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RONALD REAGAN
1911 - 2004
From 1981 to 1989 former actor Ronald Wilson Reagan presented
the United States as their 40th president. Some say John Wayne
should've given a chance as well.
Ronald married actress Nancy Davis
in 1952.
Busy actor Ronald also worked as a radio
announcer, sport commentator, spokesman for General Electric,
and later as governor of California (from 1967 to 1975.)
ASSASSINATION
ATTEMPTS ON RONALD REAGAN
An
assassination attempt was made on March 30, 1981, by John W.
Hinckley Jr., who fired six shots from his Rohm RG-12 .22
revolver in 1.8 seconds from fifteen feet away. Reagan survived
thanks to his bodyguards and a speedy transport to the hospital. No
one was killed in this incident. Hinckley ended up in a mental
hospital.
On May 5, 1986, and just minutes before
Reagan's arrival at the Tokyo Summit, Japan, five rockets were fired
at the meeting site from an apartment two miles away. The Middle
Core Faction terrorist group claimed responsibility.
Check out Assassinations
in History.
Similar to good ole
Margaret Thatcher, Ronald
Reagan didn't have much patience for the Communism of the Soviet
Union. It took Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost policies
to soften Ronald's opinion.
And it looked like this:

GLASNOST IN ACTION
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Ronald Reagan died of Alzheimer's disease.
Check the
US Election Map 1796 -
1968.
Check
Governments in History Chart.
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