Reagan Administrations - The Reagan Administration Legacy
The Reagan Administration Legacy
Even without the Iran-Contra scandal Reagan's image was tarnished before he left office in 1989. Former senior members of his government began publishing their memoirs in the latter days of his second term. David Stockman's The Triumph of Politics and Alexander Haig's Caveat had already drawn unflattering portraits of the president as a man who could not understand the operations of a government he was supposed to lead. Then Michael Deaver, Larry Speakes (former press secretary), and former White House chief of staff Donald Regan, whom Reagan had fired in the midst of the Iran-Contra scandal, added to the growing number of Reagan era memoirs that depicted the president in a less-than-flattering light. Reagan's age, the residual effects of the assassination attempt and subsequent surgery (in 1985) for cancer polyps, his hearing impairment and his failing memory, all caused concern during...
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