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On June 5, 2004, Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died after having Alzheimer's disease for over a decade. Reagan was the first former U.S. president to die in 10 years since Richard Nixon in 1994.
Reagan died of pneumonia, complicated by Alzheimer's, [384] at his home in Los Angeles, on June 5, 2004. [385] President George W. Bush called Reagan's death "a sad hour in the life of America". [384]
Feb 9, 2010 · On June 5, 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, dies after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Jun 6, 2004 · Former US President Ronald Reagan has died at the age of 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He died at home in Los Angeles, where his family were with him. Current US...
- Ronald Reagan’s Childhood and Education
- Ronald Reagan’s Movies and Marriages
- Ronald Reagan, Governor of California
- 1981 Inauguration and Assassination Attempt
- Ronald Reagan’s Domestic Agenda
- Ronald Reagan and Foreign Affairs
- 1984 Reelection
- Ronald Reagan’s Later Years and Death
Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, to Edward “Jack” Reagan (1883-1941), a shoe salesman, and Nelle Wilson Reagan (1883-1962). The family, which included older son Neil Reagan (1908-1996), resided in an apartment that lacked indoor plumbing and running water and was located along the small town’s main street. Re...
In 1937, while in Southern California to cover the ChicagoCubs’ spring training season, Ronald Reagan did a screen test for the Warner Brothers movie studio. The studio signed him to a contract, and that same year he made his film debut in “Love is on the Air,” playing a radio news reporter. Over the next three decades, he appeared in more than 50 ...
In his younger years, Ronald Reagan was a member of the Democratic Partyand campaigned for Democratic candidates; however, his views grew more conservative over time, and in the early 1960s he officially became a Republican. In 1964, Reagan stepped into the national political spotlight when he gave a well-received televised speech for Republican pr...
Ronald Reagan was sworn into office on January 20, 1981. In his inaugural address, Reagan famously said of America’s then-troubled economy, “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem.” After the more informal Carter years, Reagan and his wife Nancy ushered in a new era of glamour in the nation...
On the domestic front, President Ronald Reagan implemented policies to reduce the federal government’s reach into the daily lives and pocketbooks of Americans, including tax cuts intended to spur growth (known as Reaganomics). He also advocated for increases in military spending, reductions in certain social programs and measures to deregulate busi...
In foreign affairs, Ronald Reagan’s first term in office was marked by a massive buildup of U.S. weapons and troops, as well as an escalation of the Cold War (1946-1991) with the Soviet Union, which the president dubbed “the evil empire.” Key to his administration’s foreign policy initiatives was the Reagan Doctrine, under which America provided ai...
In November 1984, Ronald Reagan was reelected in a landslide, defeating Walter Mondale and his running mate Geraldine Ferraro(1935-), the first female vice-presidential candidate from a major U.S. political party. Reagan, who announced it was “morning again in America,” carried 49 out of 50 states in the election and received 525 out of 538 elector...
After leaving the White House in January 1989, Ronald Reagan and his wife returned to California, where they lived in Los Angeles. In 1991, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum opened in Simi Valley, California. In November 1994, Reagan revealed in a handwritten letter to the American people that he had been recently diagnosed with Alz...
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Jun 6, 2004 · Ronald Wilson Reagan, a former film star who became America's 40th president, the oldest to enter the White House but imbued with a youthful optimism rooted in the traditional virtues of a bygone...
Jun 5, 2004 · 5 Jun 2004. The movie star turned politician who forged a conservative revolution that transformed American politics, died on Saturday at the age of 93. His wife, Nancy, and family members had...
