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"Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" was a political slogan used frequently by former Governor Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential campaign. The phrase is derived from and is similiar to a line from a 1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt fireside chat.^[1]

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^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18329-2004Jun5.html

40th President of the United States (1981–1989)
33rd Governor of California (1967–1975)

Life and
politics

Presidency
(timeline)

Foreign policy	Reagan Doctrine Cold War 1st term 2nd term Soviet Union summits Geneva Reykjavík Washington INF Treaty Moscow Governors Island Constructive engagement Invasion of Grenada Iran–Contra affair Libya bombing Strategic Defense Initiative International trips "We begin bombing in five minutes" Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act Goldwater–Nichols Act Montreal Protocol Executive Order 12333 Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 Form I-9 H-2A visa H-2B visa American Homecoming Act Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement Israel–United States Free Trade Agreement Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act Exon–Florio Amendment
Domestic policy	Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 Office of National Drug Control Policy Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act Cannabis policy Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 Coastal Barrier Resources Act Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 Armed Career Criminal Act Sentencing Reform Act United States Sentencing Commission Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 Emergency Food Assistance and Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act Toxics Release Inventory Emergency Wetlands Resources Act Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation Act of 1988 Grace Commission Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Medical Waste Tracking Act Minerals Management Service National Appliance Energy Conservation Act National Fishing Enhancement Act of 1984 Nuclear Waste Policy Act Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act 1982 VRA Amendments Water Quality Act of 1987 Water Resources Development Act of 1986 Water Resources Development Act of 1988
Economic policy	Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 Agriculture Mediation Program Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 Expedited Funds Availability Act Extra-Long Staple Cotton Act of 1983 Food Security Act of 1985 Conservation Reserve Program Dairy Export Incentive Program Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act Interest and Dividend Tax Compliance Act of 1983 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waivers Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 Reagan tax cuts Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver Tax Reform Act of 1986 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit MACRS Secondary Mortgage Market Enhancement Act Surface Transportation Assistance Act Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine (1961)
"A Time for Choosing" (1964)
States' rights speech (1980)
Inaugural address
- 1981
- 1985
"Ash heap of history" (1982)
"Evil empire" (1983)
"Tear down this wall!" (1987)
Joint session of Congress (1981)
State of the Union Address
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988

An American Life
The Reagan Diaries

Gubernatorial	1966 1970
Presidential	1976 campaign primaries convention 1980 campaign "Let's make America great again" "There you go again" primaries running mate selection convention debates election 1984 campaign "Morning in America" "Bear in the woods" primaries convention debates election

Cultural
depictions

Bibliography
In music
- Let Them Eat Jellybeans! (1981)
U.S. Postage stamps
Rap Master Ronnie
Ed the Happy Clown (1983 comic series)
Spitting Image (TV series) (1984)
A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985 game)
The Dark Knight Returns (1986)
- film adaptation
Pizza Man (1991 film)
The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001 film)
Reagan's War (2002 book)
The Reagans (2003 film)
Reagan (2011 documentary)
The Butler (2013 film)
Killing Reagan (2015 book)
Killing Reagan (2016 film)
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020 game)
The Reagans (2020 miniseries)
Reagan (2024 film)
"What would Reagan do?"

Legacy

← Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush →

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