Biography of Ronald Reagan
President Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States. He radically revised the goals of the US government and put an end to the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
Childhood and Education
Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois, USA, to John Edward’s family “Jack” Reagan and Nally Wilson Reagan. The family often moves from city to city and finally, in 1920, settles in Dixon, Illinois, where Jack Reagan opens a shoe store. In 1928, Ronald graduated from Dixon High School, during which time he studied actively in sports, was elected president by the students and played in school plays. On summer vacations, the boy worked as a bodyguard.
After winning a sports scholarship, Ronald enters the College of Eureka and focuses his efforts on studying economics and sociology. After the release in 1932, Reagan gets a sports commentator on radio in Iowa.
Hollywood career and marriages
In 1937, Reagan
In 1940, Reagan married actress Jane Wyman, from the marriage with which he gave birth to his daughter Maureen. The couple also adopt a boy, Michael. In 1948, the family disintegrated. During the Second World War, Reagan was released from military service because of poor vision, and therefore this time he spends, filming for the army educational films.
From 1947 to 1952, Reagan headed the Screen Actors Guild. In the same period, he meets with actress Nancy Davis. The couple plays a wedding in 1952. In a marriage with Nancy, Reagan has two children, Patricia and Ronald.
Reagan’s film career is on the decline, and in 1954 he became the host of the weekly television drama series “Theater General Electrics.” It was at this time that his liberal political views changed to conservative: he holds discussions about the interests of the business community, opposes excessive control over government and empty spending – raises topics that will
The Governorship and the Presidency
On a national political arena Reagan appears in 1964, after making a successful speech in support of the presidential candidate from the Republican Party of the United States, Barry Goldwater. Two years later, for the first time running for office, Reagan defeats Democrat Democrat Edmund “Pat” Brown Jr. and becomes governor of California.
Twice, in 1968 and 1976, unsuccessfully putting forward his candidacy for president, in 1980, finally, Reagan gets the approval of the party. 69-year-old Reagan becomes the oldest president of the United States.
Inauguration and Attempt
January 20, 1981, during the inauguration speech, Reagan notes that “the government is not a solution to problems, the government is a problem.” He proclaims an era of national revival and expresses his intention to make America “a ray of light for those who lack freedom.”
March 30, 1981, when Reagan with several advisers leaves the hotel “Washington Hilton”, a shot sounds, but quickly reacted Secret Service agents have time to push the president into the limousine. Already in the car it is found out that he was still injured. According to the medical report, the bullet penetrated the lung, almost hitting the heart. Within a few weeks, the president returns to work.
Domestic policy
In domestic affairs, Reagan promotes a policy of reducing social programs and encouraging businesses. To stimulate the development of the economy, tax cuts are applied. He also advocates increased military spending and the termination of state regulation of private business. By 1983, the US economy began a period of recovery.
Foreign policy
The most important foreign policy question of Ronald Reagan’s presidency is the Cold War. Having encircled the Soviet Union with an “evil empire”, Reagan is developing programs to increase the production of weapons and strengthen the country’s military forces. He introduces the “Reagan Doctrine”, in which the US assists Africa, Asia and Latin America in supporting anti-communist movements.
In addition, the presidential administration has to face the complication of already difficult relations with the Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi.
In the second term of his presidency, Reagan establishes relations with the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, the heads of the United States and the USSR signed a historic agreement on the destruction of medium-range nuclear weapons.
Re-election in 1984
In November 1984, after defeating Democratic candidate Walter Mondale, Reagan wins the election again.
However, the second term of the presidency is overshadowed by the heated scandal “Iran-Contra” – a complex scheme of deliveries of weapons to US opponents to Iran, the money from which was sent to support anti-communist insurgents in Central America.
Recent years and death
After leaving the White House in 1989, Ronald and Nancy Reagan return to their home in Los Angeles, California.
In November 1994, Reagan unveiled a handwritten letter in which he would report on his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
After almost ten years, on June 5, 2004, Reagan died in his own home at the age of 93 years. Reagan is buried in the presidential library in California.
Quotations
For democracy it is worth dying, because it is the most dignified political system ever devised by mankind.
People who have freedom of choice always choose the world.
Information is the oxygen of our time.
The government exists to protect us from each other. The government passes the border when it begins to protect us from ourselves.
They say that politics is the second most ancient profession. I happened to learn that she strikingly resembles the first.
Violence, in the end, only takes a person into captivity. Freedom captivates him.
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