Ronald Reagan Biography Essay

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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,” quoted Ronald Reagan. I think what he meant by that was that you MUST fight for your education. It is not just going to be handed to you. So you have to work for it. Not everything in life is going to be handed to you. He was the the fortieth president. President Ronald Reagan was the best leader because in his early life he graduated from Eureka College in majors in economics and sociology and in his presidency. In my essay I will talk about his early life, his life during his presidency, and his life after presidency.

On February 6,1911, a man named Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois.One of the nicknames his father gave him was “Dutch”.His father gave him that nickname because he said that he reminds him of a “fat little dutchman” His mother name is Nelle and his father John (Jack) Edward Reagan. His father worked as a shoe salesman and his mother a community volunteer His sibling, an older brother, named John Neil. In 1920, they
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Bush. His political party was Republican Party. On June 6,1982 he is the first president to address the combined Houses of Parliament. In 1984 he runs for his second term and wins Democrat Walter Mondale. Which makes Him the oldest person to be elected to become president! On January 20,1989 he leaves office with public opinion making him most famous President since Franklin D. Roosevelt. In July 1989 the couple visited a friend’s ranch in Mexico at the ranch they rode horses. While their Ronald Reagan was thrown off from his horse. He hit his head hard. Immediately he was rushed to a hospital in Tucson, Arizona. Once he x-rays back it showed that he had a concussion which he had to get a surgery for. 1994 he was diagnosed with alzheimer’s disease just like his

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