When Reagan Was (much) Less Popular Than Carter

Steve Kornacki, Salon: Politics
Sun, 02/06/2011 - 9:01am

By 1992, three years after he left the White House, Ronald Reagan was anything but a beloved former president. As a painful recession gripped the country, the public came to see the Reagan years -- which featured a massive defense buildup, soaring deficits and even a stock market crash in 1987 -- as the source of their economic woes.

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