Unemployment rate
- During term
- 7.2% → 5.3%
−0.24 pts/yr - 4 years before
- −0.15 pts/yr
Republican · Jan 20, 1981 – Jan 20, 1989
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1891
substantive public laws signed · plus 582 naming or commemorative
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executive orders signed
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