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 * Ronald Reagan **



__**Info:**__ Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. He was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois and died on June 5, 2004 in Bel-Air, LA, California. Before he became president, he was an actor in his 20's and later after that he was the governor of California from 1967-1975. He served as Republican President from 1981-1989. When he was younger he was a Democrat, but overtime he had conservative views and officially became a Republican in the early 1960's. Reagan served two terms and was very well-liked and respected. He was known for his "good-natured" humor outside of work and during his work (ex: speeches). His major accomplishments included cutting taxes, increasing defense spending for nuclear weapons, negotiating a nuclear arms reduction agreement with the Soviets and was credited with helping to bring a quicker end to the Cold War. So basically he ended the Cold War which was a major problem that entailed communism threats to the United States for world domination, he ended it by resistantly standing against the Soviet Union and reversing a policy. With all that Reagan had done, by 1983 the whole nations economy was beginning to recover. Economists say that the nation came into a 7 year period of prosperity. A scandal that occurred during Reagan's presidency was the "Iran Contra Affair". The Iran Contra Affair was a confidential alignment to supply funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran.....The first year he was president, two months after his inauguration, he faced an assassination attempt on March 30,1981 made by a man with psychiatric issues, John Hinckley Jr. outside of a hotel in Washington, D.C. He survived, as the bullet went through one of his lungs and was very close to the heart but just missed it. He later told his wife with his funny sense of humor, "Honey, I forgot to duck." But when Reagan actually ended up passing in 2004, it was from having pneumonia also complicated with Alzheimers, he had Alzheimers from 10 years before he passed.

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