Ronald Reagan Biography
- Title:
- 40th President of the United States
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Good for America?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of July 2, 2010
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- 40th US President, 1981-1989
- Ordered US Air Strikes on Libya, April 15, 1986
- Ordered US Invasion of Grenada, Oct. 25, 1983
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, United Kingdom, 1989
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, Japan, 1989
- Invoked Taft Hartly Act to fire 11,345 striking air traffic controllers, Apr. 5, 1981
- Republican presidential candidate, did not receive party nomination, 1975-1976
- Governor of California, 1967-1975
- Made 53 motion pictures and one TV movie, 1945-1965
- Political career launched in speech for Barry Goldwater, 1964
- Officially changed to Republican Party, 1962
- Campaigned for Richard Nixon for President, 1960
- Campaigned as a Democrat for Eisenhower, 1952, 1956
- President, Screen Actors Guild, 1947
- First Motion Picture Unit, Army Air Force, made over 400 training films, 1942
- Actor, Warner Brothers, 1937-1942
- Radio Announcer, WCO (Davenport, Iowa) & WHO (Des Moines, Iowa), 1932
- Education:
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- BA, Economics and Sociology, Eureka College (IL), 1932
- Other:
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- Died, Los Angeles (CA), June 5, 2004
- Congressional Gold Medal, 2002
- Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1993
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, United Kingdom, 1989
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, Japan, 1989
- Victim of assassination attempt, Mar. 30, 1981
- Born, Tampico (IL), Feb. 6, 1911