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Ronald Reagan: United States
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Sailors man the rails and render honors to the USS Arizona Memorial as the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) pulls into Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on January 22, 2005. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class James Thierry (# 050122-N-0610T-089).
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Ronald Reagan put a great deal of trust in his administration. He believed he'd hired the best men for the job, and he let them do their job while he focused on other issues, and in most cases, it worked for the best. However, in this one instance, it was a mistake, and President Reagan was rebuked for not controlling his national security staff, and some of his staff were indicted on charges of "conspiracy to defraud the United States."
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Born February 6, 1911, in Tampico, IL, Ronald Wilson Reagan began his acting career while studying economics at Eureka College. He broke into show business as a sportscaster at a Des Moines, IA, radio station, and from there assumed the position of play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Cubs. By the mid-'30s, he relocated to Hollywood, signing with Warner Bros. in 1937 and making his screen debut later that year in Love Is on the Air. Reagan made over a dozen more films over the course of the next two years, almost all of them B-movies. In 1939... he won a prominent role in the Bette Davis tearjerker Dark Victory, a performance which greatly increased his visibility throughout the Hollywood community.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Illinois in 1911. After a varied career as a radio sports announcer, motion picture actor, and TV host, Reagan became active in conservative politics. After achieving national publicity for his televised speeches for Barry Goldwater in 1964, Reagan went on to win the California governorship in 1966 and was re-elected to a second four-year term in 1970. Throughout his eight years in office, Reagan stressed the idea of holding down the size and cost of government, nonetheless, the state budget increased from $5.7 billion to $10.8 billion during his time in office.
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Reagan was given a full presidential state funeral on June 9, the first since Lyndon Johnson in 1973, drawing many parallels. Vice President Dick Cheney, who along with Senate President Pro Tempore Ted Stevens and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, gave the first of the eulogies for the former president, presided over the state funeral because President George W. Bush was in Sea Island, Georgia, hosting the G-8 Summit.
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Reagan's domestic policies recessed the US economy and re-election seemed uncertain. By November 1984... a pre-election recovery gave him victory by bigger margins than in 1980 and began the longest peacetime economic boom in the twentieth century. With "peace abroad and prosperity at home" Reagan seemed set to enjoy the most successful two-term presidency since Roosevelt. He presided over the 1986 refurbishing of the Statue of Liberty, a very symbolic moment for him. Almost immediately the arms for Iran affair — later called Irangate — began to leak out. The Senate's Tower Report of March 1987 heavily criticized his involvement in the Iran affair and his general competence.
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