... being concerned with a whole lot of what was actually happening. Evidence suggests, however, that Reagan wasn't really disinterested in what was happening, just that he was more focused on the end results of political happenings than on the means of reaching those ends. Although Reagan did run in 1968, he lost the republican nomination. He ran again and failed to receive the republican nomination in 1976. Finally, the eighties would be his chance. On January 21, 1981, Reagan was sworn in as president. He was a large fan of supply-side economics, and was interested in the possibilities of "less government, less regulation, slashing personal and corporate tax rates, encouraging entrepreneurship and the acquisition of wealth..." (105). Reagan still wasn't quite what his aides and staff would have liked him to be. Some even felt sorry for him when he couldn't fill up the time allotted to him in the 1980 presidential ...

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