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Dec 27, 2005 · Ronald Reagan: From Silver Screen to Oval Office. A charismatic, yet firm leader, President Ronald Reagan stood up to the Soviet Union and helped end communist rule during the Cold War. His recent death has renewed interest in the life of this determined man and his fascinating journey from Hollywood to the White House.
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- Early Life
- From Hollywood to D.C.
- A Scary Start
- "Reaganomics"
- The Iran-Contra Scandal
- The Fall of The Berlin Wall
- Lasting Legacy
Born on February 6, 1911, Ronald Reagan grew up in small towns in northern Illinois. He enjoyed playing sports and acting in plays at the public schools he attended and later at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois. After graduating college, Reagan worked as a sports announcer on the radio. In 1937 he moved to Los Angeles, California, to become an ac...
In 1950, Reagan supported actress Helen Gahagan Douglas in a U.S. Senate election against future president Richard Nixon. Douglas lost the race, but Reagan’s experience as a political volunteer helped inspire him to become more involved in politics. When Nixon ran for president against John F. Kennedyin 1960, Reagan delivered 200 speeches supportin...
Reagan had been president for only two months when a gunman tried to assassinate him. On March 30, 1981, a man named John Hinckley, Jr., shot the president in the chest as he was walking out of a speaking engagement in Washington, D.C. Hinckley was arrested, and Reagan was rushed to the hospital for surgery on his collapsed lung. He was in good con...
Reagan’s main goal as president was to improve the economy so that more people could become wealthier. His economic program came to be known as "Reaganomics" and was based on the idea that if rich citizens didn’t pay as much money in taxes, then the money they saved could be spent elsewhere, “trickling down” to help ordinary citizens. At the same t...
A series of scandals happened during the later years of Reagan’s presidency. The most important one, called Iran-Contra, involved illegal sales of weapons to the Middle Eastern nation of Iran. Profits from the sales were secretly sent to support rebel forces called the Contras in Nicaragua, a country in Central America. Congress had previously pass...
Still, Reagan’s popularity went up in 1988 when he helped bring an end to the Cold War, a long period of tensions between the United States and the former Soviet Union, now Russia. The Cold War had started shortly after World War II ended in 1945. Though the Soviet Union had fought on the side of the United States during the war, relations between ...
After his second term as president, Reagan retired to Los Angeles, California, with the highest approval rating of any modern president. In 1994 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, an illness that affects memory, and wasn’t seen in public much. His death 10 years later on June 5, 2004, inspired tributes all over the country. Reagan has remai...
Ronald Reagan: Presidential Library By Amy Margaret. SKU: BKH119. Published by PowerKids Press, this charming book tells the story of the Reagan Library and our 40th President. For children ages 6-11. 24 pages, fully illustrated.
Apr 12, 2021 · About. Author. From his childhood in rural Illinois to moviemaking days in Hollywood and on to a career in politics that took him all the way to the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan kept an abiding faith in America and in what our country stood for. The oldest president ever, he survived a near-fatal assassination attempt and lived to be 93.
Dec 27, 2005 · Ronald Reagan: From Silver Screen to Oval Office. A charismatic, yet firm leader, President Ronald Reagan stood up to the Soviet Union and helped end communist rule during the Cold War. His recent death has renewed interest in the life of this determined man and his fascinating journey from Hollywood to the White House.
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