The Reagan Era People
Who Made It Happen
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) was a Hollywood actor turned politician, who served as Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, and as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A...
Nancy Reagan
Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) is the wife of Ronald Reagan, and former First Lady of both California (1967–1975) and the United States (1981–1989). A Hollywood actress in her younger days, Na...
Arthur Laffer
Arthur Laffer (1940–) is a conservative economist whose unorthodox ideas on tax rates and revenues heavily influenced Ronald Reagan's tax policies in the early 1980s. Laffer suggested that lower...
George Bush
George H. W. Bush (1924–) is the oldest living United States president, and he occupied the White House from 1989 to 1993. In a long career of public service, Bush also served as U.S. R...
Oliver North
Oliver North (1943–) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps who became a key figure in the Reagan Administration's Iran-Contra Scandal in the late 1980s. Iran-Contra led to North'...
Edwin Meese
Edwin Meese (1931–), a conservative Republican lawyer, was for many years, a close adviser and confidant of Ronald Reagan. Meese served as Reagan's chief of staff while Reagan was Governor o...
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–) was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, leading the USSR from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. As General Secretary, he sought to...