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  Donald Regan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Donald Thomas Regan (December 21, 1918–June 10, 2003) was the 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury, from 1981 to 1985, and Chief of Staff from 1985 to 1987 in the Reagan administration, where he advocated supply-side economics and tax cuts to create jobs and stimulate production.
Regan was one of the original directors of the and was vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from 1973 to 1975.
Regan unexpectedly switched jobs with then White House Chief of Staff James Baker in 1985, a position he kept until 1987, when he was pressured to resign for his involvement with the Iran-Contra affair.
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 Donald Regan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Regan was one of the original directors of the Securities Investment Protection Corporation and was vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from 1973 to 1975.
Regan unexpectedly switched jobs with then White House Chief of Staff James Baker in 1985, a position he kept until 1987, when he was pressured to resign for his involvement with the Iran-Contra affair (he was also clashing with First Lady Nancy Reagan).
Regan was seen as the fall guy for the affair, and the tounge-in-cheek saying "Reagan had Regan" echoed throughout Washington.
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 washingtonpost.com: Donald Regan Dies; Treasury Secretary
Donald T. Regan, 84, a brash and innovative Wall Street executive who became Treasury secretary and chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan before being forced to resign during the Iran-contra scandal, died June 10 at a hospital in Williamsburg.
Donald Thomas Regan, whose father was a railroad policeman, was a native of Cambridge, Mass.
Regan was known for giving careful consideration to the most junior members of Congress and for a politically savvy sense of humor.
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 Donald Regan biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Regan was criticized for his prime-ministerial style and his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair.
Regan unexpectedly switched jobs with then White House Chief of Staff James Baker in 1985, a position he kept until 1987, when he was pressured to resign for his involvement with Iran-Contra.
As Chief of Staff, Regan was very involved in the day to day management of a lot of White House policy, which led Baker to give a stinging rebuke that Regan was becoming a "Prime Minister" inside an increasingly complex Imperial Presidency.
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 VDARE.com: 06/13/03 - In Memoriam Donald Regan
Regan was concerned that he might not get the team he wanted, because he had read press reports that some supply-siders had preferred a different candidate and were unhappy with his nomination.
Regan decided that if Reagan's second term was to be successful, he would have to become chief of staff.
Regan supported Reagan's economic policy, which brought the end of stagflation, and he encouraged the relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev, which brought the end of Soviet communism.
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 Donald T. Regan, former Treasury secretary dies
Regan, forced to resign from the administration in 1987, published a famous tell-all biography in 1988 which revealed that former first lady Nancy Reagan consulted frequently with an astrologer while her husband was president.
Regan's gruff Marine Corps manner had served him well on Wall Street, where he rose to head brokerage giant Merrill Lynch, but it failed to help him survive the political minefields of Washington, especially after he drew the ire of Mrs.
Regan, however, quickly ran into trouble as chief of staff, drawing complaints from the first lady for what she perceived as an imperious operating style.
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 The Honorable Donald T. Regan will exhibit Original Oil Paintings at the Wally Findlay Galleries, Chicago on 5 May 2001.
Regan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1918 and graduated from Harvard University in 1940 with a BA degree in English.
Regan also served as the sixty-sixth Secretary of the Treasury and was in the forefront of formulating and implementing the Reagan Administration's economic policy for four years.
Regan served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange, and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.
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 Regan, Donald Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Regan rose through the company to become its youngest president in 1968 and chief executive in 1973, transforming the firm into a publicly owned financial services company.
A long-time Republican, he was active in Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign and became (1981) his Treasury secretary and a strong advocate of supply-side economics, tax cuts, government cutbacks, and deregulation.
Regan resigned in 1987 and wrote For the Record (1988), in which he attacked Nancy Reagan; she shot back in My Turn (1989).
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 Regan, Donald Thomas on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A long-time Republican, he was active in Ronald Reagan 's presidential campaign and became (1981) his Treasury secretary and a strong advocate of supply-side economics, tax cuts, government cutbacks, and deregulation.
Donald T. Regan, Former Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc., Dies at 84.
Donald Regan: man the president is counting on.
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 U.S. Treasury - Biography of Secretary Donald T. Regan
Secretary Regan served as Chairman pro tempore of the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs and as the Administration's chief economic spokesman.
Regan is the author of A View from the Street, an analysis of the events on Wall Street during the crisis years of 1969 and 1970, published in 1972 by the New American Library.
Secretary Regan was a member of the Policy Committee of the Business Roundtable, a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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 In Re Oliver L. North
Regan is entitled to attorneys' fees under the Act if he satisfies section 593(f)(1), which allows the "subject of an investigation conducted by an independent counsel" to request reimbursement for "those reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by that individual during that investigation which would not have been incurred but for the requirements of [the Act]...
Regan argues that it is clear that IC Walsh focused on him as a subject of the investigation because the Final Report states that it limited its chapters on individuals "to those as to whom there was a possibility of indictment." Final Report at xvi.
Regan asserts that while IC Walsh assured him that he was not a subject, in reality Walsh was pursuing his theory that Regan was part of a November 1986 conspiracy to cover up the extent of President Reagan's knowledge of the arms transactions.
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 Wanniski.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He had not been on any of our wish lists for that critical post and we naturally assumed that he would be a drag on the plans to cut the income-tax rates from the top marginal rate of 70% across the board by roughly 30%.
Regan, we learned, immediately asked for all the speeches the Gipper had made on matters of public finance and markets, and then sat down and read them all.
BY DONALD T. The recent debate over President Bush's tax proposal had so many echoes of the Reagan era that I could almost recite the parts of the various players from memory.
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 Legal Problems - Iran/Contras:Donald T. Regan Part 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Regan's notes of the November 24, 1986, meeting, obtained early in 1992, confirmed and illuminated notes of the same meeting taken by Caspar Weinberger.
Regan already knew the true answer to the question that he asked, from his direct participation in the November 1985 briefing in Geneva that McFarlane gave the President about the impending HAWKs shipment.
According to Wallison, Regan told him and another Regan aide, Dennis Thomas, on November 24, 1986, that the diverted payments had been made in November 1985 for the HAWKs, and he asked Wallison whether that was unlawful.
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 Business Wire: Donald T. Regan, Former Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., Dies at ...
Regan's innovative leadership of Merrill Lynch was recognized by the board of editors of Fortune magazine with the Hall of Fame for Business Leadership Award in March 1981.
Donald Thomas Regan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 21 December 1918.
Regan devoted much of his time to industry-wide affairs as one of the original directors of the Securities Investment Protection Corporation and, from 1973 to 1975, as vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.
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 Error - Columbia Newsblaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Regan blamed former first lady Nancy Reagan for his abrupt ouster as the president's chief of staff in February 1987 and got even the next year in a famous tell-all memoir in which he revealed that Mrs.
Regan was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1918 to a Boston policeman who was among many fired the next year by Gov. Calvin Coolidge for refusing to replace striking policemen - an action that helped propel Coolidge onto the national stage and later the presidency.
Regan, who took pride in his outspoken style, wrote in his memoir that he was expelled from kindergarten after telling his teacher that she was a poor manager and recommending that she "reorganize the class along more sensible lines devised by myself."
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 Secretary of the Treasury - Donald T. Regan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Regan resigned in 1984 to become President Reagan's Chief of Staff.
His portrait of Donald T. Regan was painted in 1986 in Regan's White House office after he had left the Treasury Department.
The only request Regan made at the final sitting was that Abrams include presidential cufflinks, which Regan said were his trademark and he later presented Abrams with a pair.
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 Media Report - 22/11/01: Hunting for Boss
Donald McDonald: I think the lessons are that change is inevitable in this industry, as indeed as it is in this world, and that it is absolutely essential that the ABC be in a position and be equipped to respond to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
Donald McDonald: Well we are here at the end of 2001 still with an ABC that is vibrant, that is working for people all around the country.
Donald McDonald: I think it’s possible for an individual member of the Board to have a view that an organisation at a certain time might be better led by somebody from outside, and people in respect of many sorts of organisations, not just the ABC, could and do often have that point of view.
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 Regan, Donald Thomas --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In 1981 Donald Regan, chairman and chief executive officer of financial services giant Merrill Lynch and Company, was appointed secretary of the Treasury by President Ronald Reagan.
He won the 1960 Nobel prize in physics for his invention of the bubble chamber (in 1952), which traced the movement of high-energy atomic particles and was used to observe the behavior of subatomic particles.
Donald Johanson was born in Chicago on June 28, 1943.
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 Ex-Treasury Secretary Donald Regan dies at age 84 - Jun. 10, 2003
Regan held the post from 1981 to 1984, before switching jobs with White House Chief of Staff James Baker.
Donald Regan, who served Ronald Reagan as treasury secretary and chief of staff, died Tuesday.
Regan was born Dec. 21, 1918, in Cambridge, Mass.
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 Reagan aide Donald Regan, 84, dies - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Donald T. Regan, who gladdened conservatives' hearts as President Reagan's chief of staff, died of cancer yesterday at 84.
Regan came from Wall Street — where he had been chairman of the Merrill Lynch brokerage firm — to be Mr.
Regan that staunch conservative Pat Buchanan was brought into the Reagan White House as communications director.
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 The Spokesman-Review.com
WASHINGTON -- Donald T. Regan, who rose from an Irish working class background to serve as a groundbreaking chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch and later as Treasury secretary and controversial chief of staff for President Reagan, died Tuesday.
Regan's ouster was harsh -- he learned from that he was being replaced as White House chief of staff from another administration official who had seen the report on television.
Regan used his 1988 book, "For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington," to set a new "tell all" tone in White House memoirs -- and to try to have the last word.
www.spokesmanreview.com /allstories-news-story.asp?date=061103&ID=s1364989   (683 words)

  
 'Reaganomics' advocate, 84 - Jun. 11, 2003
Regan was treasury secretary in the Reagan administration from 1981 to 1985, then became White House chief of staff from 1985 to 1987, in the president's second term.
Regan was forced to resign from the White House in 1987 in the wake of the Iran-contra "arms for hostages" scandal.
Regan served in the US Marine Corps in World War II, fighting in Guadalcanal, New Georgia, the North Solomons, Guam and Okinawa, and reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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