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Ronald Reagan   1911-2004

 

40th president of the United States   1981-1989

 

 

 

 

Ronald Reagan

 

undated

 

Photograph: Bettmann Archive

Getty Images

 

When Did Republicans Start Hating Facts?

A straight line runs from Reagan to the Trump dead-enders.

NYT

Dec. 14, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/
opinion/republicans-reagan-disinformation.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ronald Reagan campaigning in 1976.

 

Photograph: George Rose

Getty Images

 

What Today’s Republicans Don’t Get About Reagan

NYT

FEB. 24, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/
opinion/what-todays-republicans-dont-get-about-reagan.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nancy Reagan Dies at 94

Video

By AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER    NYT    Mar. 6, 2016 | 2:36

 

Mrs. Reagan was a trusted adviser to her husband,

President Ronald Reagan,

and a fierce guardian of his image.

She championed efforts

to fight drug abuse and Alzheimer’s disease.

http://www.nytimes.com/video/obituaries/100000004255389/nancy-reagan-dies-at-94.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nancy (Anne Frances) Reagan    1921-2016

 

actor and former US first lady

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/06/nancy-reagan

 

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/11/
470141514/clintons-comments-on-nancy-reagan-and-hiv-aids-cause-an-uproar

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/11/
470097052/first-ladies-pay-their-respects-at-funeral-for-nancy-reagan

 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/11/us/
politics/nancy-reagan-most-memorable-moments.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/us/
mourning-nancy-reagan-and-looking-back-at-the-class-and-dignity-of-an-era.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/08/
469602334/national-portrait-gallery-honors-nancy-reagan-funeral-is-friday

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/08/
469560467/cold-wars-and-hot-tea-nancy-reagan-s-tea-summit-with-raisa-gorbachev

 

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/06/
139726039/nancy-reagan-presidents-fiercest-protector-dies-at-94

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/us/
nancy-reagan-a-stylish-and-influential-first-lady-dies-at-94.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/video/obituaries/100000004255389/
nancy-reagan-dies-at-94.html - Mar. 6, 2016

 

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/03/06/
fashion/nancy-reagan-style/s/20160306NANCYREAGAN-STYLE-slide-GBB8.html

 

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/06/
469420705/colin-powell-gop-candidates-belittling-the-country-and-presidency

 

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/06/
nancy-reagan

 

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2016/mar/06/
nancy-reagan-1921-2016-a-life-in-pictures

 

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/06/
nancy-reagan-former-first-lady-dies-94

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

President Reagan and Larry Speakes in 1984,

telling reporters that a briefing was over.

 

Photograph: Scott Stewart

Associated Press

 

Larry Speakes, Public Face of Reagan Era, Dies at 74

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR        NYT        JAN. 10, 2014

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/
us/larry-speakes-public-face-of-reagan-era-dies-at-74.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saudi Arabia and the United States

worked together to support the mujahedeen,

the Afghan fighters whose representatives

met President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office in 1983,

in their fight against the Soviet occupation.

 

Photograph: White House

 

Saudis and Extremism: ‘Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters’

By SCOTT SHANE        NYT        AUG. 25, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/
world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-islam.html
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

President Ronald Reagan riding his horse

El Alamein at Rancho Del Cielo.

By Pete Souza

April 8, 1986

 

1999 print from the original color negative.

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library,

National Archives and Records Administration.

(C28233-25A)

https://www.archives.gov/files/press/press-kits/picturing-the-century-photos/
reagan-on-horseback.jpg 

 

Picturing the Century:

One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives

Eight Portfolios from Part II

https://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/picturing-the-century-photos/
gallery2.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actor Ronald Reagan

loads his gun

in the 1953 western film Law and Order,

in which Reagan plays a retired US marshall

who can't hang up his holster.

 

Photograph: AP/Universal

https://www.theguardian.com/gall/
0,8542,1233194,00.html 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ronald Wilson Reagan    1911-2004

 

40th President of the United States    1981-1989

 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
ronald-reagan

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/07/
guardianobituaries.past

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/07/
patti-davis-ronald-reagan-daughter-nancy-actor

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/09/
1181285958/james-watt-reagan-interior-secretary-dies

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/
us/politics/james-watt-dead.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/
opinion/guns-highland-park-ronald-reagan.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/
1105370016/john-hinckley-who-tried-to-assassinate-president-reagan-
is-granted-full-release

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/
us/politics/david-c-macmichael-dead.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/
arts/television/fiasco-review.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/29/
ronald-reagan-assassination-attempt-us-president


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/07/
george-shultz-obituary

 

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/07/
965162112/george-p-shultz-giant-of-20th-century-american-politics-
dies-at-100

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/
obituaries/george-p-shultz-dead.htm

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/
opinion/republicans-reagan-disinformation.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/nov/12/
the-reagans-showtime-docuseries

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/
arts/television/the-reagans-review-showtime.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/
arts/television/the-reagans.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/
books/review/reaganland-rick-perlstein.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/
world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-islam.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24
/opinion/what-todays-republicans-dont-get-about-reagan.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/
us/jerry-parr-secret-service-agent-who-helped-save-reagan-dies-at-85.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/
us/thomas-k-jones-us-arms-negotiator-dies-at-82.html

 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/04/16/
400008182/throwback-thursday-reagan-announces-run-for-president

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/
business/martin-anderson-adviser-to-ronald-reagan-dies-at-78.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/
us/larry-speakes-public-face-of-reagan-era-dies-at-74.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/
opinion/reagan-at-the-wall.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/feb/09/
ronald-reagan-film-documentary

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/02/06/
133448787/assessing-ronald-reagan-at-100

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/
books/28book.html

 

 

 

 

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/RonaldReagan/main.asp

http://www.boston.com/news/specials/obituaries/ronald_reagan/

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/reagan_funeral/index.html

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040614/reagan_remembered/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/reagan/0,14650,1234012,00.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/10/usa.comment 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1981/jan/21/usa.alexbrummer 

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2747709

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2747437

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2743405

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/08/uselections2004.usa 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/08/usa.comment 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/08/usa.comment1

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/07/usa.sarahleft 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1233194,00.html

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/07/guardianobituaries.past 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/06/usa.paulharris1 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/06/usa.paulharris2 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/07/usa.guardianleaders 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1985/jul/01/syria.ianblack 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1981/mar/31/
usa.alexbrummer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/213195.stm - 6 June 2004

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/7/newsid_3677000/3677918.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/4/newsid_3192000/3192279.stm

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/29/
us/the-shuttle-explosion-reagan-postpones-state-of-union-speech.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1980s

 

USA    Iran    Nicaragua

 

Irangate

 

Ronald Reagan and the 'Iran-Contra' affair

 

Oliver North

 

 

 

 

Time Covers -The 80S

TIME cover 07-20-1987 Lieut. Col. Oliver North.

 

Date taken: July 20, 1987

 

Photographer: Terry Ashe

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=32b38e333c1b4b19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Central American conflict

alarmed Washington

 

One of the most

interesting facets

of Ronald Reagan's presidency

was his apparent obsession

with Central America.

 

President Reagan

became convinced

that the Sandinistas'

1979 victory in Nicaragua

could spark off revolution

throughout the region

and threaten the security

of the United States.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/269619.stm

 

 

 

The scheme, which unfolded

over a two-year period

beginning in late 1985,

started with illegal arms sales

to Iran.

 

Selling weapons to Tehran,

which was at war with Iraq

at the time, had two objectives.

 

One was to enlist

Iran's assistance

in freeing American hostages

being held in Lebanon.

 

Among them

was William Buckley,

the CIA station chief

in Beirut.

 

Buckley

was ultimately killed

by his captors,

though other hostages

were released.

 

In turn, profits from Iran's

purchase at highly inflated prices

for the weapons

— which were routed through Israel —

were used for

the scheme's other objective:

buying arms

for anti-communist rebels

known as Contras

who were fighting to topple

the elected Marxist government

of Nicaragua.

 

Those weapons purchases

were done in defiance

of a congressional ban

on aid to the Contras.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/
674079779/george-h-w-bushs-mixed-legacy-in-a-reagan-era-scandal

 

 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reagan-iran/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/269619.stm

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/
obituaries/george-p-shultz-dead.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/
674079779/george-h-w-bushs-mixed-legacy-in-a-reagan-era-scandal

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/
oliver-north-iran-contra-affair

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/20/
291999738/lawrence-walsh-who-investigated-iran-contra-scandal-dies-at-102

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/01/
on_this_day_in_1987_reagan_adm.html

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/5/
newsid_2772000/2772471.stm - 5 July 1989

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Hinckley Jr.

 

John Hinckley Jr.

(...)

shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981

in a failed assassination attempt,

 

(...)

 

Hinckley was 25 at the time

of the assassination attempt.

 

The son of a wealthy oil family,

he'd already undergone

some psychiatric treatment

before trying to kill the president.

 

On the day of the shooting,

*Reagan had given a speech

at a Washington hotel

and was on his way

into a limousine

when Hinckley pushed a pistol

through a crowd of people

and fired six shots.


In the years leading up to it,

Hinckley became obsessed

with the film Taxi Driver,

and its star, Jodie Foster.

 

Hinckley said he tried

to kill Reagan to impress the actress.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/
1105370016/john-hinckley-who-tried-to-assassinate-president-reagan-is-granted-full-release

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/
1105370016/john-hinckley-who-tried-to-assassinate-president-reagan-is-granted-full-release

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Terrorist attacks on Americans    1979-1988

 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/
cron.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 July 1988

 

US warship shoots down Iranian airliner

 

 

An American naval warship

patrolling in the Persian Gulf

shoots down

an Iranian passenger jet

after apparently mistaking it

for an F-14 fighter.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/
newsid_4678000/4678707.stm

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/
newsid_4678000/4678707.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17 May 1987

 

An Iraqi plane attacks

a US frigate in the Gulf,

killing 37 sailors

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1987/may/19/
iraq.davidhirst

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan. 28, 1986

 

The space shuttle Challenger

blows up 73 seconds after liftoff,

disintegrating over the Atlantic

off central Florida

and killing its crew of seven

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/
science/space/14stever.html

 

 

 

On January 28, 1986,

the Space Shuttle Challenger

and her seven-member crew were lost

when a ruptured O-ring in the right Solid Rocket Booster

caused an explosion soon after launch.

 

This photograph, taken a few seconds after the accident,

shows the Space Shuttle Main Engines and Solid Rocket Booster

exhaust plumes entwined around a ball of gas

from the External Tank.

 

Because shuttle launches had become almost routine

after fifty successful missions,

those watching the shuttle launch in person and on television

found the sight of the explosion

especially shocking and difficult to believe

until NASA confirmed the accident.

http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2004-00012.html

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Challenger_explosion.jpg

added 2 September 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

Primary source

NASA Center: Kennedy Space Center

Image # : 86-HC-220

Date : 01/28/1986

http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2004-00012.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/01/
challenger_disaster_25_years_l.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/
science/space/14stever.html

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/28/
newsid_2506000/2506161.stm

 

https://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/29/
us/the-shuttle-explosion-reagan-postpones-state-of-union-speech.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1986

 

David Jacobsen,

an American hostage held in Beirut

for 17 months by Islamic fundamentalists,

is released

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/fromthearchive/
story/0,12269,1341554,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1985

 

PLO militants hijack

the Achille Lauro

and kill Leon Klinghoffer

 

Mohammed Abu Abbas,

mastermind

of the Achille Lauro hijacking

 

US sets up task force

to handle cruise crisis

 

 

 

The murder of Leon Klinghoffer

was merciless and cruel.

 

He was a 69-year-old New Yorker

on a Mediterranean cruise

with his wife Marilyn in October 1985

when their ship, the Achille Lauro,

was hijacked by four people

from the Palestinian Liberation Front.

 

They held the passengers

and crew hostage.

 

Their demands to release

50 Palestinians in Israeli jails

were not met,

and they were refused permission

to dock in Syria.

 

The hijackers singled out

Leon Klinghoffer.

 

He was Jewish

and in a wheelchair

from a stroke.

 

They shot him

in the head and chest

and threw him overboard.

 

Leon Klinghoffer's death

became a symbol for many

of the costs and fears

of terrorism.

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/15/
732992611/leon-klinghoffer-and-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-in-an-innocent-bystander

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/15/
732992611/leon-klinghoffer-and-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-in-an-innocent-bystander

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2015/10/08/
446974565/30-years-after-their-fathers-murder-klinghoffer-daughters-step-onto-their-own-st

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/21/
357780829/opera-about-1985-achille-lauro-hijacking-draws-protests-at-met

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/10/
iraq.roberttait

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/may/17/
the-death-of-klinghoffer-eno-opera 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/08/
edinburgh2005.arts

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/16/
israel.iraq

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/29/
israel

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1985/oct/14/
usa.italy

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1985/oct/10/
italy.iraq

 

https://www.theguardian.com/fromthearchive/
story/0,12269,1321799,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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