was truly charismatic. John D Rockefeller said, “The ability to deal with people is as purchasable as a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for anything under the sun”. Reagan had the ability to get others to conform to his version of what a nation really should be. Ronald Reagan continually developed his leadership ability from his early years, while he was governor of California, and during his presidency. It was during his early years when Reagan first began to stand above his peers. He got his first taste of office when he became involved with his high school student body. By his senior year he had become the student council president. While he attended college, Reagan continued to hone his leadership abilities by getting involved in the student government, eventually working his way up to the student body president. However, it was after college while working for NBC as a play by play announcer that he was able to find his voice. With his new found fame, he was able to acquire a screen test with Warner Brothers, which he won and was signed to a seven-year contract. It was at some point during his movie carrier while acting as the president of the screen actor’s guild that Reagan got involved in politics. Reagan was convinced by a group of prominent business men to try to run for Governor...
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...Ronald Reagan are two men who I believe were two of the most influential people in the world. While these two men shared many similarities in their life, presidency, and influence, they were also different in many ways. They both achieved what many believed to be the impossible. Maybe by looking at the past and these two great men, we can learn about perseverance in hard times. President Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky. He spent most of his early childhood years on a farm his parents owned. His father was one of the richest men in the area. In 1816, his father lost the family farm in a court decision and the family moved to Indiana. He spent all of his early years in a region of the United States in non-slave states. When he left home he went to New Orleans, Louisiana and saw slavery for himself first hand. He joined the militia in 1832 and served three months as a Captain during the Black Hawk War. President Ronald Regan was born February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois. Unlike President Lincoln, President Reagan spent his early childhood in many cities away from the farms. His father was a salesman and moved the family numerous times. President Reagan attended Eureka College where he was involved in school politics. Similar to President Lincoln, he also served his country. After college he enlisted in the United States Army Reserve. He was later commissioned in 1937. During his military career, President Reagan was involved...
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...Alan Greenspan The Modern Economist Charter College Christina Cruz Abstract Alan Greenspan a great Modern Economist was the second longest appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 and served five intervals until 2006. He describes himself as a “long life Libertarian Republican." He now works as a private adviser and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. Alan Greenspan: The Modern Economist Alan Greenspan the modern day economist born March 6, 1926 into a Jewish family. He helped the United States prolong the modern day recession, but still seen the collapse. He served on the Federal Reserve as the second longest term in four year intervals. He was first appointed as President Gerald Ford’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. The job of the Council of Economic Advisors was consulting the President of the United States on the welfare of the U.S. economy. Then in 1987 Alan was appointed as chairman of the Federal Reserve by Ronald Reagan and there he served until 2006. As a child parents, Rose Goldsmith was a homemaker, and his father Herbert Greenspan was a stockbroker and a market analyst in New York City. While in high school at George Washington High school, Alan played the clarinet in a band named Woody Herman band, after graduating high school, Alan actually went to Juilliard School from...
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...The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy Strayer University Summer 2014 The purpose of the Reagan Doctrine was to “sponsor anticommunist guerrillas who are trying to overthrow pro-Soviet regimes” (Roskin, 2010, p.58). It was implemented in the mid-1980’s; specifically mentioned in a discrete manner in President Reagan’s 1985 State of the Union Address and lasted less than a decade, until the end of the Cold War in 1991. One of the major challenges that President Reagan faced throughout his time in office was Communism and the Cold War. Although these issues had been a problem through several presidencies, they began to escalate in the early years of Reagan’s administration. Reagan believed that President Carter provided minimal leadership to reverse communism. In 1985 President Reagan introduced the principles of the doctrine through support of anti-communist revolutions. During his State of the Union Address in 1985 he compared, “anticommunist forces with American colonists who had fought the revolutionary war, describing those latter-day patriots as ‘freedom fighters’ for democracy” (“The Reagan Doctrine”, 2014, par. 2). The doctrine was created to decrease the Soviet influence in Africa, Asia and Latin America as part of the Reagan administration’s Cold War strategy (Reagan Doctrine, 2014). It has been argued that the Reagan doctrine contributed to the fall of communism itself. One of the diplomatic efforts that occurred during Reagan’s time in office was the support...
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...Some say Ronald Reagan was the most skillful and greatest president of the United States. Others claim the nation would have been better without him. Regardless, Ronald Reagan made a tremendous impact in the 1980’s following a unique path to the presidency and faced many obstacles while in office. Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois. He grew up in a poor family with his parents, Nelle and Jack Reagan. Despite this economic hardship, he graduated from high school earning a football scholarship to Eureka College. After graduating from college, Ronald Reagan moved to Hollywood to pursue an acting career. He signed a seven year contract with Warner Bros., and starred in over fifty movies. While in Hollywood, he became president of the Screen Actors Guild, an organization committed to removing all suspected Communists from the film industry. Becoming president of the Screen Actors Guild is where Ronald Reagan found his passion for leadership and politics. In 1964, Ronald Reagan spoke about the then-current presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater, on live television. This political discussion afforded him attention as more than just an actor and inspired him to speak about American issues on a regular basis, advocating for a stronger national defense, reduction of taxes and keeping a watchful eye on...
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...speech. This amendment led to the rise of Joseph McCarthy a great hater and fighter for anti communist ideas that were against the ideas and philosophy of the United States government.He would blacklist many innocent people in the United States government stating that they were communists. His work led to the arrest of many people many of whom were not even communist.His downfall was under the leadership of President Dwight Eisenhower. McCarthy went after the United State military claiming that their were were many communist member. Dwight Eisenhower stated that McCarthy had no decency because was accusing the military,the force that was keeping him safe from the terrors of communism....
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...Ronald Reagan was a tactical man; he led the way to the ultimate demise of communism in the Soviet Union. No blood was shed in the cold war and that was because of his genius thinking and unique leadership. Ronald Reagan and his policies led to the major collapse of the Soviet Union. Reagan killed their economy while simultaneously building up his own nations defense system. Reagan ideas that the Soviet Union had a dangerous military system and a collapsing economy did not stem from any intense, extensive knowledge on the Soviet Union. His lack of knowledge did not stop him from taking the steps he took to rise above the Union. His thoughts towards the soviets were inscribed in his policies towards the Soviets. The Soviet leadership avoided serious economic changes due to the inflated oil prices in the 1970s....
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...Ronald Wilson Reagan, born February 6th, 1911, was the son of Nelle and John Reagan. He was born in Tampico, Illinois, but moved repeatedly throughout his childhood. His mother was very religious, while his father was an alcoholic. Ronald Reagan’s religious views and acting skills were developed during these years as he participated in church activities, along with maintaining a relationship with the pastor’s daughter. He attended high school in Dixon, eventually enrolling at Eureka College as a freshman in 1928 (Thill, Scott). Ronald Reagan attended Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois. Although he was active in the drama society and played gridiron football, he only received passing grades. He was elected class president his senior year due...
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...After taking office Reagan began taking a new foreign policy coarse from his predecessors immediately distinguishing him from previous polices. Harry S. Truman's administration advocated "containment," a historic direct confrontation with the "Domino Theory" of communist hegemony, and three presidential successors maintained that Reagan saw that the time had come to tighten containment and finally destroy Soviet Communism. Like Franklin D. Roosevelt before him, he sought to destroy an "evil empire," not just contain it. His leadership brought the international nightmare of the Cold War to a conclusion. Many historians citing the U.S. military buildup under Reagan and the pressures exerted by his pet program, the Strategic Defence Initiative....
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...The Reagan Doctrine The Reagan Doctrine popularized during the two-term presidency of Ronald Wilson Reagan was one which he hinted to in his 1985 State of the Union Address. He affirmed to the American public and the world that “We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives--on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua--to defy Soviet aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth. Support for freedom fighters is self-defense.” (Reagan, 1985, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 21, no. 6). This theme was expanded upon afterwards by then Secretary of State George Shultz, and picked up by journalists, most notably Charles Krauthammer who was first to give the Reagan Doctrine its name in his column in the April 1, 1985 issue of Time magazine. The Reagan Doctrine contended that the United States had a duty to oppose the spread of communist dictatorships and to support the freedom fighters that were part of insurgencies defying Soviet aggression. Its policies were rooted in the 1950s anti-communist doctrines long supported by Americans; however it differed in that “containment” was no longer its only goal. Under the Reagan doctrinal policy it was now permissible to support freedom fighters seeking to throw off governments in counties suffering under communist domination. The rhetorical outpouring of the Reagan Doctrine was much more universal than its actual enactment of policy. This was attributed largely to the impact on U.S. interests...
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...Compare and Contrast Effective and Ineffective Leaders Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan; (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American actor and politician. He was the 40th President of the United States (1981–89). Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd Governor of California (1967–75). Reagan had many achievements throughout his presidency. Two of which, are as listed: 1. Ending the Cold War: The Cold War had raged since World War II and communism‘s quest for world domination remained an existential threat to the United States when President Reagan took office. Reagan reversed the policy of detente and stood firm against the Soviet Union, calling it the Evil Empire and telling Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” in Berlin. He was relentless in pushing his Strategic Defense Initiative and gave aid to rebels battling Soviet-backed Marxists from Nicaragua to Angola. Those efforts were critical in the ultimate collapse of the Soviet empire and essentially ended the Cold War. 2. Reaganomics: Reagan’s mix of across-the-board tax cuts, deregulation, and domestic spending restraint helped fuel an economic boom that lasted two decades. Reagan inherited a misery index (the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates) of 19.99%, and when he left office it had dropped to 9.72%. President Obama take note: Under Reaganomics, 16 million new jobs were created. “In his lifetime, Ronald Reagan was such a cheerful and invigorating presence that it was easy...
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...Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States, was known for his charismatic leadership and oratorical skills. Ronald Reagan was an actor, so he knew how to attract an audience and keep them attentive. One of Reagan’s most famous speeches was Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate. His use of language, literary techniques, and tone highly impacted this speech and set it above the average. When Reagan gave a speech, he knew who he was speaking to. He engaged with the audience and made remarks especially for the crowd he was speaking to. President Reagan relates back to when the wall was first built and mentioned how another American president came to speak to the people of berlin. “…President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago,...
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