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unusual facts about Reagan administration



Albert Facchiano

While still in prison, Facchiano became involved in an investigation of Reagan Administration U.S. Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan and his alleged ties to organized crime.

Brynn Thayer

Thayer was born in North Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Margery (Schwartz) and William Paul Thayer, a former naval officer and business executive who was Deputy Secretary of Defense (1983-1984) in the Reagan Administration.

Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade

The Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade was one of multiple Cabinet Councils established in the United States on or about February 26, 1981 by the Reagan Administration.

Chapman B. Cox

With the ending of the Reagan Administration, Cox became president and chief executive officer of the United Service Organizations.

Freaky Executives

Their song lyrics were explicitly critical of U.S. government policies, the Cold War, Apartheid and the Reagan administration.

History of the United States National Security Council 1989–93

After serving eight years as Vice President and participating in the momentous foreign affairs events of the Reagan Administration, President George H. W. Bush made many changes in the NSC machinery reformed by Frank Carlucci and Colin Powell.

John A. Todhunter

John A. Todhunter (born October 9, 1949 in Cali, Colombia) was an official in the Environmental Protection Agency during the Reagan administration.

José Napoleón Duarte

His regime is noted for large-scale human rights abuses and massacres amongst the civilian population, backed by the Reagan Administration and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Sheldon Rampton

During the 1980s and 1990s, he worked closely with the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN), which opposed the Reagan administration's military interventions in Central America and works to promote economic development, human rights, and mutual friendship between the people of the United States and Nicaragua.

Space Industries Incorporated

In 1988, the Reagan Administration requested $700 million from the annual budget in order to participate in the project, but the request was not approved by Congress, and the space station was never built.


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Citizens for the Republic

CFTR directors include for Attorney General of the United States Ed Meese, former Reagan policy advisor Peter D. Hannaford, and Mari Maseng, former Reagan administration speechwriter and political consultant and the second wife of columnist George Will.

J. Robinson West

Before founding PFC Energy in 1984, Robin served in the Reagan Administration as assistant secretary of the interior for policy, budget and administration (1981-83), with responsibility for U.S. offshore oil policy.

Jerry Regier

When Republican Frank Keating, a former Reagan Administration official, was elected Governor of Oklahoma in 1995, Keating appointed Regier to serve as the Deputy Director of the newly created Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA) under Executive Director Ken Lackey.

M. Peter McPherson

After his service in the Reagan administration, McPherson worked for Bank of America from 1989 to 1993 managing $600 million as the bank's executive vice president.

Mandate for Leadership

In particular, the Reagan administration hired key Mandate contributors Bill Bennett as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (and later as Secretary of Education) and James G. Watt as Secretary of the Interior.

Mark Levine

Mark Levin (born 1957), American radio host, lawyer, author, and political commentator who served in the Reagan administration

National Commission on AIDS

In response to the Reagan administration's failure to respond to the recommendations of the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic (1987–88), Congress passed legislation sponsored by Representative Roy Rowland, a Georgia Democrat and the only physician in Congress, that created the National Commission on AIDS.

National Voter Registration Act of 1993

This voter registration movement was spearheaded by the husband and wife team of Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward in the early 1980s in response to the Reagan administration.

Nicholas Daniloff

The Reagan administration took the position that the Soviets had arrested Daniloff without cause, in retaliation for the arrest three days earlier of Gennadi Zakharov, an employee of the Soviet UN Mission.

Office of Technology Assessment

Criticism of the agency was fueled by Fat City, a 1980 book by Donald Lambro that was regarded favorably by the Reagan administration; it called OTA an "unnecessary agency" that duplicated government work done elsewhere.

Richard and Linda J. Eyre

During the Reagan administration, Eyre served as the director of the White House Conference on Parents and Children.

Richard C. Cook

Though the Rogers Commission denied it, Cook maintains the Reagan Administration pushed hard for NASA to launch shuttle mission 51L against engineers’ recommendations so that "Teacher-in-Space" Christa McAuliffe would be aloft in time for the president's 1986 State of the Union Address.

Sino-Japanese relations

By the mid-1983, Beijing had decided coincidentally with its decision to improve relations with the Reagan administration of the United States to solidify ties with Japan.

Soviet Military Power

According to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Soviet Military Power did not constitute any form of propaganda aimed at supporting the increasing defense budgets of the Reagan Administration but was designed instead to alert the American public to a growing imbalance between the military capabilities of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Tenth Presbyterian Church

Notable members have included C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States during the Reagan administration and one-time head of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Wes Watkins

However, his independent candidacy siphoned off enough votes from Lieutenant Governor Jack Mildren, the Democratic candidate, to allow Frank Keating, a Reagan administration official, to become only the third Republican governor in Oklahoma history.

William Thayer

W. Paul Thayer (1919–2010), American test pilot, aviation executive, and Deputy Secretary of Defense during the Reagan Administration