Donald Regan

Donald Thomas Regan December 21 1918 June 10 2003 was the 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1981 to 1985 and the White House Chief of Staff from 1985 to 1987 under Ronald Reagan In the Reagan administration he advocated Reaganomics and tax cuts as a means to create jobs and to stimulate production Earlier in his life he had studied at Harvard University before he served in the United States Marine Corps achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel In 1946 he started to work for Merrill Lynch He served as its chairman and CEO from 1971 to 1980