Ronald Reagan

In this autobiography Ronald Reagan, the former president, describes his life from his early years until the ending of his second presidential term. This book explores Ronald Reagan’s personal and private life, and takes us from Dixon, Illinois to the White House. Throughout the book he shares important events from his childhood and adulthood and how his political views became what they were. Over the course of the book, Ronald Reagan shows off his famous wit, sense of humor, one liners,…

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…

shuttle exploded mid-flight. 74 year old Ronald Reagan was the president at the time of the incident. Reagan was only one year into his second term as president. He was fascinated with the space program so he played a big part in the rebuilding years after the tragedy. Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States in 1981, although he did not originally start out as a politician. He was born in Tampico, Illinois on February 6, 1911. Reagan began as an entertainer and starred in…

ever ask if the images are true to the original.” ~Ronald Reagan Very few figures in American history are as studied and scrutinized as Ronald Reagan. Reagan was elected to the presidency in a crucial period in American history; a recession threatened American prosperity and the Soviet Union’s aggressive expansion threatened the freedom of the entire world but Reagan endeavored to combat these evils with his strong Conservative beliefs. Reagan was an influential figure in U.S. history and…

of the National Review, a conservative magazine. He wrote his book, The Reagan I Knew, about his good friend Ronald Reagan. In the book Buckley reminisces on his years of friendship with Reagan. Throughout, Buckley includes letters written between him, Reagan, and Nancy Reagan. These letters give an insight not seen anywhere else on the life and thoughts of Ronald Reagan. Through the book the readers learn more about Reagan than they would in any history class. Buckley recalls Reagan’s acting…

Bill O’ Reilly and Martin Dugard took it upon themselves to continue their popular series with an attempt at telling the great story of Ronald Reagan. Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and his story is very remarkable including a defining moment in his life when John Hinckley Jr. took an attempt on Reagan’s life. In Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency, the authors use that event as a basis for the book and look to show the significance of that event.…

Prior to Ronald Reagan taking office in 1981, the Cold War impasse felt like a victory for the American people. However, Ronald Reagan did not see victory, he saw this stalemate as weak and un-American. Reagan’s new take on dealing with the Soviet Union can be summarized in two words: God and Freedom. With these two guiding principles, Reagan ditched dètente and got fellow world leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II to join with him against the “evil empire.” With the “renewal of…

In this chapter we see the rise of the conservative party as we know no it today. This begins with President Ronald Reagan. With the shift to conservative values in many areas of the country, Ronald Reagan was able to beat Jimmy Carter by a land slide, winning almost every state in the United States. The Republican Conservative values were based on anti-communism, smaller government, relying more on states’ rights, tougher on crime, lowering taxes for the wealthy, a return to Christian values.…

Margret Thatcher's sole purpose of writing her eulogy was to make the American people remember all of the great deeds Ronald Reagan did for the country. She comforted the grieving nation by sharing her own personal experiences that had with the now deceased president. Along with this, Thatcher also uses repetition to get her point across to the American people. Thatcher uses direct quotes from the late president in order to show how much of an influence he had on the country. In the beginning…

Although Ronald Reagan was a tremendous president he was also a abundant actor. He was in movies and television shows he starred in some and co-starred in others. People today know Ronald Reagan because of his presidency, he was also an actor as well, people today don’t know of him as a wonderful movie star that he was, they know him as the fortieth president. After Reagan graduated he started a job at the WOC in Davenport, Iowa as a radio sportscaster. Then he found himself working for the NBC…