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Ronald Reagan: President Ronald Reagan
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Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher were the three dominant figures of the 1980s. History may well place the man who was sometimes unkindly called "the acting President" in the first rank of those who have occupied the White House. At the very least he will be one of the most prominent in the second division.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, the principal speaker at the commissioning ceremony of the ninth Nimitz-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), addresses a distinguished audience. In the front row, behind Mr. Cheney, are the ship's sponsor and former First Lady, Mrs. Nancy Reagan; the ship's first Commanding Officer, Captain Bill Goodwin; and Acting Secretary of the Navy, Honorable Hansford T. Johnson. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Rusty Black (# 030712-N-4616B-003).
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In a series of summit talks (1985รข€“88), Gorbachev improved relations with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, with whom he signed an Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) arms limitation treaty in 1987. By 1989 he had brought about the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (see Afghanistan War) and had sanctioned the end of the Communist monopoly on political power in Eastern Europe. For his contributions to reducing East-West tensions, he was awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. By 1990... Gorbachev's perestroika program had failed to deliver significant improvement in the economy, and the elimination of political and social control had released latent ethnic and national tensions in the Baltic states, in the constituent republics of Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova, and elsewhere.
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James Brady, press secretary to Ronald Reagan, was shot in the head during an attempt on the president's life. Hearing that Brady's wound was certain to be fatal, a Whitehouse staffer mistakenly informed the press that Brady had died. The major television networks announced the death of James Brady. The story traveled throughout the world at electronic speeds. Miraculously, Brady survived his surgery. The press revealed that the man they had been memorializing was still alive.
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Ronald Reagan's personal diaries will be published tomorrow. Taegan Goddard notes this is "the first time a U.S. president's diaries have been released." The Politico's Mike Allen thinks it will shake up people's conceptions.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 โ June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981โ1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967โ1975). Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he became an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and a spokesman for General Electric (GE). His start in politics occurred during his work for GE; originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.
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