Ronald Reagan: biografi og politisk karriere

Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico in Illinois. His parents’ names were Nelle and John Reagan. He attended high school in a village close Dixon and then at Eureka College, where he studied economic and sociology. After graduation he became a radio sports announcer. Under his career he won in a screen test in 1937, he won a contract in Hollywood. That period in his live that where spread over two decades, he appeared in 53 films. He married the actress Jane Wyman and got two children Michael and Maureen, Maureen passed away in 2001. In 1952 he married Nancy Davis, who also were an actress and got also two children with her, Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott. Ronald Reagan became (sworn in as?) president of the Screen Actors Guild. And he became involved in disagreement of the issue of Communism in the film industry. His before liberal political views changed to conservative and Ronald toured the country as a television host and became a spokesman for conservatism. In 1966 he was elected as Governor of California by an amount of a million votes and was re-elected in 1970. Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980 and chose George Bush as his running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations Ambassador. The American was troubled by the rise of the price and the year-long imprisonment of Americans in Iran and sworn the republican Ronald Reagan in as president, he won with 489 electoral votes to 49 for the president candidate Jimmy Carter. It was January 20. 1981 Reagan took office and only 69 days after he was shot by a wannabe assassin because his popularity was grown very fast, but survived. Reagan made legislation there could raise op the economic growth, increase the employment and strength the national defence. He started at try of increase cutting taxes and government expenditures and refused to change it, when a strengthening of the national defence would cost a lot of money. Ronald Reagan won a second term as president in 1984 over the Democratic candidates Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro. In 1986 he obtained a revision of income tax code, which eliminated many deductions and exempted millions of people with low incomes. At the end of his administration, where the nation enjoying the longest recorded period of peacetime wealth without recession or depression. In foreign policy tried Reagan to obtain “peace through strength” During his two terms he enlarged defence spending 35 percent, but sought to improve relations with the Soviet Union. Where he has with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev negotiated a treaty, there would remove intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Other military act Reagan has made is to declare war against international terrorism, to send American bomb planes against Libyan after evidence came out, that Libyan were involved in an attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub. Overall has Reagan made a restoration of wealth and the aim of peace through strength to seem to be within reach. Ronald Reagan died June the 5. 2004.