Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra Affair

In 1979, George decided he wanted to run as president for the Republican Party, he lost the position to Ronald Reagan. After Reagan won the nominee for the Republican Party he asked GEorge to be his vice president which George gladly accepted. Together George and Ronald was able to pull through and win the election against their Democratic opponents. As Vice President of Ronald Reagan, George was able to gain some experience in dealing with many problems. In 1986, one problem, the Iran-Contra Affair arose that almost ruined his political career forever. The administration was selling arms to Iran to help free hostages which violated United States Policy, They also used the money to buy weapons for the rebels there which was against the law.

When Reagan’s term came to an end, George ran for President from the Republican Party against Democrat Michael Dukakis in the election of 1988, George was able to totally dominate Dukakis in the electoral vote 79% to 21% and beat him in the popular vote 53.4% to 45.6%. During his presidency George faced many problems but he dealt with these problems carefully taking it one step at a time.

During his presidency, he dealt with problems from domestic affairs to foreign affairs. When George first began his journey, he founded the Points of Light Foundation to promote volunteerism, becoming the first piece of federal service legislation in years. In order to celebrate individualism and that act of coming together to work to improve the world, Bush then created the Daily Point of Light Award, to recognize the individuals who were making a difference in the country. George was able to hand out over a thousand awards to the

Next, he signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which compensated people who contracted cancer and other diseases as a result of exposure to atmospheric nuclear testing undertaken during the Cold War. His first foreign affair was the Cold War, which was a war between the Soviet Union and the United States, this would not be the toughest problem he would face. He was able to deal with this problem very smoothly, by creating a friendship with the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, declaring a United States Soviet Partnership at a Summit in July 1991 marking the end of the Cold War. Later, he signed START with the Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and declared a US-Russian strategic partnership with the Soviet leader following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. George was able to have control of the problem and get right to trying to fix the problem right away. This is a very smart solution of trying to fix a problem like this to avoid war and