The 40th President’s domestic and foreign policy were both conservative and robust. With his belief in “Trickle-down economics” and major tax cuts, Reagan met the challenges of the Soviet Union’s aggressions against the United States with strength and diplomacy through the Reagan Doctrine, which sought to end Communism’s stranglehold in Eastern Europe and around the world. Despite his failed social policies surrounding the AIDS crisis and environmental concerns, he left office in 1989 with a 68% percent approval rating. That rating rivaled both FDR and Bill Clinton who left with the same approval ratings.

Though Ronald Reagan holds a seat of honor in the pantheon of conservative presidents, his religiosity is less clear than that of others in that same field. President Reagan was a professed Christian, and congruently wielded the force of the newly minted Moral Majority under the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson to accomplish a conservative agenda among Evangelicals. It is well-documented that Nancy Reagan employed astrologists and psychics during her time in the White House. This would fly afoul of the conservative Evangelical image of the First Family,