The approval rating of sixty-eight percent was held by Ronald Reagan.
By the time Reagan left the presidency in 1989, the American economy had seen a significant reduction of inflation, the unemployment rate had fallen, and the United States had entered its then-longest peacetime expansion
== Seeking the presidency (19751981) ===== 1976 Republican primaries ===A perceived insufficient conservative by many Republicans, president Gerald Ford was beset from a series of political and economic woes, and Reagan called for a revitalized party in 1975

