Directions: Read Each Question Carefully and Write Your Responses Using $\quad$

Directions: Read each question carefully and write your responses using complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable.
-"During his two terms in the White House (1981-89),Reagan presided over a widening gap between the rich and everyone else,declining wages and living standards for working families,an assault on labor unions as a vehicle to lift Americans into the middle class,a dramatic increase in poverty and homelessness,and the consolidation and deregulation of the financial industry that led to the current mortgage meltdown,foreclosure epidemic and lingering recession."
$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$ Peter Dreir,"Reagan's Real Legacy"
"It is not difficult to identify the principal initiatives for which Ronald Reagan will be remembered.After a decade of national defeatism and doubt,he strode into office in 1981-confident of America's ideals and promise,and of the ability of his countrymen to conquer their malaise.He instituted startling tax-rate reductions and other measures that have produced (his supporters argue)the longest peacetime economic expansion in the history of the United States.In foreign policy he initiated a massive rearmament program to contain Soviet imperialism and expounded America's democratic faith without shame.In doing so he broke,without fully dispelling,the debilitating grip of the "post-Vietnam syndrome" and the mentality of "blame America first." In the realm of social issues,he set out deliberately to curb the "imperial judiciary" and reorient a left-leaning Supreme Court."
$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$ George H.Nash,"How Great Was Ronald Reagan?"
Using the excerpts above,answer parts a,b,and c.
a)Briefly explain ONE major difference between Dreier's and Nash's interpretation of the legacy of President Ronald Reagan.
b)Briefly explain how ONE specific event,development,or circumstance in the period after 1980 that is not specifically mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Dreier's argument.
c)Briefly explain how ONE specific event,development,or circumstance in the period after 1980 that is not specifically mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Nash's argument.

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