Nancy Reagan

According to Bill O’Reilly’s and Martin Dugard’s novel Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency, “Scores of police officers are called into line the route but cannot prevent the strikers from pelting the vehicles with rocks and bricks. Everyone on board is instructed to lie down on the floor to avoid being hit in the head by broken glass and projectiles.” The two authors later go to point out Reagan’s complete and utter hatred for the pro-communist protest by stating that…

United States, Ronald Reagan conducted business with class and honor. As a cofounder of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates led his company with passion, humility, and respect for others with whom he worked. Although Bill Gates has generously donated an enormous amount of money to the less fortunate, Ronald Reagan’s legacy has changed American politics forever. Ronald Reagan grew up in Tampico, Illinois, with one older brother, Neil. His father, John Edward Reagan, was an…

Introduction: Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United states. Through his life he accomplished many great feats. Ronald Reagan was a man that was truly talented in many different aspects. He was involved in many different platforms as an actor, governor, and finally a president. As an actor he worked as president of the Screen Actor’s Guild. There he met Nancy (Davis) Reagan, his future wife. Throughout his entire career as an actor he appeared in more than 50 films. Soon after his…

Gretchen Kuntz Nov. 18, 2014 Government Project Mr. Geissel p.7 Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States and was one of the most impacting presidents in American history. Reagan supported and aided every social group of Citizens through his two terms of presidency by the laws and acts he worked to pass. Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois on February 6, 1911. Growing up for Ronald Reagan was simple, he had one older brother Neil and his parents…

The Big Idea: Reagan is considered today as the greatest president of all time. Pop culture consistently calls Reagan as the most influential president of all time. But why? Was it his charisma? His system of Reaganomics? His assassination? His quick response to international relations? His memorable phrases? Or was the media that bloated him up? An Era before Reagan: The era of F.D.R, JFK, Harry Truman, and LBJ has ended. In this drastic era of America, forgotten presidents Gerald Ford and…

Just say no,” was a popular slogan when I was growing up. Throughout the 1980’s President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy created a powerful anti-drug campaign that used images like an egg representing a brain, and an egg frying for a brain on drugs. As a kid I couldn’t watch Saturday morning cartoons without being bombarded with anti-drug advertisements. Today kids get a different kind of message, not all drugs are bad regardless of the law. They are getting this message through the…

In 1980 Republican candidate Ronald Reagan assumed the highest office in government, that of the presidency, defeating incumbent president Jimmy Carter in a decisive victory that saw him win in forty-four of the nation’s fifty states. Reagan secured 51% of the popular vote, and 489 electoral votes, making it abundantly clear that the populist New Right movement that propelled his ascension in politics would usher in a new age of conservatism for the troubled nation. Reagan’s victory in the…

RONALD REAGAN 3 Reagan was not born into some rich family and had a father that was into politics. No he was born into a small family and his dad was a hard working man, but was a drunkard, and that was difficult for Ronald. Ronald Wilson Reagan grew up in hardship, but with the love and the lessons of his mother, he learned to overcome the difficulties of life and became the president we would soon know. He later would make America great during his presidency. He also soon…

directing his government agencies to target black social activists. President Gerald Ford stoked the flames by pushing for and achieving mandatory minimum sentences for drug related crimes in many states. President Ronald Reagan’s administration sullied Nancy Reagan’s…

Reagans achieved to voice values, cut tax rates and peace through strength. Reagan gave voice that served America well he championed the causes of pro-life and family-values movements and ultimately he wanted to achieve acceptance in society when dealing with these topics in the 1970’s. Besides this, Reagan cut tax rates and his Tax Reform Act of 1986 simplified the income tax by taking away tax shelters…