Ronald+Reagan

=media type="custom" key="7783353"Ronald Reagan = by marielle doucette
 * · On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois.
 * · He attended high school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through Eureka College.
 * · There, he studied economics and sociology, played on the football team, and acted in school plays.
 * · became a radio sports announcer
 * · he appeared in 53 films
 * · first marriage to actress Jane Wyman
 * · had two children, Maureen and Michael
 * · Maureen passed away in 2001. In 1952 he married Nancy Davis
 * · they had two children, Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott.
 * · president of the Screen Actors Guild
 * · Reagan became embroiled in disputes over the issue of Communism in the film industryff
 * · his political views shifted from liberal to conservative
 * · In 1966 he was elected Governor of California
 * · he was re-elected in 1970.
 * · Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980
 * · chose as his running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations Ambassador George Bush.
 * · Reagan won 489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter.
 * · On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office, but 69 days later someone tried to shoot the new president.
 * · 69 days later he was shot by a would-be assassin
 * · quickly recovered and returned to duty
 * · obtained legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb inflation, increase employment, and strengthen national defense
 * · cutting taxes.
 * · 1984 Reagan and Bush win a second term
 * longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression.
 * “A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?”
 * Ronald Reagan
 * "People don't start wars, governments do"-Ronald Reagan
 * ======"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will."-Ronald Reaganmedia type="custom" key="7768917"======