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His parents, John Edward Reagan and Neilly Wilson Reagan, were descendants of English, Irish and Scottish immigrants. In Tampico, Father Ronald had a shoe store. In the year, the whole family moved to the town of Dixon. There Ronald Reagan studied at higher education, he graduated from it in the year. At that time, the future president was fond of acting and sports. When Ronald was 15 years old, he got a rescuer for the city beach.

He worked there every summer for seven years in a row, collecting money to study at college. In the year, Reagan graduated from college, where he studied sociology and economics. In the educational institution, Ronald was in the student fraternity of Tau Kappe Epsilon, headed the organization of student self -government, and also played sports and played at the Student Theater. The Hollywood career after the college for five years, Reagan worked as a sports commentator on radio stations in Iowa.

In the year, Ronald went to Hollywood, where he concluded a contract for seven years with the Warner Brothers film studio. In subsequent years, he starred a lot - Reagan filmography has more than 50 films. Reagan was an active participant in the year of the Guild of Film Akaters of the United States, he even became part of her rule. From a year he was the president of the organization.

Ronald Reagan also graduated from correspondence military courses, after which he was included in the army reserve. So he received the lieutenant rank and enrolled in the cavalry regiment, but because of poor vision he was released from military service abroad. However, in X his views changed, and he began to support the elected campaigns of the Republicans of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

In the year, Reagan was fired from General Electric, where he worked after the acting career was completed, and two years later Ronald took part in the presidential campaign of Barry Goldaoter. His famous speech “Time to choose” helped to raise a million dollars to the candidate, and also made a great impression on the California Republicans. The Governor of California in the year Reagan's candidacy was nominated for the post of Governor of California.

As a result, the politician won the election, and on January 3, he took the oath. Soon after taking office, Reagan participated in the US presidential race of the year. According to its results, he took third place - after Rockefeller and Nixon. In the year, Reagan was re -elected for a second term for another five years.

While working at this post, the political views of the former actor, which he continued to adhere to the US president, were finally formed. Reagan advocated a decrease in state control over the economy and fought with high taxes of the federal government. Ronald Reagan considered the signing of the law as the governor’s mistake, according to which the authorities allowed abortion for medical reasons.

Also, during his governorship in May, with the help of the National Guard, student protests in Berkeley, which went down in history as a “bloody Thursday”, were suppressed. In the year, he again nominated the presidential presidential election, and this time he won. In the first half of Ronald Reagan, Soviet-American relations worsened. The President-Republican even called the USSR the Evil Empire.

But, according to the Americans, President Reagan was an outstanding leader. US residents believe that it was he who laid the foundations for the end of the Cold War and contributed to the collapse of socialist states. This happened when the president left the hotel in Washington. One of the bullets hit the lung, the rest wounded the people who accompanied him. No one died that day.

Reagan was operated on, and the president quickly recovered. The shooter - John Hinkley - was recognized as mentally ill and sent to the clinic. The president also promoted the idea of ​​increasing expenses for the military complex. The President pursued a special economic policy, which was called "Reaganomics." It implied low taxation, a decrease in state regulation and a free market economy.

It was assumed that thanks to a decrease in taxes, private individuals and enterprises will have more money for investment and development, which will lead to economic growth and increase in the number of jobs in the United States. The unemployment rate also fell, jobs appeared for 18 million people. However, his supporters argued that in this way the politician advocated protecting the interests of the United States.

In October, the US forces invaded Grenada-a tiny island state in the southeast of the Caribbean. Four years before, there was a coup ditch, as a result of which the authorities passed to the independent Marxist-Leninist government. President Reagan openly accused Grenada in the construction of the Soviet-Cuban military base, which poses a threat to the United States.

The operation was called the “flash of rage” and became the first US large military operation after the Vietnamese war. The battles lasted several days, and after the appointment of a new government, the Americans left Grenada. Negotiations devoted to the issue of nuclear disarmament.Two years later, politicians signed a historical agreement on the elimination of the nuclear weapons of the middle radius of action.

His first wife from the year was the Hollywood star Jane Wayman. The couple had two children: the daughter of Maurin and the adoptive son of Michael. In the year, Reagan married actress Nancy Davis. In this marriage, he had a daughter Patricia and son Ronald Prescott. The cause of death was inflammation of the lungs against the background of Alzheimer's disease, as well as advanced age.

Reagan was buried in California at the Presidential Library in Simi-Walley. The most famous of the phrases attributed to him sound like this: "People do not begin wars, governments do it." But I came to the conclusion that she has much more in common with the first. ” It is characteristic that the second such politician - Donald Trump, also the Republican, the owner of the Golden Globe in the year of Reagan awarded the Golden Globe Award.

And three years later, his personalized star on the Alley of Glory in Hollywood, President Reagan, received several state awards: the presidential freedom medal, the gold medal of Congress, the Japanese Order of Chrysanthemum, as well as the Big Cross of the Ban of the British from the Britain and the ship in honor of Reagan named the National Airport in the capital of the United States.

There is also an aircraft carrier "Ronald Reagan" also read.