Badly? The hostage crsiis in Iran was resolved the Cold war started to wind down and there was an outbreak of freedom throughout the world.The Baby Boomers are officially those born between 1946 and 1964.Regan was born in 1911. At the time of his election the boomers were 17 to 36 years old. This would mean there were the most productive group in the nation.Why not blame the Me generation or the X or the Y generations. certainly they could have fixed things by now.