Write a 350-to 700-word transcript of an interview with Ronald Reagan as if you were a Sunday morning political commentator and Ronald Reagan was alive today.
Watch “Ronald Reagan Presidency and Television” located in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.
Formulate questions based on each of the following topics and then write the answers that you believe Reagan would have given. Use at least some of Reagan’s original language in answering your questions.
Principles of the New Right
End of the Cold War
Supply-side economics
Choose one additional item from the following list to complete your assignment
Iran Contra affair
Social security and other social programs
Raising the debt
Military spending
Cutting the size of the government
Attempted assassination
Hostages coming home
Religious Right
Tea Party movement origins
Key social movements during the 1980s—for example, the fight for AIDS funding
Watch “Ronald Reagan Presidency and Television” located in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.
Formulate questions based on each of the following topics and then write the answers that you believe Reagan would have given. Use at least some of Reagan’s original language in answering your questions.
Principles of the New Right
End of the Cold War
Supply-side economics
Choose one additional item from the following list to complete your assignment
Iran Contra affair
Social security and other social programs
Raising the debt
Military spending
Cutting the size of the government
Attempted assassination
Hostages coming home
Religious Right
Tea Party movement origins
Key social movements during the 1980s—for example, the fight for AIDS funding
