Talk:Scandals of the Ronald Reagan administration

message: This article is rather messy and disorganized in its current state. Any objections to adding a cleanup tag to it? -- Fearfulsymmetry 05:01, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: I've got it... Reagan Screw-Ups. That'll be the name. Its far more biased than the current "Reagan Scandals" page. What do these people want the page to be named? "Days that Reagan wasn't the all supreme being that we make him out to be"? Ridiculousness. I think we ought to have a scandals page for each president of the United States, and then correlate them all on to one massive page called "United States Presidential Scandals" MUCH better idea.
  Actually, there is such an article, it's called, Political scandals of the United States Richrakh ````
Listen, "guy who wants to mislead people about Ronald Reagan."  Reagan's actions were in direct defiance of Congress, which had earlier taken action specifically prohibiting further involvement.   Reagan did defy Congress, in violation of the constituion, and Reagan's administration was the most corrupt administartion ever.  You think that bias means ignorance, and it is you who clearly display your bias by continually ignoring the facts as pointed out by "smoking" guy. YOUR MARKING THE PAGE AS CONTROVERSIAL IS THE REAL LIE.  It may be controversial to career liars like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh who want to deify Reagan.  Why don't you simply verify the facts???  Their available for anyone who cares about the truth.  Reagan's actions were treasonous, and if he hadn't either been, or pretended to be, senile at the end of his term, he would have (and could have) been easily impeached.   P.S. not all conservatives are as stupid as Ann Coulter, who claims that Reagan "singlehandedly" won the Cold War.  The reason so many conservatives accept the non-fact that Reagan won the Cold War is because hacks like you continue to spew the nonsense.  It's truly a conservative thing, SEE: Death Panels and Socialism. Come on, open a book, take to a computer, actually read some of the indisputable, historical record.  Reagan was a lazy, ill informed, crook--and there are lots of other horrific things that he and his administration did that aren't in your so called "article."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.124.224.51 (talk) 22:30, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename? 

message: >resulting in the investigation, indictment, or conviction of over 138 administration officials
Can we break this up into different numbers for accuracy?  It seems misleading as is.  Presumably everyone who was indicted or convicted was first investigated, and everyone convicted was first indicted, but presumably not *everyone* who was investigated was indicted, so it's confusing.  Should read more like:
138 administration officials were investigated, and of those X were indicted and X were later convicted.
People (like me) interested in how many people were *indicted* under Reagan might be tempted to quote this as a total of 138 people actually indicted, and it's not clear if that's true.
May also be nice to see some numbers for how many plead guilty vs went to trial, etc.
Memophage (talk) 19:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction 

message: Can we please get rid of the George Carlin quote from his 1988 album What Am I Doing in New Jersey? It's no longer "timely", and since the second paragraph of this article is lifted almost verbatim from his performance, it's not encyclopedic, either. Tony Myers 18:31, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carlin quote 

message: I for one think this article could use a complete rewrite. 
*It does not follow the MOS when it comes to headings, paragraph format, photo captions, etc.
*It is mostly a bulleted list with section breaks thrown in
*It does not accuratley describe the scandals of the Reagan Administration
There weren't very many scandals, but they should be told in a clean format and follow Wikipedia's rules, something this article fails to do. Happyme22 01:45, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. This is next on our clean-up list, Hap. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 05:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Er, precisely what re you referring to? - Arcayne (cast a spell) 06:48, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Complete rewrite

message: It is obvious that deregulating the taxes caused the Savings & loan crisis, however, is that a scandal or just an economic blunder?  Reagan can take the blame for the crisis, however, deregulating is not a crime in itself.  Did anyone from the Reagan administration go to jail for this crisis or was charged with any illegal activities?  That would be a scandal. Cmguy777 (talk) 17:10, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it is not "obvious" that deregulation or taxes caused the crisis, the roots of the problem were in the high inflationary period of the late 70s and early 80s, exasperated by extremely high interest and mortgage rates. Those two factors killed a lot of the S&Ls (fewer people could afford to purchase homes or take out loans for cars, college, etc.), or at least put them on shaky ground even before Reagan came onto the scene. The S&L crisis is just that, a crisis and not a scandal. The reason it is sometimes referred to as a scandal is there were scandals within the crisis itself. A fine example is the Keating Five. Also there some banks that were caught defrauding the FDIC and FSLIC, but nothing too major.--FrankieG123 (talk) 01:37, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Savings & loan crisis ??? 

message: Surprised to see no mention of "Debategate".  I've added it. 24.102.247.69 (talk) 00:58, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Debategate

message: But two things struck me immediately:
Infoplease.com is not a particularly compelling citation.
And this is rife with construction and bias issues:  "Presidents Reagan was instrumental in turning Nicaragua into a Democratic society and giving the people liberty."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.83.129.14 (talk) 16:32, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  I only made it as far as Iran/Contra ... 

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message: Should that be added? The USA was funding and arming the Contras, providing them booklets directing them on how to commit assassination, and bombed oil facilities and mined the harbor - an act which saw it condemned for the 'unlawful use of force for political gain' in the International Court of Justice. The other actions surely violated the Neutrality Act and potentially murder and conspiracy laws. This were what prompted the Boland Amendment, which then led to Iran-Contra whereby a small portion of the arms sale profits were siphoned off to the Contra operation now run by the NSC instead of the CIA. LamontCranston (talk) 03:06, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contra war?