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*AMERICAN PRESIDENT #40*
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/ˈrɒnəld ˈwɪlsən ˈreɪɡən/
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*’6 FEBRUARY 1911′ – ‘5 JUNE 2004’*
*“age 93”*
*’pneumonia’ complicated by ‘alzheimer’s disease’*
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*”ronald wilson reagan” was an american ‘politician’ + ‘actor’ who served as the 40th president of the ‘united states’ from ‘1981’ to ‘1989’*
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(prior to his presidency, he was the 33rd governor of california from ‘1967’ to ‘1975’, following a career as a ‘hollywood actor’ + ‘union leader’)
(raised in a poor family in small towns of northern illinois, ronald reagan graduated from eureka college in 1932 and worked as a sports announcer on several regional radio stations)
(after moving to ‘hollywood’ in 1937, he became an actor and starred in a few major productions)
(reagan was twice elected as “president” of the “screen actors guild”, the “labor union for actors”, where he worked to “root out ‘communist influence'”)
(in the 1950s, he moved into television and was a motivational speaker at general electric factories)
(having been a lifelong “democrat”, his views changed)
(he became a conservative and in 1962 switched to the “republican party”)
(in 1964, reagan’s speech, “a time for choosing”, in support of barry goldwater’s floundering presidential campaign, earned him national attention as a new conservative spokesman)
(building a network of supporters, he was elected “governor of california” in 1966)
(as governor, reagan raised taxes, turned a state budget deficit to a surplus, challenged the protesters at the “university of california”, ordered national guard troops in during a period of protest movements in 1969, and was re-elected in 1970)
(he twice ran unsuccessfully for the republican nomination for the U.S. presidency in 1968 and 1976; four years later, he easily won the nomination outright, going on to be elected the oldest president, defeating incumbent ‘jimmy carter’ in 1980)
(entering the presidency in 1981, reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives)
(his supply-side economic policies, dubbed “reaganomics”, advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, control of the money supply to curb inflation, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending)
(in his first term he survived an assassination attempt, escalated the “war on drugs”, and fought public-sector labor)
(over his two terms, his economic policies saw a reduction of inflation from 12.5% to 4.4%, and an average annual growth of real GDP of 3.4%; while reagan did enact cuts in domestic discretionary spending, increased military spending contributed to increased federal outlays overall, even after adjustment for inflation)
(during his re-election bid, reagan campaigned on the notion that it was “morning in america”, winning a landslide in 1984 with the largest electoral college victory in history)
(foreign affairs dominated his second term, including ending of the “cold war”, the “bombing of libya”, and the “iran–contra affair”)
(publicly describing the soviet union as an “evil empire”, he transitioned cold war policy from ‘détente’ to ‘rollback’, by escalating an arms race with the USSR while engaging in talks with soviet general secretary ‘mikhail gorbachev’, which culminated in the ‘INF Treaty’, shrinking both countries’ nuclear arsenals)
(during his famous speech at the ‘brandenburg gate’, president reagan challenged gorbachev to “tear down this wall!”)
(five months after the end of his term, the ‘berlin wall’ fell, and on 26 december 1991, nearly three years after he left office, the ‘soviet union’ collapsed)
(leaving office in 1989, reagan held an approval rating of 68%, matching those of franklin d. roosevelt, and later “bill clinton”, as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the “modern era”)
(while having planned an active post-presidency, in 1994 reagan disclosed his diagnosis with “alzheimer’s disease” earlier that year, appearing publicly for the last time at the funeral of “richard nixon”; he died ten years later in 2004 at ‘age 93’)
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“how bout them monkeys at the UN, dick?”
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(an icon among ‘republicans’, he ranks favorably in public.critical opinion of U.S. presidents, and his tenure constituted a re-alignment toward ‘conservative policies’ in the ‘united states’)
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥