Hur gammal var ronald regan när han blev vald president
Ronald och Nancy Reagan under presidentkampanjen Som USA:s president tvekade Ronald Reagan aldrig att använda okonventionella metoder. Hans fiende var framförallt kommunismen.
Ronald Reagan
gav han order om att sovjetiska spioner skulle tillåtas stjäla ett ”fixat” dataprogram som, när det började användas i den sovjetiska oljeindustrin. Ronald Wilson Reagan [ a ] February 6, — June 5, was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from to A member of the Republican Party , he became an important figure in the American conservative movement , and his presidency is known as the Reagan era.
Born and raised in Illinois, Reagan graduated from Eureka College in and later worked in radio as a sports broadcaster in Iowa. In , he moved to California where he became a well-known film actor. During his acting career, Reagan twice served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild from to and from to In the s, he began working on television and became a spokesman for General Electric. After being elected governor of California in , he raised the state taxes, turned the state budget deficit into a surplus and implemented harsh crackdowns on university protests.
Following his loss to Gerald Ford in the Republican Party presidential primaries , Reagan won the Republican Party's nomination and then a landslide victory over President Jimmy Carter in the presidential election. In his first term as U. On the world stage, he escalated the arms race , transitioned Cold War policy away from the policies of détente with the Soviet Union , and ordered the invasion of Grenada.
Within the same period, Reagan also survived an assassination attempt , fought public-sector labor unions, expanded the war on drugs , and was slow to respond to the growing AIDS epidemic. In the presidential election , he defeated Carter's former vice president, Walter Mondale , in another landslide victory. Foreign affairs dominated Reagan's second term, including the bombing of Libya , the secret and illegal sale of arms to Iran to fund the Contras , and a more conciliatory approach in talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev culminating in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Reagan left the presidency in with the American economy having seen a significant reduction of inflation, the unemployment rate having fallen, and the U. At the same time, the national debt had nearly tripled since as a result of his cuts in taxes and increased military spending, despite cuts to domestic discretionary spending. Reagan's policies also contributed to the end of the Cold War and the end of Soviet communism.
Historical rankings of U. In , they settled in Dixon, Illinois , [ 18 ] living in a house near the H. Pitney Variety Store Building. Reagan attended Dixon High School , where he developed interests in drama and football. He became student body president and joined a student strike that resulted in the college president's resignation. At the time, his parents' stance on racial questions was unusually progressive in Dixon.
After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology from Eureka College in , [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Reagan took a job in Davenport, Iowa , as a sports broadcaster for four football games in the Big Ten Conference.
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His specialty was creating play-by-play accounts of games using only basic descriptions that the station received by wire as the games were in progress. Reagan arrived at Hollywood in , debuting in Love Is on the Air Reagan, who had a limited acting range, was dissatisfied with the roles he received. With this, Reagan appeared in multiple western films , something that had been denied to him while working at Warner Bros.
Wasserman and Warner Bros. However, to avoid accusations of Reagan being a draft dodger , the studio let him go in April Reagan reported for duty with severe near-sightedness. Reagan became an AAF public relations officer and was subsequently assigned to the 18th AAF Base Unit in Culver City [ 48 ] where he felt that it was "impossible to remove an incompetent or lazy worker" due to what he felt was "the incompetence, the delays, and inefficiencies" of the federal bureaucracy.
Throughout his military service, Reagan produced over training films.
The SAG fought with film producers for the right to receive residual payments , [ 62 ] and on November 16, , the board elected Reagan SAG president for the second time; [ 63 ] he replaced Howard Keel , who had resigned. During this second stint, Reagan managed to secure payments for actors whose theatrical films had been released between and and subsequently televised. The producers were initially required to pay the actors fees, but they ultimately settled instead for providing pensions and paying residuals for films made after She was uninterested in politics, and occasionally recriminated, reconciled and separated with him.
Although Reagan was unprepared, [ 69 ] the divorce was finalized in July Reagan would also remain close to his children. Reagan became the host of MCA Inc. It featured multiple guest stars, [ 75 ] and Ronald and Nancy Reagan, continuing to use her stage name Nancy Davis, acted together in three episodes. Reagan began his political career as a Democrat , viewing Franklin D. Roosevelt as "a true hero". Truman in the presidential election , [ 86 ] and Helen Gahagan Douglas for the U.