So what did Reagan do wrong?

i'd say you got all the help you could ask for haha. I learned enough about Reagan to do a report for sure. definitely check out those Rothbard links that BMore provided too! check out anything Rothbard! especially the Ethics of Liberty!

and tried acting.

If you're writing a report for class, you must read the Rothbard critique BMore links to below. It was written soon after the Gipper's reign was over, before history had time to heal many wounds. And you won't find a more astute observer of the American political scene in the 20th century than Rothbard.

in very broad terms, I believe it is safe to say Reagan's main failure was to consider liberty, and whatever reduction of government he championed, as some sort of means to a higher end; predominantly faster economic growth, instead of placing it front and center as the only thing that really matters. Which is why he would wax and wane non interrupted about freedom, while championing policies requiring government intervention in peoples lives and finances.

Did not eliminate the DOE. Did not live up to conservative principles -

He could of repealed many executive orders and reduced spending but he was addicted to easy credit.

I think he was a closet socialist imo. He was an actor afterall. They thrive on fiction and pleasure seeking like most lawyers thus the concerns and plight of everyday Americans are not in their thoughts. Very much an Epicurean imo.

Like many politicians he did the opposite on what he ran on.

Maybe he was a better Governor than President. I do not know what the spending was like in Kalifornia in the 60's but I would bet it was beginning to rise considerably and revenue extractions along with spending.

misguided military adventures in Nicaragua and Lebanon, not to mention the Iran-Contra affair (selling arms to Iran to support terrorist activities in Nicaragua).

Pick up a copy of "A Foreign Policy of Peace" and read the good Doctor's speeches on the house floor during the Reagan years. That will fill in the details pretty well.

Reagan was 100% window dressing while the real act was going on behind the scenes. It took me a long time to realize it because he said all the right things.

enhanced the war on drugs.

established minimum sentences for drug users.

with Reagan is he bowed to the vaccine manufacturers' threat to stop supplying the U.S. with pertussis vaccine if they kept getting slapped with lawsuits from people whose kids suffered damages and deaths from that vaccine.

This led to legislation to ban private citizens from being able to sue vaccine manufacturers directly, and having to go through VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) instead. As a result, it's taxpayers like you and me who pay for proven vaccine damages instead of the vaccine manufacturers, who now have little incentive to develop safer vaccines.

That's what happens when you destroy the free market!

He stood by and watched and did nothing as a US Congressman Larry McDonald (D) and president of the JBS was assassinated by the Russians.

SCREW YOU REGAN!

"The Speech" is the only truly great thing he did. Everything else could fall into the category your requesting. Sadly, "The Speech" was not while he was president.

Make a deal to have Bush Sr. as his Vice President.

with members of the Council on Foreign Relation (CFR), the main US arm of the global elites who are pushing for one world government, the New World Order. They probably convinced him he had to watch his step and stay out of their way.

Despite talking up freedom prior to assuming the presidency in his very first act as president he revealed himself as a freedom-hater by extending draft registration.

His rhetoric was 100% libertarian. His actions were the reverse.

Federal takeover of education from the states (that's a big one for me - and I remember it)

Allowed corporations to be excused from *real* income tax increasing the burden on workers - it's when all the offshore stuff began

Increased the power of the executive branch and neutered Congress - especially in terms of budget.

The beginning of the American Military Empire using black ops and black money to depose elected executives and replacing them with puppet dictators

Increased the power of the EPA over the states

More than doubled the debt and increased the money supply several times over

Used Neo-con controlled religious leaders to "collectivise" the people using the born-again cults to create the mass Neo-con conversion - and started the anti-Muslim military crusades along with it

Now, a lot of this and more was because Bush Sr., Cheney, Rumsfeld, Armey, etc... who were the Chicago School power-players of Neoconservatives (Communists)took over the executive branch.