Ronald Reagan
(February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975).
He was born in Tampico, Illinois. He began a career in filmmaking and later television. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.
He was notable amongst post-World War II presidents as being convinced that the Soviet Union could be defeated and not negotiated with. Jeffery W. Knopf, Ph.D. gave encouragement to the East-European citizens opposed to communism. That Reagan had little or no effect in ending the Cold War, the Soviet Union would have collapsed in the end regardless of who was in power. President Harry Truman's policy of containment is also regarded as a force behind the fall of Communism, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan undermined the Soviet system itself.
(February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975).
He was born in Tampico, Illinois. He began a career in filmmaking and later television. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.
He was notable amongst post-World War II presidents as being convinced that the Soviet Union could be defeated and not negotiated with. Jeffery W. Knopf, Ph.D. gave encouragement to the East-European citizens opposed to communism. That Reagan had little or no effect in ending the Cold War, the Soviet Union would have collapsed in the end regardless of who was in power. President Harry Truman's policy of containment is also regarded as a force behind the fall of Communism, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan undermined the Soviet system itself.
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