...speak casually and directly to the people. As Kathleen Hall Jamieson notes in “Eloquence in the Electronic Age,” Reagan’s grasp of modern technology allowed him to capture the attention of the American audience. Reagan was a master of storytelling and manipulation of his audience, which can be attributed to his career as a Hollywood actor. He preferred the “story” over the facts, and was a “very straightforward, plain-spoken communicator.” This style of communicating is common with Republican leaders from former President George W. Bush to current President Donald Trump. One...
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...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 by other strategic leaders. In examining Reagan's leadership skills, the competencies of...
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...United States, Ronald Reagan. Americans had high expectations of the space programs which intended to provide the United States a great sense of achievement. The significance of the space program lies in essence in which symbolized American glory in science and technology. (Lambright) Therefore, the audience of Reagan’s speech was American public; those who had experienced the tragic national loss of seven American astronauts resulted from the failure of space regime. Evidence of Reagan constantly involving American citizens prevail throughout the speech. He specifically engaged the audience by employing words such as “we,” “us,” “schoolchildren of America,” giving the audience a sense of involvement in the national matter. Reagan also acknowledged pain of the families of the seven astronauts. He showed his understanding of pain of families by saying “we feel the loss, and we are thinking about you so very much,” “your loved ones,” which was an attempt to console them by implicitly suggesting that the families are the primary audience of this speech. Moreover, he created a feeling that he and his wife Nancy are too involved as part of the public. The occasion of speech determines what speaker attempts to address. Audiences expect the speaker to arrive conclusions in an appropriate behavior depending on the occasion. Reagan’s speech on space camp could be categorized in two dimensions: deliberative and...
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...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 to forget what daunting historic tasks he set himself. He sought to mend America's wounded spirit, to restore the strength of the free world and to free the slaves of Communism...
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...primary strength Reagan possessed in office was his oratory skills, in which he was dubbed “The Great Communicator”. The presidency of Ronald Reagan corresponded with a “long period of dramatic economic growth and the beginning of a momentous change in international relations.” (Brinkley, 2002). Through legislation, Reagan stimulated the economic growth, curbed inflation, and increased U.S. employment. By cutting taxes and Government expenditures Reagan overhauled the income tax code. By which, he removed many deductions and made exempt millions of low-income people. As the end of his term neared, our nation enjoyed “its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression.” (Freidel & Sidey, 2006). Another achievement of Reagan was his plan, Supply Side Economics. In a plan, he felt in order to improve the economy, the industries needed to be built up through “entrepreneurial skills” and the corporate wealth would “trickle down to the people.” (The 40th US President - Ronald Reagan). Raised in the small town of Dixon, Illinois, his parents Jack and Nelle Reagan were working class people with not much money. Ronald was named after a great-uncle Ronald Wilson. Ronald was a friendly, positive, popular, and happy youth, but his greatest challenge was overcoming his father’s alcoholism problem. Later, Reagan graduation high school and attended Eureka College where he was one of the visible and popular people on campus. Graduating...
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...the public’s confidence in the effectiveness of the military. “Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” (Ronald Reagan). Reagan’s speech called upon the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev, to tear down the Berlin Wall which divided Berlin and Germany into a half capitalist and half communist state. Two years later, the Communists agreed to have the wall torn down, unifying Germany, and destroying the last remnant of the old War. Today Germany is one country and the influence of communism in Europe has dissipated. Some of his greatest accomplishments were in foreign affairs, but he had accomplishments in economic and domestic affairs as well. Ronald Reagan greatly impacted the economy with his domestic affairs. “Reagan's confidence in the innate strength of the U.S. economy was validated in 1983 with the beginning of an almost unprecedented economic boom.” (Lou Cannon, “Ronald Reagan: Domestic Affairs”). The stock market rose greatly; the Dow Jones increased by close to 33 percent. The Gross National Product (GNP) increased by over 10 percent in 1983 and 1984. Unemployment dropped from almost 11 percent in 1982 to 7.4 percent in 1984. He managed to achieve this growth through his tax reforms, budget cuts and defense spending. “During Reagan's second term, the economic boom that had begun in 1983 expanded vigorously.” (Lou Cannon, “Ronald Reagan: Domestic Affairs”). Unemployment dropped to 5.2 percent by 1989. The...
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...then you will have economic growth, which I completely agree with. While Reagan was president he did exactly what he said he would do personally that is what makes him one of my favorite presidents he wasn’t as much of an politician as he was just a wise man. Getting back to ta rates he basically by his way he cut the tax rate from 70% to around 28%. Even though the national debt tripled while he was president due to the military spending that was really only his biggest flaw as president. Reaganomics essentially made a tax relief for the rich people and would allow them to spend, invest more. This new spending would ultimately fuel the economy plus create new jobs. Reagan believed that a tax cut of this nature would ultimately generate even more revenue for the federal government. Economists differed over the achievements of Reaganomics. Tax cuts also the increased military spending would likely cost the federal government trillions or more dollars. Reagan encouraged paying for these expenses by cutting government programs. In the end, the Congress accepted his tax and defense plans, but declined to make any deep cuts to the welfare state. Even Reagan himself felt sick about attacking prevalent programs like Social Security and Medicare, which take in the largest percentages of taxpayer dollars the results were skyrocketing records. Close the end of Ronald Reagan’s second term, tax revenues taken by the U.S....
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...Reagan’s Exhortation to Continue Exploration in the United States On January 28th, 1596, a world renowned explorer by the name of Sir Francis Drake died while exploring the oceans. Similarly 390 years later to the day, seven NASA astronauts lost their lives shortly after their shuttle, Challenger, took off. Both Drake and the shuttle crew dedicated their lives to exploring the unknown all in the name of discovery. Some of Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric in this speech was influenced by tensions in the wake of The Cold War. This expedition was groundbreaking, and many school children and citizens watched the take-off and then explosion live. Reagan uses juxtaposition, allusion, and diction that connects the audience to the words being uttered,...
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...valuable traits that by and large helped him to become the great leader he was. Did his character influence his leadership style? This is the core point as far as this former president of United States was concerned. His character shaped whom he became giving his all and championing his course to make America a better place to live for all the citizens. His election as the president restored the hopes of the Americans who had been disillusioned by the leadership whom majority felt had lost touch with the people. Wallison, P (2004) points out that his unique traits had great influence as far as his success as a president was concerned (23) One of his major accomplishments was restoring the people’s hope with the government. This achievement can be overlooked by many but it was such an important step since it regained the people hope and renewed their commitment for their country. This is the first step for any nation that is interested in forging ahead after years of scandals, wars and many other misgivings that they would like to forget. When Reagan was leaving office after his completion of the two terms he thanked all the American people and mostly those whom he called the members of the Reagan Revolution. He was proud that he had left his country a better place than he found. He was generally registering his satisfaction with his accomplishments but just like any other great leader would do he dedicated his success to his people since he knew very well that without...
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...Katherine Suarez HIST 3191 America in the 1980s Professor Edwards December 19, 2017 The Legacy of the 1980s What is the legacy of the 1980s in 2017? What are the similarities and differences? How have we progressed, stagnated and/or declined since the 1980s? The tensions of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, global terrorism, the existence of AIDS and other great tragedies marked the 1980s. But it was also a time of great advances and discoveries such as the first PC or the Internet. In addition, it was the decade where artists like the king of pop, Michael Jackson, shone, and at international level, dictatorships ended in several Latin American countries and without a doubt the “Reagan era”. Reagan’s advocates...
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...Ronald Reagan's running mate and served two terms as vice president from 1980 to 1988. On January 20, 1989, George Herbert Walker Bush was sworn in as the 41st president of the United States. As president, Bush oversaw major military actions such as the action in the middle east which got rid of Saddam Hussain’s presence in Kuwait. The was the invasion started was when “In 1989, Bush sent more than 24,000 troops to Panama to overthrow General Manuel Noriega. In 1988, Noriega had been charged with drug trafficking in the United States, and, in May 1989, he annulled a presidential vote after American poll watchers had claimed he had lost” (Greene and Hartwell). Another large military action took place on August 2, 1990. Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president, invaded Kuwait and threatened to enter Saudi Arabia. On August 21, President Bush sent 425,000 American troops and 118,000 troops from US allies to the Persian Gulf to secure Saudi Arabia and fight off the Iraqi army from Kuwait in a mission called Operation Desert Shield. Despite Bush's military victories and foreign achievements, throughout 1991 and 1992 discontent with his administration continued at home. With his vetoing of a bill to raise the minimum wage to $4.55 an hour as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1990 (vetoed because he was concerned it would create hiring quotas), and his agreement to raise taxes despite his promise to the contrary, Bush's approval ratings in January 1992 had tumbled to half of what they had...
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...The characteristics of a leader are to be agreed upon by many: intelligence, strong will, authoritative, influential…it takes great focus of mind and strength to triumph over goals and provide examples for followers. We need leaders. We need guidance and motivation, a clear head in the surrounding chaos to depend on. The necessary qualities of a leader will perpetually spark debates, but what can be agreed upon we can break down into three similar elements or categories. According to the readings, leadership is first and foremost a “group phenomenon”, meaning there can be no leader without a follower, and that leadership will always involve influence and/or persuasion over said follower(s). Second, leadership is “goal directed.” A leader’s actions are purposeful, and center on assisting a certain group to attain specific achievements. Lastly, “the presence of leaders assumes some form of hierarchy within a group.” That hierarchy can be strictly influenced by one commanding officer, or it can be loose and informal, with many voices being heard. If you Google Colin Powell, words like success, power, and influence appear bold and demanding throughout every page. More importantly is how often the word leadership shines through. Unlike the many other powerful adjectives used to define him, the word leader is apparent in each and every search result of his name. Powell himself states “a successful leader is somebody who has the ability to inspire followers,” and inspire, he does...
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...Educational Standards A. G. Com/172 Educational Standards Education is a vital good, like fresh food or medical treatment, and this has been proven since the 1800s. Although it is a responsibility of the individual States, the United States (U.S.) Government assumes the responsibility of deciding what constitutes “education” for school-age children in America (American History Journal, 2010). The American Government holds the sentiment that change to public schools’ curriculum is critical to advancement. This paper will discuss whether or not raising the U.S. Educational standard will give American students an advantage professionally. The History of the United States Education Department The American Educational Department was created in 1867 to gather information on schools and teaching. This information was used to help the United States produce effective schools. For over 130 years the department of education continues to provide information on what works in education to teachers and policy makers. In 1946, The United States Department of Education (ED) began vocational training in high schools. These training programs consisted of agriculture, industrial arts, and home economics, and were focused on better preparing students for future careers. In 1957, the U.S. voiced concerns...
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...1987, Powell got to be national security counselor, a post he held for the span of the Reagan organization. While there, he composed specialized and strategy counselors amid Reagan's summit gatherings with Soviet President Gorbachev and his meetings to topple the master Communist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. It was found that the organization had orchestrated incognito and illicit shipments of U.S. weapons to Iran in return for the arrival of prisoners. Continues from the offer of the weapons would go to bolster the counter-insurrection development in Nicaragua, which was gone for toppling the Sandinistas. Such backing had been disallowed by Congress since 1982. Powell was gotten some information about the occurrence, yet he was not involved in any wrongdoing. In 1989, President George H. W. Shrub selected General Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs. The post is the most elevated military position in the Department of Defense, and Powell was the first African-American officer to get that refinement. General Powell turned into a national figure amid Desert Shield and Desert Storm operations in Iraq. As boss military strategist, he created what got to be known as the "Powell Doctrine," a way to deal with military clashes that supporters utilizing overpowering power to amplify achievement and minimize setbacks. He proceeded as administrator of the Joint Chiefs in the initial couple of months of the Clinton organization. He freely couldn't help contradicting...
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...It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back: The War on Drugs, Mass Incarceration, and a Call to Action for America's Black Youth By Carl L. Young An Alternative Plan Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science In Sociology: Corrections Minnesota State University, Mankato Mankato, Minnesota Spring 2013 Final Draft 4/20/2013 1 This Alternative Plan Paper has been examined and approved by the following members of the Examining Committee. _____________________ Dr. Leah Rogne, Advisor _____________________ Dr. William Wagner _____________________ Dr. Penny Jo Rosenthal _____________________ Dr. Nadarajan Sethuraju ________________ Date 2 Abstract This alternative plan paper examines the circumstances that have evolved as a result of the Reagan Administration’s War on Drugs and the increase of mass incarceration of the Black community. In the last thirty years, the federal government of the United States of America has engaged in campaign known as the “War on Drugs,” which has involved a variety of policies to stop the production, distribution and sale of illegal narcotics. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent in a war that has targeted the most vulnerable in our society, impacting its youth for generations to come. This alternative plan paper addresses the impact of the War on Drugs and the criminal justice policies that have impacted the life chances of Black youth nationwide and calls for a new social movement...
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