Greatest POTUS, Round 1: Jimmy Carter vs. Ronald Reagan
04-25-2012
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This is part of a contest for 2+2's greatest President of all time. Each President is matched up against his successor in a single elimination tournament.
You have until 29th April to vote. To vote, you must have registered before January 1st, 2012 and have at least 100 posts in Politics. You can change your vote via PM any time up until the deadline.
The top six highest margins in Round 1 get a bye, as do the two highest vote margins in Round 2.
Jimmy Carter vs. Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
You have until 29th April to vote. To vote, you must have registered before January 1st, 2012 and have at least 100 posts in Politics. You can change your vote via PM any time up until the deadline.
The top six highest margins in Round 1 get a bye, as do the two highest vote margins in Round 2.
Jimmy Carter vs. Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
During Carter's term as President, two new cabinet-level departments were created: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), and returned the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. Throughout his career, Carter strongly emphasized human rights. He took office during a period of international stagflation, which persisted throughout his term. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (at the end of 1979), 1980 Summer Olympics boycott by the United States of the Moscow Olympics and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Ronald Reagan
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
As president, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated reducing tax rates to spur economic growth, controlling the money supply to reduce inflation, deregulation of the economy, and reducing government spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, and ordered an invasion of Grenada. He was reelected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming that it was "Morning in America." His second term was primarily marked by foreign matters, such as the ending of the Cold War, the 1986 bombing of Libya, and the revelation of the Iran-Contra affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire,"[1] he supported anti-communist movements worldwide and spent his first term forgoing the strategy of détente by ordering a massive military buildup in an arms race with the USSR. Reagan negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, culminating in the INF Treaty and the decrease of both countries' nuclear arsenals.
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