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Ronald Reagan
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  • In 1981, on this date, was the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, President Ronald Reagan praised Mobutu as "a voice of good sense and good will."†   (source)
  • The first is an experiment that took place during the 1984 presidential campaign between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale.†   (source)
  • In 1985, President Ronald Reagan reduced funding for it.†   (source)
  • "You know," the student continued, "Ronald Reagan, he's the governor of California and wants to be the next president.†   (source)
  • He blotted out his surroundings for thirty minutes at a time with a fawning profile of the famous candidate who'd just declared his desire to run for president—Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • RONALD REAGAN A STORM LASHED IN FROM THE OCEAN; blasts of wind; the surf at six feet.†   (source)
  • Frank Sinatra became a Republican in the years after John Kennedy's Palm Springs snub and was a well-known supporter of President Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • Both Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan spoke with that accent—Nixon from birth in California, Reagan a transplant from Midwestern Illinois.†   (source)
  • I admired the courage, too, of Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • Ronald Reagan, our fortieth president, once famously said, "As government expands, liberty contracts."†   (source)
  • Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, once famously stated that the only way Earth could ever have a unified government was if it was invaded by aliens.†   (source)
  • They were not going to get me to blow a forty-minute class on Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • Have you ever seen the videotape of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan?†   (source)
  • Ronald Reagan opposed such intolerance in our public life.†   (source)
  • When Disneyland opened in July of 1955 — an event that Ronald Reagan cohosted for ABC — it had food stands run by Welch's, Stouffer's, and Aunt Jemima's, but no McDonald's.†   (source)
  • I was born in late summer 1984, just a few months before Papaw cast his first and only vote for a Republican—Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • In April of 1981, three months after the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, an FTC staff report argued that a ban on ads aimed at children would be impractical, effectively killing the proposal.†   (source)
  • Ronald Reagan is a vapid young drunk.†   (source)
  • He considered many notable Americans to be his friends, including Governor Ronald Reagan, former president Richard Nixon, Gene Autry, Art Linkletter, Lawrence Welk, and Pat Boone.†   (source)
  • They know what's going on in The Great Gatsby, and they know what should be done to Ronald Reagan's rotten administration, too!†   (source)
  • In 1984 he quit his job as a computer salesman and organized his first "success seminar:' The appearance of Ronald Reagan at one of these events soon encouraged other celebrities to endorse Peter Lowe's work.†   (source)
  • Just the day before yesterday—January 28, 1987—the front page of The Globe and Mail gave us a full account of President Ronald Reagan's State of the Union Message.†   (source)
  • Ronald Reagan had not yet numbed the United States, but he had succeeded in putting California to sleep; he described the Vietnam protests as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy."†   (source)
  • When Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, OSHA was already underfunded and understaffed: its 1,300 inspectors were responsible for the safety of more than 5 million workplaces across the country.†   (source)
  • That is what makes what Ronald Reagan would say—two years later, in 1969—so ludicrous: that the Vietnam protests were "giving aid and comfort to the enemy."†   (source)
  • In the following year, in 1969—the year when Ronald Reagan described the Vietnam protests as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy"—there were still half a million Americans in Vietnam I was never one of them.†   (source)
  • There were two bumper stickers on the rear, one which said SPLIT WOOD, NOT ATOMS and one which said RONALD REAGAN SHOT J.R. A very hinny guy, Steve Kemp, the murals and the bumper stickers would make the van easier to identify, and unless he had ditched it, he would almost certainly he spotted before the day was out.†   (source)
  • The Massachusetts goal was $700 million, and Hollywood stars—including Joan Fontaine and Jane Wyman, then the wife of Ronald Reagan—had been trickling into town to add glamour to the festivities.†   (source)
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