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Manhattan Mercury
April 27, 2018
In a century-old house in Reykjavik, Iceland, President Ronald Reagan and his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, were discussing ways to curb nuclear weapons. Suddenly, their talks took a different and stunning turn. “It would be fine with me if we eliminated all nuclear weapons,” Reagan reportedlyÃâà...
News & Observer (blog)
April 27, 2018
Ronald Reagan showed me that you could be both.” Reagan was considerate not only to the stream of high profile visitors to his office, such as Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Mother Teresa, she said, but he would treat the janitor would the sameÃâà...
HuffPost
April 27, 2018
Chelsea Clinton stood up for what she believed was right even as a preschooler, she revealed on Wednesday's broadcast of “The Late Late Show.” The former first daughter recalled writing to then-President Ronald Reagan when she was 5 years old to warn him that the Nazis in the hit musical movie “TheÃâà...
Truthdig
April 24, 2018
It's possible to imagine that, somewhere, Ronald Reagan is weeping. This episode speaks to a larger question: that the corruption of American conservatism is the primary cause of our inability to have constructive debates that move us to resolve issues rather than ignore them. The ongoing frustration ofÃâà...
Community Impact Newspaper
April 19, 2018
When the developer of the commercial project Arbor Park in Cedar Park purchased land on the corner of Parmer Lane/Ronald Reagan Boulevard and RM 1431 about eight years ago, the project's developer, Matt Kenyon, estimated about 5,000 cars traveled through the intersection daily. He said thatÃâà...
TMZ
April 4, 2018
Mike Epps says Ronald Reagan was probably only able to get away with turning off his hearing aid around his wife, Nancy, because she was white. We'll let him explain. We got the comedian Tuesday night at Mastro's where we chatted about a newly released book about President Reagan that claims he'dÃâà...
The Cut
April 4, 2018
Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Photo: Photo courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidental Library/Getty Images. According to a new book about Nancy Reagan's life, former president Ronald Reagan used to turn off his hearing aids during dinner to tune out whatever his wife was saying — probably somethingÃâà...
OCRegister
April 4, 2018
Ronald Reagan and his wife, actress Nancy Davis, acknowledge victory for the Republican nomination for governor of California on June 8, 1966 in Los Angeles at The Ambassador Hotel. The 54-year-old actor promised a campaign calculated to win votes from both Democrats and Republicans. ReaganÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
April 4, 2018
... but powerful figure in American history—including her long-lasting friendships with Britain's royal family, and her tendency to chattiness so extreme that her otherwise adoring husband, President Ronald Reagan, sometimes turned off his hearing aids at dinner. “[Nancy Reagan] was no cardboard cutout.
CLNS Media (blog)
April 4, 2018
In the famed words of Lisa Simpson, how can America be broke under President Donald Trump? “It can, and it is,“ said David Stockman on Grant's Interest Rate Observer Radio. “And it's been heading in that direction for the last 40 years.” Stockman, who was a three-term Congressman from MichiganÃâà...
OCRegister
April 3, 2018
Ronald Reagan and his wife, actress Nancy Davis, acknowledge victory for the Republican nomination for governor of California on June 8, 1966 in Los Angeles at The Ambassador Hotel. The 54-year-old actor promised a campaign calculated to win votes from both Democrats and Republicans. ReaganÃâà...
Burlington Times News
March 26, 2018
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John W. Hinckley, Jr.; also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and a District of Columbia police officer, Thomas Delahanty.
OZY
March 19, 2018
In speeches, U.S. President Ronald Reagan often referred to pornography as a “form of pollution” and pledged to his conservative supporters that he would work to clean up such “hazardous-waste sites” (and that was a good decade before the internet). During the 1960s and '70s, Reagan argued, AmericaÃâà...
www.brproud.com
March 9, 2018
BATON ROUGE, La. (LOCAL 33) (FOX 44) - Three top leaders of the NAACP will speak at the Ronald Reagan Newsmaker Luncheon Tuesday as part of an on-going dialogue between black leaders and Republican leaders in the Baton Rouge area. State NAACP president Mike McClanahan, stateÃâà...
WHYY
March 9, 2018
Ron Reagan, son of late former President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan speaks during the funeral service for the former First Lady at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Friday, March 11, 2016, in Simi Valley, calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong). I've been traveling all week, catching news on the fly, butÃâà...
Politico
March 8, 2018
President Ronald Reagan, speaking on this day in 1983 at the convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, branded the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” further cooling already chilly relations between the White House and the Kremlin. “In your discussions of the nuclear freezeÃâà...
Mintpress News
March 7, 2018
Coverage of the USS Ronald Reagan has been astoundingly limited, wrote Der Spiegel in a February 2015 story. Since then, nothing much has changed. The German magazine was referring to the saga of the American Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose crew pitched in to help victims ofÃâà...
LA Daily News
March 5, 2018
Nancy Davis Reagan, the wife of the late President Ronald Reagan, died two years ago at her home in Los Angeles on March 6, 2016. She was 94. The former first lady will perhaps be best remembered for her loyalty to her husband. She became fiercely protective of him after a 1981 assassination attemptÃâà...
The Livingston Enterprise
March 5, 2018
Former President Ronald Reagan is hands down the most electorally successful American politician of the post-World War II era. As the outsider nominee of the nation's then-decidedly minority party, nobody has ever come close to matching his back-to-back 44-state and 49-state landslide White House victories.
POLITICO Magazine
February 27, 2018
It had been a busy week for President Ronald Reagan, and I was expecting a low-key evening watching a movie at Camp David with him and Nancy Reagan. What I wasn't expecting was for that movie to yield a little insight into Reagan's nostalgia, and the force that pulled him out of it and onward. Nor did IÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
February 26, 2018
27, author and former White House aide Mark Weinberg reveals that former president Ronald Reagan, a former actor, was always “bothered” by the fact that he was not given an honorary Oscar. And, as his retirement schedule was so dull, Mrs. Reagan invited Tom Cruise to her “Ronnie's” California officesÃâà...
AZCentral.com
February 11, 2018
In an interview on Breitbart News' satellite radio show, Ward said: “In 1986, Ronald Reagan — great president, amazing conservative, lover of liberty and of America — granted amnesty; and Ed Rollins, who is helping me with my campaign, told me that President Reagan's biggest regret as president wasÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 6, 2018
California Gov. Jerry Brown has declared Feb. 6 Ronald Reagan Day in honor of the 107th anniversary of the former U.S. president and governor's birth. Brown said Californians should recognize Reagan's diplomatic achievements with the former Soviet Union and the economic recovery that occurred during his presidencyÃâà...
Politico
February 5, 2018
On this day in 1911, Ronald Reagan, the nation's 40th president, was born in an apartment on the second floor of a commercial building in Tampico, Illinois. His father, Jack, the grandson of Irish Catholic immigrants, was a salesman, while his mother, Nelle, had Scots and English ancestors. Reagan's fatherÃâà...
CNBC
December 31, 1999
Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan before him, is an outside-the-beltway president. That recently prompted longtime market watcher Ralph Acampora to investigate whether the two had anything else in common. What he found could be a warning to the stock market. "Ronald Reagan had a six-monthÃâà...
SpaceCoastDaily.com
December 31, 1999
ABOVE VIDEO: On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley tried to kill President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley shot the president, and his press secretary Jim Brady. This footage begins with Reagan leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel, and ends with Brady's hospital release. MARCH 30, 1981 (SOFREP) – Shots fromÃâà...
PennLive.com
December 31, 1999
As he was walking to his limousine at 2:27 p.m. from the side entrance on Connecticut Avenue, John Hinckley Jr., 25, who was armed with a .22 caliber revolver, began shooting. Hinckley's first shot hit White House Press Secretary James Brady in the head. Brady was left paralyzed. Also wounded wereÃâà...
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