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Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
40th president of the
United States 1981-1989

Ronald Reagan
undated
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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.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/
opinion/ronald-reagan-legacy.html
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
Photograph: Terry Ashe
Life Images
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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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
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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