Ronald Reagan's Presidential Power: End Of The Cold War

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Presidential Power
Ronald Reagan served as America’s 40th president. Reagan managed to cut taxes, increase defense spending, negotiate a nuclear arms reduction agreement with the Soviets and is credited with helping to bring a quicker end to the Cold War. I think that president Reagan used his presidential powers properly in order to achieve what needed to be done.
Ronald Reagan was president as the Cold War was raging worse than it had ever before. Reagan used his executive power, Commander in Chief, to put up resistance against Mikhail Gorbachev and push his defensive strategy. Reagan did this by giving troop aid to the rebels battling Soviet-backed Marxists from Nicaragua all the way to Angola. This act greatly affected the ending of the