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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 criticized for his prime-ministerial style and his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair.Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Regan earned his bachelor's degreeA bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course that generally lasts three or four years. Note that some postgraduate degrees are entitled Bachelor of. the University of Oxford Bachelor of Civil Law. Honours degrees In in EnglishThe English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the mil from Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. It was founded on September 8, 1636 by a vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest post-secondary s in 1940Events January-February January 5 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. January 6 World War II: Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the Poznan, Warthegau. January 12 World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. February 2 F and then joined the United States Marine CorpsThe United States Marine Corps USMC is the second-smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. The United States Coast Guard is the smallest. The Marine Corps is nonetheless la at the outset of World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough reaching the rank of lieutenant colonelIn the US Army, US Air Force and US Marine Corps, a lieutenant colonel is a commissioned officer superior to a major and inferior to a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is comparable to the rank of commander in the US Navy. The insignia for all four. He served in the Pacific theater and was involved in five major campaigns, including Guadalcanal and Okinawa. After the War, he joined Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in 1946 as an account executive trainee, working up through the ranks, eventually taking over as Merrill Lynch's chairman and CEO in 1971, the year the company went public. He held those titles until 1980.
Regan was one of the original directors of the Securities Investment Protection Corporation and, from 1973 to 1975, was vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.
President Ronald Reagan selected Regan in 1981 to serve as Treasury secretary, becoming a spokesman for supply-side economics (also called Reaganomics). He helped engineer tax reform, reduce income tax rates and ease the tax burden on corporations. 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.
Regan's book, For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington (BooksEnthsiast.com), exposes his disagreements with First Lady Nancy Reagan including claims that Nancy's personal astrologer, Joan Quigley , helped steer the President's speaking decisions.
Regan retired quietly in Virginia with Ann Buchanan Regan , his wife of over sixty years. Late in life, he spent nearly ten hours a day in his art studio painting landscapes, some of which sold for thousands of dollars and hang in museums. Regan had four children and nine grandchildren.
Regan died of cancer at the age of 84 in a hospital near his home in Williamsburg, Virginia.
