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40th President of the United States
In office January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989
Vice President	George H. West. Bush
Preceded past	Jimmy Carter
Succeeded by	George H. W. Bush-league
33rd Governor of California
In office Jan 2, 1967 – January vi, 1975
Lieutenant	Robert Finch Edwin Reinecke John L. Harmer
Preceded past	Pat Dark-brown
Succeeded by	Jerry Dark-brown
9th and 13th President of the Screen Actors Order
In office November 16, 1959 – June 12, 1960
Preceded by	Howard Keel
Succeeded past	George Chandler
In office Nov 17, 1947 – Nov 9, 1952
Preceded by	Robert Montgomery
Succeeded past	Walter Pidgeon

Personal details
Born	Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-02-06)Feb 6, 1911 Tampico, Illinois, U.S.
Died	June 5, 2004(2004-06-05) (anile 93) Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Pneumonia acquired by Alzheimer'south affliction
Resting place	Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center 34°xv′32″N 118°49′14″W / 34.25899°North 118.82043°W / 34.25899; -118.82043
Political party	Republican
Other political affiliations	Autonomous (before 1962)
Spouse(s)	Jane Wyman (m.1940; div.1949) Nancy Davis (k.1952)
Relations	Neil Reagan (brother)
Children	With Wyman: Maureen, Christine, Michael With Davis: Patti, Ron
Parents	Jack Reagan Nelle Wilson Reagan
Alma mater	Eureka Higher (BA)
Profession	Actor pol sports commentator
Awards	Presidential Medal of Freedom Congressional Gold Medal See more
Signature
Military machine service
Allegiance	Usa
Branch/service	U.Due south. Army Air Forces
Years of service	1937–1945
Rank	Captain
Unit	18th AAF Base Unit

Ronald Wilson Reagan ( Feb 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American actor and politician. He was the 40th President of the The states from 1981 to 1989. He was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Reagan was the ninth and 13th President of the Screen Actors Club, from 1947 to 1952 and again from 1959 to 1960. Reagan was a movie, television and radio histrion before he began his career in politics.

Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois. Reagan had a successful career in Hollywood. He was in fifty-iii movies. He married extra Jane Wyman in 1940. The couple divorced in 1949. They had iii children. Reagan then married Nancy Davis in 1952. They had two children. Their wedlock lasted until Reagan's death in 2004.

Earlier winning his presidental election in 1980, Reagan ran for president ii times in 1968 and in 1976. At 73 years old when re-elected in 1984, he is the oldest person elected president of the United States. He is known as the "Smashing Communicator" because he was a good public speaker. Reagan was also known as the "Teflon president" considering any criticism or scandals confronting him never stuck or affected his popularity. Reagan yet remains 1 of the about popular presidents in American history because of his optimism for the country. Reagan was the showtime president of the The states to have been divorced.

Reagan was inaugurated in Jan 1981. As president, Reagan helped create a new political and economical idea. He created the supply-side economic policies. It was later called Reaganomics. Reagan's economical policy lowered tax rates. Information technology created an economic growth and lowered inflation. In his starting time term he also survived an assassination endeavor. Reagan also declared a War on Drugs. Reagan ordered an invasion of Grenada to end a Communist insurrection.

He was re-elected in a landslide victory in 1984. During his second term, Reagan worked on catastrophe the Common cold War. He also ordered the 1986 bombing of Libya. In 1987, the Reagan assistants faced a political scandal. It was the Iran–Contra affair. Reagan worked with Soviet Full general Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev during his second term. This led to the signing of the INF Treaty. It decreased nuclear weapons in the Us and the Soviet Union. Reagan left office in January 1989.

Reagan was originally a Democrat. In 1962 he changed to the Republican party. He is ranked loftier in presidential opinion polls.

Reagan died on June 5, 2004 at his Bel Air, Los Angeles home from pneumonia after a ten-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 93 years quondam.

Early on life
Acting career
- President of the Screen Actors Guild
- FBI informant
Entrance into politics
- A Time for Choosing
Governor of California, 1967-75
1976 presidential campaign
1980 presidential campaign
Presidency, 1981–89
- Commencement term, 1981–85
  - School prayer and moment of silence
  - Assassination try
  - Reaganomics
  - Air traffic controllers' strike
  - Visit to USS Constellation (CV-64)
  - Evil empire
  - Lebanese Ceremonious State of war (1983)
  - Korean Air Lines Flight 007
  - Functioning Urgent Fury (Grenada, 1983)
  - MLK Day (1983)
  - 1984 re-election entrada
- Second term, 1985-89
  - Common cold War and Soviet relations
  - The War on Drugs
  - Libya bombing
  - Islamic republic of iran-Contra thing
  - Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Human activity
  - Space Shuttle Challenger
  - Immigration Reform
  - Supreme Courtroom nominations
  - Berlin Wall
  - Civil Liberties Act of 1988
  - End of the Cold War
  - End of the Reagan presidency
Mail service-presidency, 1989-2004
- Public speaking
- Assault
- Health bug
- White House correspondent memoirs
- Concluding years
Death and funeral
Marriages
Honors
Culture portrayal
Legacy
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Early life

Reagan as a toddler, 1914

Reagan was built-in to Jack and Nelle Reagan on February 6, 1911 in a minor apartment building in Tampico, Illinois. He had an older brother named Neil. His father was a Roman Cosmic of Irish descent. His mother was a Protestant of English language and Scottish descent.

The family unit moved to different places in Illinois when Reagan was a child. They moved to Monmouth, Galesburg, and Chicago. His family finally settled in Dixon, Illinois. They lived in a small house in Dixon. His family was very poor. Reagan did not have much as a child. In high school, Reagan enjoyed interim. Reagan was athletic. He became a lifeguard and saved 77 lives.

Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932. He became a sports journalist at news radio station WHO. Reagan was also a broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. He was good at recreating baseball games. He fabricated them interesting. At this fourth dimension, the radio station would go just the scores. He was fired for not mentioning the evidence'southward sponsors. Reagan was shortly re-hired. Station executives could non find anyone as capable every bit Reagan to re-create baseball games.

Acting career

His first screen credit was the starring function in the 1937 film Love Is on the Air. He then starred in many movies such as Dark Victory with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. Earlier the moving-picture show Santa Fe Trail with Errol Flynn in 1940, he played the role of George "The Gipper" Gipp in the flick Knute Rockne, All American. From his role in the movie, he got the lifelong nickname "the Gipper". In 1941, experts voted him the 5th most popular star from the younger generation in Hollywood.

Reagan in the Cowboy from Brooklyn trailer, 1938

Reagan'due south favorite acting role was equally a double amputee in 1942's Kings Row. In the picture show, he says the line, "Where's the rest of me?" It was afterward used as the title of his 1965 autobiography. Many movie critics idea Kings Row to exist his best moving picture. Even though the movie was popular, it received bad reviews by New York Times critic Bosley Crowther.

Although Reagan called Kings Row the moving picture that "fabricated me a star", he was unable to keep up on his success. This was considering he was ordered to active duty with the U.S. Army at San Francisco two months after the movie's release.

During Earth War 2, Reagan was separated for four years from his movie career. He served in the First Film Unit of measurement. After the war, Reagan co-starred in such movies such as in, The Phonation of the Turtle, John Loves Mary, The Jerky Eye, Bedtime for Bonzo, Cattle Queen of Montana, Juke Girl, This Is the Ground forces, The Winning Team, Tennessee's Partner, and Hellcats of the Navy, in which he worked with his wife, Nancy. Reagan'southward last motion picture was a 1964 movie The Killers. Throughout his movie career, his female parent, Nelle, often answered much of his fan mail.

Reagan was also a spokesperson. He hosted the General Electric Theater since it was first shown in 1953. He was fired in 1962.

President of the Screen Actors Guild

Reagan was first elected to the board of directors of the Screen Actors Gild in 1941. Afterward World War 2, he rapidly returned to Screen Actors Guild. Reagan became the 3rd vice-president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1946.

Reagan was nominated in a special ballot to become president of the Screen Actors Guild. Reagan was elected in 1947. Reagan was re-elected president in 1959. He served only a year before resigning in 1960.

Reagan led the Screen Actors Guild through labor disputes, the Taft–Hartley Act and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings and the Hollywood blacklist era.

FBI informant

During the late 1940s, Reagan and his then-married woman Jane Wyman gave the FBI names of actors whom they believed were communists. Reagan fifty-fifty spoke at a special meeting at Congress on communism in Hollywood as well.

Despite not supporting giving out names of actors who were suspected communists. Reagan said:

"Do they await u.s. to constitute ourselves as a little FBI of our own and decide just who is a Commie and who isn't?"

Entrance into politics

Reagan speaking at a campaign ceremony for Goldwater, 1964

Reagan was very active in politics near the end of his acting career. Reagan used to be a Democrat. He strongly supported the New Bargain. He admired Franklin D. Roosevelt. Over time, Reagan became a conservative Republican. This was because he felt the federal authorities had also much ability and authority. He made a famous speech speaking out confronting socialized medicine (government run health care).

Reagan endorsed Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon for the Us presidency. The last fourth dimension Reagan supported a Democrat was when Helen Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate.

A Time for Choosing

During the 1964 presidential election, Reagan supported Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. He fabricated a famous oral communication called "A Time for Choosing" to support Goldwater. In the speech he spoke confronting government programs and high taxes. Even though Goldwater did not win the ballot, Reagan gained popularity from it. In his speech, Reagan said,

You lot and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We volition preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we volition judgement them to have the first step into a thousand years of darkness.

After Reagan gave this speech, many businesspeople thought that Reagan could run for Governor of California.

Governor of California, 1967-75

After giving a oral communication of Barry Goldwater'southward presidential campaign in 1964, he was persuaded to run for governor. Reagan ran as a Republican confronting the and then governor, Pat Chocolate-brown during the 1966 gubernatorial ballot. Reagan won the election with 3,742,913 (57.55%) of the vote while Brown won two,749,174 (42.27%) of the vote. Reagan was inaugurated on January ii, 1967.

Governor-elect Reagan with married woman Nancy celebrating his ballot to governor in Los Angeles in 1968

During his years equally Governor, Reagan stopped hiring government workers. He did this to tiresome the growth of California'southward workforce. Reagan as well approved tax increases to residue the country budget. Reagan worked with the Autonomous Party majority in the country legislature to help create a major reform of the welfare organisation in 1971. The reform helped give coin to the poor and increment the pay of the rich. During his term every bit governor, Reagan served as the President of the Republican Governors Clan from 1968 to 1969. In 1967, Reagan signed an human action that did not allow the public carrying loaded guns. In 1968, a petition to strength Reagan into a call back election failed.

Reagan ran briefly for president in 1968. He was non nominated by the Republican Party at the 1968 Republican National Convention as Richard Nixon was nominated.

On May 15, 1969, during the People's Park protests at the University of California, Berkeley, Reagan sent the California Highway Patrol and other officers to fight off the protests, in an event that became known as "Bloody Thursday". Reagan and then called out 2,200 land National Guard troops to occupy the city of Berkeley for two weeks in order to crack down on the protesters.

Reagan ran for re-election in the 1970 gubernatorial ballot against assemblyman Jesse M. Unruh. Reagan won 3,439,174 (52.83%) of the vote while Unruh won ii,938,607 (45.14%) of the vote.

During his final term as governor, he played a major role in California's educational organization. He raised student loans. This caused a massive protestation between Reagan and the college students. Reagan would shortly be criticized of his views of the educational system. In 2019, a 1971 audio recording of a conversation betwixt Reagan and President Nixon was released in which Reagan called Africans diplomats at the Un "monkeys".

Reagan left office on January 6, 1975 when Jerry Brown, Pat Brown's son, succeeded Reagan as governor.

1976 presidential campaign

In 1976, Reagan said he would run against President Gerald Ford to go the Republican Political party's candidate for president. Reagan soon became the conservative candidate with the support of organizations such every bit the American Conservative Marriage, which became key supporters of his political run, while Ford was considered a more than moderate Republican.

During his 1976 campaign, Reagan controversially used the pejorative phrase "welfare queen" to describe Linda Taylor who illegally misused her welfare benefits in 1974. He used Taylor and her criminals activities to defend his criticisms about social programs in the United States.

Reagan selected Usa Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania as his running mate.

Reagan won a few primaries early such every bit North Carolina, Texas and California, but shortly failed to win cardinal primaries such every bit New Hampshire, Florida, and his native Illinois.

During the 1976 GOP convention, Ford won the nomination with 1,187 delegates to Reagan'south 1,070. Ford would proceed to lose the 1976 presidential election to the Democratic nominee, Jimmy Carter.

Though he lost the nomination, Reagan got 307 write-in votes in New Hampshire, 388 votes as an Contained on Wyoming's ballot, and a single electoral vote from general ballot from the state of Washington.

1980 presidential entrada

In November 1979, Reagan announced his plans to run for president once more in the 1980 presidential election against incumbent President Jimmy Carter. His campaign slogan, "Make America Swell Once more", was heavily used in the 1980 election and in Reagan's 1984 re-election campaign. The slogan would exist used past Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump in their presidential campaigns. Reagan faced primary challenges from former Director George H. Westward. Bush-league, United States representatives John B. Anderson and Phil Crane, Usa senators Bob Dole, Howard Bakery, Larry Pressler and Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Governor Harold Stassen, erstwhile Treasury Secretary John Connally and to Republican executive Ben Fernandez. In May 1980, Reagan won enough delegates to win the Republican Party nomination. At the 1980 Republican National Convention, Reagan named Bush every bit his running mate.

Reagan's presidential entrada focused on lowering taxes to abound the economy, less government in people's lives, states' rights, and a strong national defense.

His relaxed and confident appearance during the televised Reagan-Carter contend on Oct 28, grew his popularity, and helped to expand his pb in the polls.

On November 4, Reagan won the election winning 44 states and 489 balloter votes, to Carter's 49 electoral votes from six states plus the Commune of Columbia. He won the popular vote by a larger margin, winning 50.vii% to Carter's 41.0%, with independent John B. Anderson winning vi.half dozen%.

Presidency, 1981–89

First term, 1981–85

The Reagans waving from the limousine during the Inaugural Parade, 1981

Reagan was first sworn in as president on January 20, 1981. In his countdown address (which Reagan himself wrote), he talked about the country's economic bug, arguing:

In this present crisis, government is non the solution to our problems; regime is the problem.

Schoolhouse prayer and moment of silence

In 1981, Reagan became the start president to suggest a constitutional subpoena on school prayer. In 1985, Reagan expressed his disappointment that the Supreme Court ruling withal bans a moment of silence for public schools, and said he had "an uphill battle." In 1987 Reagan renewed his telephone call for Congress to support voluntary prayer in schools and stop "the expulsion of God from America's classrooms." People who did not support this said it is not right for whatsoever regime forcefulness to be included in schools.

Assassination attempt

Master folio: Assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan

Reagan walking to his limousine moments before being shot by John Hinckley

Reagan was nearly killed in an assassination attempt that happened on Monday, March thirty, 1981. 69 days after condign President, he was leaving afterward a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. He was shot by John Hinckley. Hinckley shot six bullets.

White Firm Press Secretary James Brady was shot in the head. Brady later recovered, merely was paralyzed. Two other bullets shot officer Thomas Delahanty in the dorsum, likewise paralyzing him, and Secret Service amanuensis Timothy McCarthy in the breast. McCarthy took a bullet for Reagan. No one was killed during the event.

Reagan was taken to the George Washington University Hospital, which was nearest hospital from the hotel and White House. He suffered a punctured lung and a broken rib bone. He lost almost 3/4 of his blood. Reagan soon fabricated a fast recovery afterward doctors performed surgery. It was subsequently said that the bullet was one inch away from his center.

This made Reagan the only President of the United States to have been shot and survive subsequently.

Reaganomics

Reagan believed that the government should be minor, not large. This means that the authorities should not interfere in people'due south lives very much or interfere with what businesses do. He believed in supply-side economic science, which was likewise chosen Reaganomics and Voodoo economics (by people who didn't like information technology) during his term. He lowered everybody'southward income taxes by 25% and cutting spending in many government departments.

He also lowered aggrandizement from fourteen% to iv% and he vetoed 78 bills. Reagan's economic program resulted in a bad economy during the year 1982, but the economy turned around in 1983. The economy soon recovered. Reagan chosen it "Morning time in America". During his presidency the United States declared a "War on Drugs".

Air traffic controllers' strike

In the summer of 1981, the union of federal air traffic controllers went on strike. They broke a federal law that does non allow government unions from striking. Reagan said that if the air traffic controllers "practice not written report for work inside 48 hours, they accept forfeited their jobs and will be terminated". They did not render and on August 5, Reagan fired 11,359 hit air traffic controllers who had ignored his order, and used supervisors and military controllers to handle the nation's commercial air traffic until new controllers could be hired and trained.

Visit to USS Constellation (CV-64)

On August xx, 1981, Reagan was the honorable guest of Captain Dennis Brooks, commanding officer of the USS Constellation (CV-64). President Reagan arrived on the USS Constellation (CV-64) by helicopter. He spoke to the send's coiffure, ate lunch with them and watched a United states Navy tactical brandish at sea.

President Reagan so re-enlisted some US Navy personnel. He then was introduced to Special Amanuensis Craig Goodwin of the Naval Investigative Service (NIS). He was the Special Amanuensis who was assigned aboard the USS Constellation (CV-64). Special Agent Goodwin was later awarded i of the highest civilian medals for his intelligence piece of work, the Meritorious Civilian Service Medal.

Evil empire

Reagan'due south "Evil empire" speech was delivered to the National Clan of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida on March eight, 1983. It is his first recorded use of the phrase. Speaking virtually the nuclear arms race he said that the Soviet Spousal relationship as evil.

Lebanese Civil War (1983)

In 1983, Reagan sent forces to Lebanese republic to stop the threat of the Lebanese Civil War. On October 23, 1983, a group of American forces in Beirut were attacked. The Beirut barracks bombing killed 241 American servicemen and wounded more than 60 others by a suicide truck bomber. Reagan withdrew all the Marines from Lebanon.

Korean Air Lines Flight 007

In September 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by the Soviet Union. It killed one politico and many more Americans. Reagan was angry at the Soviets. Reagan addressed the nation. Every bit a result, Reagan proposed that the American military'due south GPS would be allowed for civilian use.

Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada, 1983)

On October 25, 1983, Reagan ordered U.S. forces to invade Grenada, code named Operation Urgent Fury. Reagan said that there was a "regional threat posed by a Soviet-Cuban armed services build-up in the Caribbean area" in Grenada.

Functioning Urgent Fury was the first major armed services operation washed past U.S. forces since the Vietnam War. Some days of fighting started, simply it resulted in a U.Due south. victory. In mid-December, U.S. forces withdrew from Grenada after a new form of government was created there.

MLK Twenty-four hours (1983)

Reagan originally did not support making Martin Luther Rex Jr.'due south birthday a national vacation, because of cost concerns. But on November ii, 1983, Reagan signed a beak to create a federal holiday honoring Male monarch. The bill had passed the Senate by a count of 78 to 22 and the House of Representatives by 338 to ninety. The holiday was observed for the start time on January 20, 1986. It is observed on the third Mon of Jan.

1984 re-election campaign

Reagan was once over again nominated for president at the 1984 Republican National Convention. His Democratic opponent, was former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota.

During the get-go presidential argue, many said Reagan lost the debate and at that place were rumors about Reagan'south wellness citing his confusion on stage. Many idea Reagan was showing the early on stages of Alzheimer's illness. In the 2nd contend, Reagan improved his functioning and when asked about questions of his historic period, he said:

I will non make age an upshot of this entrada. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Reagan's statement fabricated the entire audience laugh including from moderators and Mondale himself. Reagan also repeated his 1980 fence phrase: "At that place y'all become again".

Reagan was re-elected in 1984 in a landslide victory. Reagan won 49 out of the fifty states. He carried more electoral votes than any other president in American history.

Second term, 1985-89

Reagan being inaugurated every bit president at the White House, January 1985

Reagan was sworn in as president once more on January 20, 1985 at the White House this fourth dimension due to cold weather. In the coming weeks, he changed his staff by moving White House Chief of Staff James Baker to Secretary of the Treasury and naming Treasury Secretary Donald Regan to Chief of Staff.

Common cold War and Soviet relations

Reagan became friends with the Prime Minister of the Great britain Margaret Thatcher. Both of them held meetings about the Soviet Union's threat and how to end the Common cold State of war. Reagan became the start American president to ever address the British Parliament.

In foreign policy, Reagan ended detente (the policy of being friendly to the Soviet Union) by ordering the largest peacetime war machine buildup in American history. The U.Southward. government had to infringe a lot of money to pay for information technology. He had many new weapons built. Soon, the U.S. began to enquiry on a missile defence force organisation which would destroy missiles. Information technology was to prevent a nuclear state of war from happening. The program was called Strategic Defense Initiative. It was nicked named "Star Wars".

He directed money to anti-communist movements all over the world that wanted to overthrow their communist authorities. He ordered multiple war machine operations including the invasion of Grenada and the Libya bombing.

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the new leader of the Soviet Union (which was in bad shape and soon to collapse). Reagan had many talks with him. Their first coming together together was at the Reykjavík Summit in Iceland. They became good friends.

The State of war on Drugs

Reagan announced a State of war on Drugs in 1982, because of concerns about the increasing number of people using crack. Even though Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs during the 1970s, Reagan used more militant policies.

In 1986, Reagan signed a drug enforcement bill that budgeted $1.seven billion to fund the State of war on Drugs. Information technology created a mandatory minimum penalisation for drug offenses. The bill was criticized for created racial inequalities and mass imprisonment of African-Americans. Equally a result, First Lady Nancy Reagan created her "Just Say No" campaign to promote anti-drug usage to children.

Libya bombing

Reagan meeting with members of the United States Congress about plans to attack Libya after the bombings, Apr 1986

During the Reagan presidency, relations betwixt Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya and the United States were mixed. In early on April 1986, relations were escalated when a bomb exploded in a Berlin discothèque. It resulted in the injury of 63 American military personnel and death of one serviceman. In the tardily evening of April 15, 1986, the United States launched many attacks in Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya.

The United kingdom Prime number Minister Margaret Thatcher allowed the U.S. Air Force to utilise Britain's air bases to launch the assault, only if that the United kingdom was supporting America's right to self-defence force supported by the Un. The attack was done to cease Gaddafi's "ability to export terrorism", offering him "incentives and reasons to alter his criminal behavior". The president addressed the nation from the Oval Function after the attacks started, he said

When our citizens are attacked or abused anywhere in the earth on the direct orders of hostile regimes, we will respond so long every bit I'm in this function.

Many countries and the United Nations did not like Reagan's decision to bomb Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya. The United Nations said that Reagan violated "the Charter of the Un and of international constabulary".

Iran-Contra thing

Reagan'due south reputation was desperately injure by the political scandal Iran-Contra Affair. The authorities illegally sold weapons to Islamic republic of iran. It later on used the profits to support a Nicaraguan terrorist group called the Contras. Reagan told the American people he didn't know annihilation about the scandal. Reagan funded the Contras to fight off the Communist regime of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, but when it became as well expensive, Congress made it illegal to pay the Contras. Every bit a result, the scandal at the center of the thing and the cover upwards was using illegal profits to interruption the constabulary a second fourth dimension past supporting terrorists.

His U.s.a. National Security Advisor John Poindexter was charged with multiple felonies and later resigned. Reagan subsequently nominated former Ambassador Frank Carlucci to replace Poindexter. His Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger was thought to exist guilty, merely resigned before a trial could begin. Reagan later nominated Carlucci to serve as Defense force Secretary for the remainder of his term. Oliver N, a member of the United states of america National Security Quango, resigned and was indicted for his interest in the affair. In February 1987, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan also resigned considering of an ongoing feud between Regan and First Lady Reagan about his handling of the affair.

Soon, he told the American people that information technology was his error. After Reagan told the truth, he became more popular. In his amends, Reagan said,

Let's first with the function that is the most controversial. A few months ago I told the American people I did not merchandise arms for hostages. My centre and my all-time intentions nevertheless tell me that'due south true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

In the cease, fourteen assistants officials were indicted and eleven convictions resulted, some of which were vacated on entreatment. The residual of those indicted or convicted were all pardoned by President George H. W. Bush, who had been Vice President at the time of the affair.

Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Deed

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In the 1980s, apartheid in South Africa was becoming more tearing and a global event. The Democrats in the Senate tried to pass the Anti-Apartheid Deed in September 1985, but could not overcome a Republican filibuster. Reagan saw information technology every bit an human action to lower his authority to program foreign policy. He created own set of sanctions, just Democrats saw them to be "watered down and ineffective".

The nib was re-introduced in 1986 and brought up for a vote despite Republican efforts to block it to requite Reagan's sanctions time to work. Information technology passed the House with Reagan publicly against it. Later the Senate approved of the bill with a 84-14 vote.

On September 26, 1986, Reagan vetoed the bill maxim that it would crusade an "economic state of war". Republican Senator Richard Lugar led the Senate of override Reagan'southward veto. The veto was contrary past Congress (by the Senate 78 to 21, the Business firm by 313 to 83) on October 2. The veto override was the first one on a presidential foreign policy veto in the 20th century.

In response to the veto override, Reagan said:

I believe, are non the all-time course of action; they hurt the very people they are intended to assistance. My hope is that these punitive sanctions do non lead to more than violence and more repression. Our administration volition, nonetheless, implement the law.

Space Shuttle Challenger

The Reagans at a memorial service for the Challenger crew, 1986

In 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded killing anybody on lath. The entire state was shocked. Reagan postponed his 1986 State of the Union Accost every bit a consequence of the tragedy. It was the start time that a President of the United states postponed a State of the Wedlock Address. Afterwards, Reagan addressed the nation. Reagan famously said,

We volition never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved bye and 'slipped the bearish bonds of Earth' to 'touch on the face of God'.

Clearing Reform

In Nov 1986, Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Human activity. It helped some immigrants to get jobs and become legal citizens. In that same year, the Statue of Liberty was just re-opened subsequently being renovated. Reagan was at the opening anniversary when he said,

The legalization provisions in this act will go far to meliorate the lives of a form of individuals who at present must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a gratis and open society. Very before long many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they cull, they may become Americans.

Supreme Courtroom nominations

During his 1980 campaign, Reagan promised that, if elected, he would nominate the kickoff female person Supreme Courtroom Associate Justice. On July seven, 1981, he nominated Sandra Mean solar day O'Connor to supervene upon the retiring Justice Potter Stewart. Reagan said of O'Connor:

[O'Connor] is truly a person for all qualities, having those unique qualities of patience, fairness, intelligent, and devotion to the public good. I commend her to you, and I urge the Senate's swift bipartisan confirmation so that as soon as possible she may accept her seat on the Courtroom and her place in history.

O'Connor was confirmed by the United States Senate with a vote of 99–0.

In his second term in 1986, Reagan nominated William Rehnquist to replace Warren E. Burger as Chief Justice. He named Antonin Scalia to fill the empty seat left past Rehnquist.

After Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. announced his retirement in June 1987, Reagan nominated conservative jurist Robert Bork to replace him in 1987. Senator Ted Kennedy was strongly confronting Bork. Kennedy accused Bork of not beingness potent on states', civil or women's rights.

Bork'southward nomination was rejected past the United States Senate with a vote of 58–42. Reagan then nominated Douglas H. Ginsburg, but Ginsburg withdrew his name from consideration after information technology was revealed he used cannabis. Reagan afterwards nominated Anthony Kennedy to replace Powell, Jr. and was confirmed with a vote of 97–0.

Berlin Wall

In 1987, Reagan travelled to Berlin to requite a speech at the Berlin Wall. That is where he gave one of his greatest speeches of his presidency. Referring to the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Wall he said,

We welcome modify and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty tin can but strengthen the crusade of earth peace. At that place is ane sign the Soviets tin can make that would exist unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. Full general Secretary Gorbachev, if yous seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Matrimony and eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open up this gate. Mr. Gorbachev...Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Civil Liberties Deed of 1988

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In January 1987, U.Due south. Representative Tom Foley introduced the Ceremonious Liberties Act of 1988 to Congress as a way to give reparation to Japanese-Americans who were interned by the United States during Earth War Ii. Information technology passed the House in September 1987 and was sent to the Senate were information technology was passed in April 1988.

Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Human action into law on August 10, 1988 granting USD $20,000 with payments beginning in 1990. A total of 82,219 Japanese-Americans received checks.

End of the Cold War

During his term as president, Reagan saw the change in the management of the Soviet leadership with Mikhail Gorbachev. Months later his Berlin Wall oral communication, Gorbachev announced his plans to work with Reagan for a large arms agreements. Reagan and Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty which banned nuclear weapons existence launched between the United states of america and the Soviet Union.

When Reagan visited Moscow for the quaternary summit in 1988, he was seen as a celebrity by the Soviets. A journalist asked the president if he nonetheless considered the Soviet Spousal relationship the evil empire. "No", he replied, "I was talking nigh another time, some other era". In November 1989, ten months after Reagan left function, the Berlin Wall was torn downward, the Cold War was officially alleged over at the Malta Summit on December 3, 1989, and 2 years afterward, the Soviet Union complanate.

End of the Reagan presidency

Reagan left office with high rankings on January twenty, 1989 when his Vice President George H. Westward. Bush became president. Reagan and his wife, Nancy, soon returned dwelling in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. In the years after he left office, Reagan's time in function was seen as 1 of the best and is compared to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.

Post-presidency, 1989-2004

Public speaking

After leaving function, Reagan and his wife Nancy lived in Bel Air, Los Angeles. They also visited their ranch, Rancho del Cielo. Reagan gave a speech communication at the 1992 Republican National Convention giving his back up for Bush's re-election campaign in the 1992 presidential election.

In Nov 1991, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was dedicated and opened to the public in Simi Valley, California.

In June 1989, Reagan was honored with Honorary Knighthood and received the Lodge of the Bath presented by Queen Elizabeth II. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993 by President George H. West. Bush. He was the first sometime living president to receive the honour. Soon afterwards the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation created the Ronald Reagan Freedom Honor for people who made a big change for freedom.

In 1990, Reagan wrote an autobiography titled, An American Life.

Fifty-fifty afterward when he left office, Reagan had a close friendship with both Thatcher and Gorbachev. They would often visit him at his habitation.

In May 1994, Reagan, along with former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, wrote to the U.S. Business firm of Representatives in support of banning "semi-automated assail guns."

Assail

On Apr 13, 1992, Reagan was assaulted by an anti-nuclear protester during a speech while accepting an award from the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas. The protester was Richard Paul Springer. He smashed a ii-foot-loftier (lx cm) xxx-pound (xiii.5 kg) crystal statue of an eagle that the broadcasters had given to Reagan. Pieces of drinking glass hit Reagan, but he was not injured.

Springer was the founder of an anti-nuclear grouping chosen the 100th Monkey. Following his abort on assault charges, a Hole-and-corner Service spokesman did non say how Springer got past the agents. After, Springer pled guilty to the federal charge of interfering with the Undercover Service, but other felony charges of assault and fighting against officers were dropped.

Health issues

Early in his presidency, Reagan started wearing a hearing aid, start in his correct ear and afterwards in his left every bit well. In 1985, he had colon cancer and peel cancer removed at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1987, Reagan had surgery to remove polyp of the nose. Likewise in that year, Reagan went into surgery for an enlarged prostate.

In 1994, Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

On November five, 1994, Reagan wrote a public letter of the alphabet about having Alzheimer'due south disease, writing:

I accept recently been told that I am 1 of the millions of Americans who will exist affected with Alzheimer's Illness... At the moment I experience just fine. I intend to live the residue of the years God gives me on this globe doing the things I have e'er done... I now begin the journey that volition atomic number 82 me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there volition e'er be a bright dawn ahead. Give thanks you, my friends. May God always bless you.

Afterwards announcing his disease, many people sent supporting letters to his California home. There was as well an stance based on unfinished evidence that Reagan had showed symptoms of mental decline while still in part.

In 1995, the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Plant was dedicated in Chicago, Illinois. It is an institution that can help people with Alzheimer'due south and Parkinson'due south illness.

Reagan cruel at his Bel Air home on January 13, 2001. He broke his hip. The fracture was repaired the next day. Reagan, 89 years old, returned home afterwards that week, but he then had to do difficult physical therapy at home.

White House contributor memoirs

In her memoirs, former CBS White House contributor Lesley Stahl remembers nearly her final meeting with the president in 1986,

Reagan didn't seem to know who I was. ... Oh, my, he's gonzo, I thought. I have to get out on the lawn tonight and tell my countrymen that the president of the United States is a doddering space cadet.

But then, at the end, he regained his alertness. As she described information technology,

I had come that close to reporting that Reagan was senile.

Final years

As the years went on, the Alzheimer's disease slowly destroyed Reagan'due south mental capacity. He was only able to recognize a few people, including his wife, Nancy. He remained active during his terminal years. He took walks through parks near his home and on beaches, played golf regularly, and until 1999 he oftentimes went to his office in nearby Century City.

On February vi, 2001, Reagan reached the age of 90, becoming the third former president to practice and so (the other two being John Adams and Herbert Hoover, with Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter later reaching ninety).

Reagan'south public appearances became much less frequent with the progression of the disease. His family unit decided that he would alive in placidity semi-isolation with his wife Nancy. Nancy Reagan told CNN'south Larry King in 2001 that very few visitors were allowed to run into her hubby because she felt that "Ronnie would want people to remember him as he was." In that same year, Reagan'due south daughter, Maureen Reagan, died from melanoma at the historic period of threescore.

The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) was finished in 2001. A ceremony was held in March 2001. Reagan'southward wife, Nancy pb the ceremony. She christened the send. Reagan could not go considering he was very ill.

Following her married man's diagnosis and death, Nancy became a stem-cell inquiry abet. She urged Congress and President George West. Bush to support federal funding for embryonic stem jail cell enquiry. President Bush opposed the thought. In 2009, she praised President Barack Obama for lifting restrictions on such research. Mrs. Reagan believed that information technology could atomic number 82 to a cure for Alzheimer'south. Nancy died on March 6, 2016 at the age of 94.

Death and funeral

On June v, 2004, Reagan died at the age of 93 of pneumonia, caused past Alzheimer's illness, in his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. A brusque fourth dimension afterward his death, Nancy Reagan released a statement saying, "My family and I would like the world to know that President Ronald Reagan has died subsequently x years of Alzheimer's disease at 93 years of age. Nosotros appreciate everyone's prayers."

Reagan was granted a country funeral. Reagan's state funeral was the outset in the Us since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973. Information technology was held at the Washington National Cathedral on June 11 and presided by former Missouri United states of america senator John Danforth. President George W. Bush and onetime presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush-league, and Nib Clinton went to the funeral. First Lady Laura Bush and former showtime ladies Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, and Barbara Bush likewise went.

Former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson did non become to the funeral because of poor wellness. Reverend Billy Graham, who was Reagan'due south first pick to lead the funeral, could not go because he was recovering from surgery. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor as well went to the funeral and delivered a passage from the Bible. The funeral was led by Reagan's close friend and pastor Michael Wenning.

Strange leaders likewise went to Reagan'south funeral, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prime Minister of United Kingdom Tony Blair, German language Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Italian Prime Government minister Silvio Berlusconi and acting presidents Hamid Karzai of Transitional islamic state of afghanistan and Ghazi al-Yawer of Iraq. One-time Prime Minister of United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and both quondam President George H. W. Bush-league and President George W. Bush gave eulogies.

Reagan was buried subsequently that solar day in an underground vault at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. His tomb reads,

I know in my center that man is expert. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Marriages

Reagan met Jane Wyman while filming Brother Rat in 1938. He asked Wyman to marry him at the Chicago Theatre. They were married on January 20, 1940 in Glendale, California. They had ii children: Michael (adopted) and Maureen Reagan. They had a third child, Christine Reagan, but she was stillborn. With Reagan's growing political career and the decease of their child, Wyman filled for divorce in 1948. The divorce was last in 1949.

In 1949, months after divorcing Wyman, Reagan met Nancy Davis. Davis was an actress who was accidentally listed as a communist and asked Reagan to help. After Reagan helped Davis, the two began dating. Three years later, Reagan asked Davis to marry him in Beverly Hills, California. They were married on March four, 1952 in Hollywood, California. Together, they had two children: Ron and Patti Reagan.

Wyman died of natural causes on September 10, 2010. She was aged 90. Nancy outlived her married man past xi years. She died on March 6, 2016 of heart failure. She was aged 94.

Honors

In 2000, Ronald and Nancy Reagan received the Congressional Gold Medal in "recognition for their service to their nation".

In August 2004, a tribute to Reagan was shown at the 2004 Republican National Convention presented past his son, Michael Reagan.

In June 2007, Reagan received the Order of the White Eagle from Poland's president, Lech Kaczyński, for Reagan'south piece of work to cease communism in Poland. Nancy Reagan travelled to Warsaw to accept the award for her husband.

On June 3, 2009, a statue of Reagan was added in the United States Capitol rotunda. The statue represents the country of California in the National Bronze Hall Drove. Following Reagan's death, both major American political parties agreed to identify a statue of Reagan instead of that of Thomas Starr Rex.

Also in June 2009, President Obama signed the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act into law. It created a commission to plan activities to mark the upcoming centenary of Reagan's 100 birthday.

On July 4, 2011, a statue of Reagan was presented in London. It is outside of the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square. The ceremony was supposed to be attended by Reagan's wife Nancy, but she did not nourish. Old Secretarial assistant of Country Condoleezza Rice took her place and read a argument from her. British Prime Minister during Reagan'south presidency, Baroness Thatcher, was also unable to attend due to poor wellness.

A statue of Reagan was presented in November 2011 in Warsaw, Poland. President of Poland Lech Wałęsa was at that place.

In 2011, Reagan was added to the National Radio Hall of Fame.

Since 2011, February six has been known every bit Ronald Reagan Day in 21 states across the Us in honor of his birthday.

In 2016, Ronald and Nancy Reagan were honored in the Presidential $ane Coin Programme in Baronial 2016. He was the terminal president honored in the program.

In August 2017, Secretarial assistant of Labor Alexander Acosta honored Reagan at the Labor Hall of Award as the 2017 edition to the monument.

Culture portrayal

In the 1991 crime/thriller movie Point Break, a confront-mask of Reagan is worn by the leader (Patrick Swayze) of the "Ex-Presidents", gang of robbers who wear face up-masks of former Presidents during banking company robberies.

In the 2000 psychological horror movie American Psycho, Reagan was discussed towards the end of the moving-picture show equally to whether he is a psychopath or an innocent quondam man in regards to the Iran-Contra matter.

In 2001, Richard Crenna played Reagan in the Oliver Stone goggle box movie The Mean solar day Reagan Was Shot. In 2007, the edited version of his diary was published entitled The Reagan Diaries. It became the New York Times Best Seller.

Voice actor Hank Azaria voiced Reagan three times (1993, 1994, and 2012) in The Simpsons. Harry Shearer said that Simpsons grapheme Mr. Burns is inspired by Reagan. Seth MacFarlane voiced Reagan in American Dad! and on Family Guy for special episodes.

During the history of Saturday Night Alive, Reagan has been played by Phil Hartman, Randy Quaid and Robin Williams. In a 2010 brusk comedy video, Presidential Reunion, actor Jim Carrey played the spirit of Reagan trying to speak to Barack Obama virtually banking company companies and the media.

In 2014, Reagan was played by British histrion Alan Rickman in Lee Daniels' The Butler.

In 2015, Pecker O'Reilly published Killing Reagan, the fifth book of his Killing serial. Information technology covers the assassination endeavour on Reagan in March 1981. A year later, National Geographic Society announced they were making a telly movie based on the book. Killing Reagan was premiered on National Geographic on October sixteen, 2016, with histrion Tim Matheson playing Reagan. In late 2015, actor Bruce Campbell played Reagan in the second season of Fox'south criminal suspense drama series Fargo.

In March 2018, it was confirmed that histrion Dennis Quaid would play Reagan in an upcoming picture, titled Reagan, which volition be based on Reagan'south life. David Henrie will play a younger Reagan in the movie.

In October 2018, the Reagan library publicly launched three Reagan holographs: 1 where Reagan is in the Oval Office, one where he is in a railroad train during his 1984 campaign and i at his Rancho del Cielo.

Old footage of Reagan and his likeness was used for the 2020 first-person shooter video game Phone call of Duty: Blackness Ops Common cold State of war.

Legacy

Reagan, by public stance, is one of the most popular American presidents. His legacy is strongly admired amid many conservatives and Republicans. Those who exercise admire Reagan are sometimes called Reagan coalitionists.

According to United states of america Today, "Reagan transformed the American presidency in ways that but a few have been able to." His role in the Cold War fabricated his paradigm more popular as a different kind of leader as both Reagan and Gorbachev wanted to finish nuclear tensions and the state of war.

Reagan ranked third of postal service–World State of war II presidents in a 2007 Rasmussen Reports poll, fifth in an ABC 2000 poll, 9th in another 2007 Rasmussen poll, and eighth in a late 2008 poll by British newspaper The Times. In 2011, British historians released a survey to charge per unit American presidents. This poll of British experts in American history and politics said that Reagan is the eighth greatest American president.

Reagan was the oldest president up to that fourth dimension and was supported by young voters, who began to support the Republican party every bit a result.

Reagan is even admired by people of the opposite party, the Autonomous Party. Democrats who back up Reagan are called Reagan Democrats. His presidency is sometimes called the Reagan Era because of the changes it brought during Reagan'southward fourth dimension as president. In his home country of California, Reagan is seen as a hero. Reagan is known for his witty charm and his warm optimism.

The legacy of his economical policies is still divided betwixt people who believe that the government should be smaller and those who believe the authorities should take a more active function in regulating the economic system. While some of his foreign policies were controversial, many thank Reagan for peacefully ending the Cold War.

Listing of things named after Ronald Reagan
Make America Groovy Once again
Reagan Era
Reaganomics
The Eleventh Commandment
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
What would Reagan do?

Images for kids

The Bad Human (1941)
Invitee stars for the premiere of The Dick Powell Evidence. Reagan stands behind, at the far left of the photograph
Ronald and Nancy Reagan aboard a boat in California, 1964
Ronald and Nancy Reagan celebrate his gubernatorial victory at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
Addressing Congress on the Program for Economical Recovery, Apr 28, 1981 (a few weeks later on surviving an assassination attempt)
Coming together with leaders of the Afghan Mujahideen in the Oval Office, 1983
Gorbachev and Reagan sign the INF Treaty at the White House, 1987
President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev meet, 1985

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