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Ronald Reagan

Authored by Michael Pate on June 5th, 2004 at 4:54 PM

Ronald Reagan

But history will remember Reagan as the first Cold War president to preside over eight years of unbroken peace, the first to reach an arms reduction accord with the Soviets, and the American president who helped make it possible for Mikhail Gorbachev to begin the process of restructuring Soviet society. - Stephen Ambrose

Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died today at his home in California. He was 93 years old and had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Reagan, known as “The Great Communicator,” was elected to office in a landslide victory over incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1980 and is credited with revitalizing the country’s stagnant economy and forcing the end of the Cold War (search) during his two terms in office from 1981 to 1989. His charismatic personality and staunch conservatism led the nation in a Republican resurgence that kept the GOP in the White House for 12 years. - Fox News

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How Great Was Ronald Reagan?
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