Reagan DIES on March 30, 1981

to be fair, a lot of Americans at the time wanted an increase in the defense budget... in the wake of Afghanistan and Iran, it's hardly surprising..

Even though both were the fault of American policy in the first place, due to the US involvement with Ajax and of course making Afghanistan the USSR's Vietnam
 
the Reagan recovery broadly lasted from 1982 to 2007, (with small recessions in 1990-1991 and 2001), the Reagan twenty-five-year expansion was the most extraordinary period of prosperity in American history. Indeed, the ‘Clinton boom’ was in reality a continuation of the Reagan boom, which saw the US create more wealth during this period than in the 200 years preceding it.
This is utter nonsense.
 
Even though both were the fault of American policy in the first place, due to the US involvement with Ajax and of course making Afghanistan the USSR's Vietnam
the USSR invasion of Afghanistan was scarcely the USA's fault, being a consequence of the Soviets wanting to keep a client state on their border in their orbit; the USA was certainly happy to take advantage of it, but they didn't cause it. As for Iran... yep, they certainly had a grudge. But it's hardly surprising that Americans took a dim view of the hostage crisis and wanted a militarily stronger US...
 
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