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Ronald Reagan: Central American
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As an actor Reagan received decent reviews, but not especially good roles. After a series of unmemorable films in which he typically played the innocent "good guy," in 1940 he landed a role which made him famous: that of Notre Dame football star George Gipp ("the Gipper") in Knute Rockne - All American. In January 1940 Reagan married starlet Jane Wyman. With her he had a daughter, Maureen, in 1941, and adopted a son, Michael, in 1945; another infant born to them died in June 1947.
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Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, on February 6, 1911. His father, John Edward Reagan, who was of Irish-American ancestry, earned his living as a shoe salesman. His mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan, was of English and Scottish ancestry. Neither of his parents had more than an elementary school education. Ronald, nicknamed Dutch, had an older brother, Neil.
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Reagan argued that the American economy was on the move again; with the rapid computerization of the economy, high technology was the driving force. But the Soviets lagged far behind even South Korea when it came to high technology, and slipped further every year. Reagan made the Soviet predicament far worse by forbidding high tech exports to the Soviets from the U.S. or its allies. For a while the decline was masked by high prices for Soviet oil exports, but that advantage collapsed in the early 1980s. In November 1985, the oil price was $30/barrel for crude, in March 1986 it had fallen to $12, as the Soviet economy lost billions in revenues. [17]
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The Reagan Doctrine was championed by the conservative Heritage Foundation and its foreign policy analysts, along with others on the right sympathetic and influential with the Reagan administration. Speaking at The Heritage Foundation in 1983, Reagan said: "In the Third World, in Afghanistan, in Central America, in Africa and Southeast Asia, opposition to totalitarian regimes is on the rise. It may not grab the headlines, but there is a democratic revolution underway."[1]
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ARLINGTON, Va., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The First Annual GI Film Festival will be held on Memorial Day weekend, May 25-28, 2007, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC. The festival will present both classic and premier films from international and domestic filmmakers celebrating the heroic stories of the American Armed Forces and the worldwide struggle for freedom and liberty. The three-day GI Film Festival will include:
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Reagan would go on to act in 53 motion pictures. His best-known role was that of doomed football player George Gipp in the 1940 film Knute Rockne - All American. The nickname "The Gipper" stayed with him for the rest of his life.
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