Ronald Reagan served as the 40th President of the United States. The actor turned politician was born in Tampico, Illinois on February 6, 1911and passed away on June 5, 2004. He served as President from 1981-1989. Sunday marks Ronald Reagan’s Centennial Celebration making the former President a hot Internet topic.
According to ronaldreagan.com, Reagan was first married to actress Jane Wyman for seven years, from 1941-1948. They had two children, Michael and Maureen. The coupled was divorced and Reagan later married actress Nancy Davis in 1952. Ron and Nancy also had two children, Patricia and Ron, Jr.
Ronald Reagan worked as a sports radio announcer and studied at Eureka College then later moved to Hollywood where he starred in dozens of films and even became President of the Screen Actors Guild. In 1954 Reagan, then a Democrat, became a spokesman for General Electric and hosted its national television program for eight years. In 1962 he changed party affiliations and became a Republican, he later served two terms as Governor of California.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was sworn in as President of the United States on January 20, 1981. During the nineteen eighties, President Ronald Reagan was dubbed the great communicator and through the years had many famous quotes. According to thinkexist.com the following are a handful of the President’s quotes:
“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”
“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”
“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.”
“Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face.”
“We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”
“There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder”
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”
“Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.”
“One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.”
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
Many historians and citizens agree one of Ronald Reagan’s most famous quotes, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” The famous quote was spoken on June 12, 1987; President Ronald Reagan said that famous line to the people of West Berlin at the base of the Brandenburg Gate, near the Berlin Wall.
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the best president we ever had
Reagan's True Legacy: he tripled the deficit (via the truly B.S. school of "supply-side economics, which made the rich richer, etc., etc.; and by increasing spending in defense, when it actually wasn't needed as reports now confirm -- Russia would run themselves into the ground anyway -- they were the first big country to stupidly go to war in Afghanistan). He cut important social programs (education, environmental programs --anyone remember James Watt?). He caved into religious fundamentalists (the religious right began to truly make inroads into Washington during Reagan's two terms), he appointed guys like the aforementioned Watts and William Bennett (Sec. of Education, the gambling addict who edited THE BOOK OF VIRTUES -- LOL -- and the idiot who was first in charge running the "War on Drugs," which went as well as the "War on Terror"), and let them reverse all the good that had been done before they held office, and...he followed the advice of his wife on when to take plane trips (and make certain decisions) -- his, as is well-known -- consulted an astrologer. There was more, but that's good for starters. Except to add this: along with all of the other screwed up things Reagan and his adminstration gave the our nation (many of the citizens of which are too stupid to remember and/or learn the actual truth of recent history), he also gave us the Political Sound Bite. It was his stupid posturing, head waggling and empty-headed grins which so many gullible and ill-educa
"It isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronal Reagan
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