THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992
THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN IN 1980
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Heroin addiction
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Crack addiction
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AIDS
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -On September 17, 1985, President Reagan finally mentioned AIDS publicly when responding to a reporter’s question. He called it a “top priority” and defended his administration’s response and research funding.
Detailed explanation-2: -The President’s Commission on the HIV Epidemic was a commission formed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 to investigate the AIDS pandemic. It is also known as the Watkins Commission for James D. Watkins, its chairman when the commission issued its final report in 1988.
Detailed explanation-3: -The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), found its way to the United States between the 1970s and 1980s, but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi’s sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in homosexual men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981.
Detailed explanation-4: -From 1981 through 1990, 100, 777 deaths among persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were reported to CDC by local, state, and territorial health departments; almost one third (31, 196) of these deaths were reported during 1990.