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President Ronald Reagan presided over and had a hand in lots of of the main major international occasions of the 20 th century - from the cave in of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union to an unheard of resurgence of the U.S. economic system. known as the nice Communicator, he was once reticent while it got here to conversing approximately his personal existence. right here, during this short-form publication, is the tale of 1 of America's maximum presidents.
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Alzheimer’s was allowed to steal so much of my father,” his daughter Patti later said. “Before releasing him into the arms of death . . ” Reagan’s flag-draped coffin was displayed at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, after which it was flown to the Capitol, where his body lay in state for thirty-four hours. More than 100,000 people filed by his casket. His state funeral, under the grand vaults of the National Cathedral, was attended by hundreds of past and current government leaders and other dignitaries from around the world, among them Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Fine,’ Nancy said, 'I’ve got an early call, too. ’ She had her pride, too. m. Three years later, sitting in their favorite booth at the Los Angeles restaurant Chasen’s, he proposed. They married on March 4, 1952, in an understated ceremony attended only by the actor William Holden and his wife, the actress Brenda Marshall. Their first child, Patti, was born in October; their son Ron, six years later. In 1954, with film roles dwindling – he hadn’t made a movie in more than a year - Reagan took a job as the host of television’s General Electric Theater.
At Eureka, Reagan joined a fraternity – Tau Kappa Epsilon – and became involved in politics, protesting faculty layoffs. At the beginning of his sophomore year, he gave Margaret his TKE pin, which meant they were all but officially engaged. He also was eager to get onto the football field. From his sophomore year until he graduated, he played football well enough to be in all but two minutes of every game. Just as Reagan encountered racism in Dixon as a young man, he faced it again as a college football player.