Reagan enjoyed signal accomplishments, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, but Iran-Contra stained his administration and deficits and budgets grew beyond imagination.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Reagan argued, persuasively, that almost all of our energy problems, which occupied so much of Carter's administration, simply resulted from price controls on oil, gasoline and natural gas.
From the forbes.com
Reagan, whose staunch opposition to communism around the world would lead to the collapse of the Soviet empire, found his administration embroiled in negotiations with the sponsors of Hezbollah.