erican and Soviet leaders.When 52 American hostages were held in Iran for 444 days, President Reagan reported that finally they would be released and returned to freedom. In 1983, 241 soldiers who were part of a peacekeeping force in Lebanon, were killed in a truck bomb. In 1987, tragedy struck again when an Iraqi missile hit the U.S.S. Stark, killing 37 sailors that had been sent to the Persian Gulf to keep the area open during the Iran-Iraq war. By not cooperating with terrorists, he showed the world that the U.S. would not negotiate, but if need be, retaliate.President Ronald Reagan served two consecutive terms in office, in which he improved the nation’s social, business, and international agendas. Known as the “Great Communicator”, he went on television many times to ask the viewers for their support on various bills. Support for Reagan grew when he was wounded during an attempted assassination. When he ran for a second term in 1984, he asked voters if they were better off than they were with the previous president. Reagan was reelected at age 73, making him the oldest man ever voted into presidential office. He was well liked by the majority of the population at the end of his presidency, too.At the start of his presidency, Reagan had a clear economic, social, and foreign policy agenda, along with the courage to achieve these goals. Looking back on his years in office, he said, “I am the same man I was when I came to Washington. I believe in the same things I believed when I came to Washington, and I think those beliefs have been vindicated by the success of the policies to which we hold fast.” Reagan’s legacy changed the United States and shaped the nation in which we live today. Soon after his presidency began, he remarked, “What I’d really like to do is go down in history as the President who made Americans believe in themselves again.” President Ronald Reagan, yo...
