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  CNN.com - Ronald Reagan dies at 93 - Jun 5, 2004
Reagan led a conservative revolution that set the economic and cultural tone of the 1980s, hastened the end of the Cold War and revitalized the Republican Party.
Reagan's body is to lie in state at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., before his burial at the library.
President Bush responded to Reagan's death in Paris, France, where he is on tour to honor the heroes of World War II on the weekend of the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/05/reagan.health/index.html   (975 words)

  
 Biography of Ronald Reagan
On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois.
Reagan declared war against international terrorism, sending American bombers against Libya after evidence came out that Libya was involved in an attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub.
Overall, the Reagan years saw a restoration of prosperity, and the goal of peace through strength seemed to be within grasp.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/rr40.html   (647 words)

  
 Ronald Reagan
First and foremost, Reagan was a firm adherent to Biblical prophecy; specifically, he believed that the end of the world -- the Battle of Armageddon -- was close at hand.
Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is quoted in Newsweek magazine as saying: "Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G.I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything." The claim is provably false.
Ronald Reagan is admitted to the hospital for prostate surgery and the removal of four polyps in his colon.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/presidents/ronald-reagan   (4899 words)

  
 NPR : Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004
Reagan appeared as a friendly witness before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and supported moves to fllist writers and directors suspected of Communist ties.
In his two terms as governor, Reagan pushed to reduce the state's welfare rolls and, faced with a large budget deficit, was forced to raise taxes despite a campaign pledge to cut them.
Reagan recovered in a few weeks and resumed work on his economic program: a record cut in taxes, massive increases in the defense budget and steep reductions in welfare and other domestic programs.
www.npr.org /news/specials/obits/reagan   (1650 words)

  
 Ronald Reagan - SourceWatch
Reagan's legacy includes unprecedented federal budget deficits fueled by tax cuts made at the same time the federal budget grew, due to massive increases in military spending (which the Soviet Union could not match).
"Reagan is the one who freed presidential politics from the last vestiges of an obligation to make sense, and quickly ushered in the era where presidents are nothing but products, feel-good media creations that cheerlead for the active governmental maintenance of superstitions and traditional 'values'.
In 1980, when campaigning to become U.S. President, Reagan wrote to a North Carolina tobacco farmer reassuring him of his strong support for the tobacco industry.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Ronald_Reagan   (553 words)

  
 Ronald Wilson Reagan — Infoplease.com
Reagan, an actor turned politician, a New Dealer turned conservative, came to films and politics from a thoroughly Middle-American background—middle class, Middle West, and small town.
Reagan earned a BA degree in 1932 from Eureka (Ill.) College, where a photographic memory aided in his studies and in debating and college theatricals.
Reagan could point to numerous domestic achievements as well: sharp cuts in income tax rates, creating economic growth without inflation, and reducing the unemployment rate, among others.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0760624.html   (1093 words)

  
 Reagan UFO Story
The CIA said of Reagan "he had the least experience as a regular consumer of national-level intelligence of any President elected since the CIA was formed." In addition, CIA reports claimed that Reagan was not keen on long involved briefings, which limited how much he was told.
Reagan felt that the offers for daily intelligence briefings from the Carter CIA people probably wouldn’t be needed, because there wasn’t anything Reagan needed that he couldn’t learn reading the newspaper.
Reagan would have active input into the drafts of the speeches prepared for him, but other than this input he basically read whatever was given to him by the Communications Office.
www.presidentialufo.com /reagan_ufo_story.htm   (12055 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Ex-President Ronald Reagan dies
Reagan's White House tenure - from 1981 to 1989 - was marked by the climax of the Cold War and the beginning of the end of Soviet communism.
A representative of the family said Ronald Reagan passed away on Saturday at 1300 (2000GMT) from pneumonia - a complication of Alzheimer's which had afflicted him for a decade.
Reagan was the 40th president of the US, taking office at the age of 69, the oldest to do so.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3779583.stm   (570 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Ex-President Ronald Reagan dies
Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, who met Reagan on a number of occasions, called him a "great president", thanks to whom the Soviet Union and America had begun a difficult but crucial dialogue.
Reagan revealed in November 1994 that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which destroys brain cells and causes memory loss.
Reagan's body will be taken to his presidential library and museum in Simi Valley, California and then flown to Washington for a state funeral.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3779583.stm   (570 words)

  
 Mackubin Thomas Owens on Ronald Reagan on National Review Online
Reagan's success in ending American malaise and thereby changing the course of the world can be found in a famous 1953 essay by the British philosopher, Sir Isaiah Berlin.
Reagan knew was that the United States was a fundamentally decent regime that constituted the only hope for freedom and prosperity in the modern world.
Reagan had the good fortune to be consistently underestimated by his adversaries.
www.nationalreview.com /owens/owens200406051832.asp   (1483 words)

  
 TIME 100: Ronald Reagan
It is good to think of how he did it, because the gifts he brought to resolving the conflict reflected very much who he was as a man. He began with a common-sense conviction that the Soviets were not a people to be contained but a system to be defeated.
By the time Reagan made a serious run for the presidency, in 1976, it was easy to think the Soviets might conquer America militarily.
But Reagan said no. When he became President, he did what he had promised for a decade to do: he said we were going to rearm, and we built up the U.S. military.
www.time.com /time/time100/leaders/profile/reagan.html   (411 words)

  
 Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library & Museum Bookstore
Follow Reagan's active duty during World War II in the U.S. Air Forces with the First Motion Picture Unit, his return to the entertainment industry at the end of the war and his marriage to Nancy Davis.
Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed passionately in the power and responsibility of each person to determine the course of their lives, their communities and their nations.
The Reagan Library is the largest of all the Presidential Libraries, with archival holdings of nearly 55 million pages of government records, over 1.5 million photographs and approximately 769,500 feet of motion picture film.
www.reaganlibrary.net   (4588 words)

  
 Reagan 2020
Reagan 2020 is the Internet's most comprehensive resource on Ronald Reagan.
It represents a permanent campaign advocating individual, family and community rights and responsibilities in acts of self-governance, as set forth by our Founders in the Declaration of Independence and codified in its subordinate guidance, our Republic's Constitution, the original intent of which is specified in the Federalist Papers.
Ronald Reagan's tenure as President, and his enduring legacy, was and remains dedicated to the plurality of Americans who uphold the most basic tenets of our Republic, "...
reagan2020.us   (141 words)

  
 Reagan National Airport
Motorists who are planning to drive and park at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport should check parking availability before traveling to the airport.
There is a need for volunteers to work with Travelers Aid at Reagan National and Dulles International Airports.
If you can spare 3 1/2 to 4 hours a week and would like to help air travelers, please call 703-417-3975 for National or 703-572-7350 for Dulles to learn more about this program, or visit www.travelersaid.org to find out more about airport volunteering.
www.metwashairports.com /reagan   (406 words)

  
 Not Even a Hedgehog - The stupidity of Ronald Reagan. By Christopher Hitchens   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ronald Reagan claimed that the Russian language had no word for "freedom." (The word is "svoboda"; it's quite well attested in Russian literature.) Ronald Reagan said that intercontinental ballistic missiles (not that there are any non-ballistic missiles—a corruption of language that isn't his fault) could be recalled once launched.
Reagan announced that apartheid South Africa had "stood beside us in every war we've ever fought," when the South African leadership had been on the other side in the most recent world war.
Reagan then modestly let his underlings maintain that he was too dense to understand the connection between the two impeachable crimes.
slate.msn.com /id/2101842   (987 words)

  
 John H. Reagan Home Page
Reagan has the distinction of being one of the oldest campuses in the Houston area and being on the cutting edge of technology.
Reagan is located in the historic Heights just northwest of downtown Houston.
Today, Reagan HS is becoming a leader among schools in transformation.
hs.houstonisd.org /ReaganHS   (206 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Reagan: A Life in Letters   (Site not responding. Last check: )
That Reagan would spend the time, as both governor of California and President, to respond to the concerns and inquiries of constituents reveals that he never forgot how he got to his positions of leadership in the first place.
Certainly, President Reagan was not only the most personally insightful person on the national stage about the world around him of any of our presidents in the last 100 years, but clearly he is the best writer since Abraham Lincoln.
I especially loved one letter in particular written to Reagan by a young man appealing for disaster relief funds after his mother declared his bedroom a "disaster area." Reagan's reply is hilarious.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/074321966X?v=glance   (1931 words)

  
 Reagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nancy Reagan, the wife of Ronald Reagan and influential First Lady
Ron Reagan, President Reagan's son and liberal journalist
John Henninger Reagan, the postmaster general for the Confederate States of America
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reagan   (122 words)

  
 Reagan Legacy Project- Speeches   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ronald Reagan- Speech announcing his Presidential intentions for the 1976 election.
Ronald Reagan- Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987.
Ronald Reagan- Speech announcing his affliction with Alzheimer's Disease, November 4, 1994.
www.reaganlegacy.org /speeches   (273 words)

  
 Reagan Quotes - The Reagan Years
"Reagan's only contribution [to the subject of the MX missile] throughout the entire hour and a half was to interrupt somewhere at midpoint to tell us he'd watched a movie the night before, and he gave us the plot from WarGames, the movie.
Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope--that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.'"
Reagan's total charitable giving of $5,965 did not approach 10% of total income.
www.geocities.com /thereaganyears/reaganquotes.htm   (1588 words)

  
 Reagan, Reconsidered - Slate's coverage of his death, his life, and his legacy.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Reagan, Reconsidered - Slate's coverage of his death, his life, and his legacy.
"What Reagan Got Wrong: Liberty is not the absence of government," by William Saletan, posted June 6, 2004
"Reagan vs. Clinton: Who was responsible for the prosperity of the '90s?" by Dinesh D'Souza and E.J. Dionne, posted November 1997
slate.msn.com /id/2102008   (320 words)

  
 New Red Archives >> Reagan Youth > Home   (Site not responding. Last check: )
According to an e-mail from "Tracy Pew," the Beastie Boys gave their regards to Reagan Youth at a recent show by playing a tune.
what waz so tellin 'n eerie waz the noticeable crowd silence as the Beasties pounded out the Reagan Youth song; even the three jarhead slam pits on the floor were confounded by this taste of classic NY punk and were brought to a stand-still...
much of the time, Reagan Youth's ironic bandname waz mistakenly taken literally, not az the sarcastic satire of the zombie nation at that time or any other that it waz...
www.newredarchives.com /bands/reaganyouth   (255 words)

  
 Salon.com News | Reagan blasts Bush
Ronald Reagan, Ron, Nancy Reagan and Patti Davis, circa 1967.
The Bush inner circle would like to think of George W.'s presidency as more of an extension of Ronald Reagan's than of his one-term father's.
Reagan himself, who has long suffered from Alzheimer's disease, is unable to comment on those who lay claim to his political legacy.
www.salon.com /news/feature/2003/04/14/ron_reagan   (296 words)

  
 Reagan Legacy Project- Current Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: )
We ask to honor Ronald Reagan by placing his image on half of the dimes.
HONORING REAGAN ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH: If you think declaring February 6, as "Ronald Reagan Day" in your state is a good idea, you can read our suggested resolution here and modify it for your state.
To honor one of the last requests of the late Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-GA), we are working to lobby Congress to put Ronald Reagan on the $10 bill.
www.reaganlegacy.org /projects   (501 words)

  
 Ronald Reagan High School
Due to a new teacher web system and corresponding changes to the Reagan Web Site, users will need to download the latest version of the Flash Player from Macromedia/Adobe.
To manage the Bush and Reagan student population growth, the district will be limiting the enrollment of students who are new residents in the Bush and Reagan attendance areas, effective at midnight on April 30, 2006.
No current residents of the Bush or Reagan attendance areas will be affected by the enrollment cap.
www.neisd.net /reagan   (167 words)

  
 Home Page
CORONADO, Calif. (NNS) -- USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) returned to Naval Air Station North Island Oct. 31 following sea trials, which allowed the ship and crew to finish the six-month planned incremental availability (PIA) period one day ahead of schedule.
Two USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Sailors have been selected to participate in the Syracuse University photojournalism program
Limited group tours are currently available for JROTC, high school students, reunion groups, etc. The ship is not scheduling public, private or family tours at this time.
www.reagan.navy.mil   (223 words)

  
 Ronald Reagan - 39th President of the United States
Ronald Reagan - 39th President of the United States
Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair : The Politics of Presidential Recovery
Reagan's God and Country : A President's Moral Compass: His Beliefs on God, Religious Freedom, the Sanctity of Life, and More
www.presidentsusa.net /reagan.html   (295 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: POTUS
From a PBS broadcast of the same name, this essay excerpt by Peggy Noonan discusses some of the issues and events that molded Reagan.
President Reagan's Speech on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative (1993)
At 69 years old, Reagan was the oldest elected president.
www.ipl.org /div/potus/rwreagan.html   (603 words)

  
 Reagan National Airport
Welcome to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport located in Arlington County, Virginia.
Motorists who are planning to drive and park at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport should check parking availability before traveling to the airport.
If you can spare 3 1/2 to 4 hours a week and would like to help air travelers, please call 703-417-3975 for National or 703-572-7350 for Dulles to learn more about this program, or visit www.travelersaid.org to find out more about airport volunteering.
www.mwaa.com /national   (427 words)

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