Ronald Reagan's Downfall

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Ronald Reagan
40th President

President, actor, and Congressman are three things that represent Ronald Reagen. Many people knew that Ronald Reagan was a president, but he was so much more than a president. As a well known president of the United States, Ronald Reagan showed Americans that even though they are not a politician you can still do something good for society and if you put your mind to something you can do it. He left a lasting legacy as someone that will do things that nobody had the guts to do. The origin of Ronald Reagan was very nice once his was starting college at Eureka College and when he was little they would always be moving places because his dad was always getting drunk. “At Eureka College his loved to be in
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was because Reagan had the guts to go over into U.S.S.R territories and make a treaty with them. “At that time everyone thought that U.S.S.R was one of our biggest enemies because they had a lot of land and they had more nuclear bombs then us, yet they untied with us.”(Cobblestone 30) They promised that they will share all of the technical and findings that they discovered.
Number three, when there was three hostages and they were hostages for over a year and exactly 444 day as hostages. The place that were kept were in Iran and that act was called the Iran Hostage Crisis. “Likely we were friends with U.S.S.R because they helped us in freeing the hostages and the day that they were released on Reagan's second inauguration.”(Reschholoss 479) Some of the things that Reagan was good at and benefited him when he was president was his speeches and specing in front of the crowd. “When he was acting in movies one of the people that hired Reagan said that he was one of the best at speeches so that is why he became president at that time.”(“Ronald” 170) When he was trying to become president for the first time one of his speeches called “ A Time Crossing “ was his most motivating speech that he
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The public would say that “ The Reagan revolution is running out of gas.”(Reschholoss 486) Some of the things that wouldn’t let him stay in for another term was his health because of the lose of blood and the next thing that I mention. The second to last year of his second term he figured out that he had Alzheimer's and Alzheimer's is when as time goes on you start to forget who you are. At the last term his vise president took over the White House.
Even thought that Reagan is not in the White House anymore Reagan left a big legacy behind. He is considered one of the greatest presidents of all time,“he made a huge alence with U.S.S.R that we still have with today and we will have in the future”,(“Ronald” 170) and he helped end the Cold War. This is what makes Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan's truly left a legacy as one of the greatest presidents of all time. He Inspired Americans to go something if you put your mind to it after he made an alliance with U.S.S.R.. He was a big hero of change because he made the United States of America go from 200 million dollars in debt to not being in debt anymore. I’m more people were like Ronald Reagan people will not be afraid to do something that they don’t want to

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