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  • That is probably one of the most highly subjective questions it is possible to ask. I'm not weighing in, but I can't wait to see the conversation this starts. . +5 for sheer courage.
  • If you're not kidding, you need to crack open a history text. Reagan was the 40th president of the United States. Ya' know that one high school football game that worn-out, middle-aged men talk about as thought it were their greatest achievement? That's kinda how Republicans talk about Reagan.
  • Only the greatest President of the 20th Century. (In my opinion anyway)
  • You must be quite young. Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States in 1980 (I remember because that was my first election) He followed Jimmy Carter. He was also the Gov. of California aa well as an actor. He, in my opinion was awesome and I would sleep much better at night if he were in office now. Here is a link you can check out too. It is a really good site loaded with info for you. http://www.ronaldreagan.com/
  • are you from another country? 'cause if you're not, this has to be a joke, right? i don't care how old you are, no u.s. american could be that clueless... could they?
  • not to be a smart ass but does everyone who uses this site 1 not know how to use google search 2 not know how to read the found google search 3 just want to ask obvious question to see their text on-line?? you choose
  • This is a joke right? Even people in Ethiopia know this. LOL.
  • You're kidding, right? Of course you're kidding.
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  • he was one of America's greatest presidents, when feorign bowers started something he got out the big stick and told'em "come get some!" he also over saw the end of the "cold war" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan
  • He was a Jedi Master who single handedly brought down the Evil Empire. DUH!
  • The US President from 1981 to 1989.
  • What do they teach younglings in school these days?? Even we learned and/or knew of PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan in school here in the UK Oh and another fact about him was he used to be an actor before he ran for Office!
  • Much more damaging to the president's political fortunes was a steep recession that began late in 1981 and soon became the most severe since the Great Depression. Reagan's economic policies were not responsible for the downturn; few of them had yet had a chance to have an impact on the economy. But the administration did little to fight the recession once it began. Reagan took his lead in part from Paul Volcker, the strong-willed chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (appointed by Jimmy Carter), who considered inflation a more serious threat to the economy than recession. Volcker's policies of high interest rates had been one of many causes of the recession, and his slowness to reduce the rates was one reason the recession became so severe. The recession was particularly devastating to American industry. Manufacturers had been suffering from the high interest rates for several years. High rates made it difficult to borrow and invest; they also made the dollar expensive in world markets and sharply reduced American exports. The nation's trade deficit rose from $25 billion in 1980 to $111 billion in 1984. Once the recession began, businesses closed plants and eliminated hundreds of thousands of jobs. Unemployment in 1982 reached 9.7 percent, its highest point in more than forty years. Farmers, even more dependent on exports than manufacturers, fared worse. Hundreds of thousands of them lost their land in the course of the 1980s. Reagan expressed sympathy for victims of the recession, but he never seriously considered changing course. He supported Volcker's commitment to the anti-inflation strategy even as the economy slid further downward. He refused to alter his economic program, insisting that if the nation would "stay the course" it would emerge healthier and more prosperous at the end. And in fact, the recession lifted more rapidly and impressively than almost anyone had predicted. By the end of 1983, unemployment had fallen to 8.3 percent, and it continued to decline for the next five years. The gross national product had grown 3.6 percent in a year, the largest increase in nearly a decade. Inflation had fallen to below 5 percent. The economy continued to grow, and both inflation and unemployment remained low (at least by the more pessimistic standards the nation seemed to have accepted) for the rest of the decade. The recovery was a result of many factors. The Federal Reserve finally eased interest rates early in 1983. A worldwide "energy glut" and the virtual collapse of the powerful cartel of Middle Eastern oil producers stopped the upward spiral of energy prices that had done so much to fuel inflation and inhibit economic growth in the 1970s. And the staggering levels of deficit spending pumped billions of dollars into the sagging economy. Reagan's policies had not worked as their initial advocates had expected, and much of his administration's contribution to the economic recovery was inadvertent. The recovery itself, moreover, was less robust than the major economic indicators revealed. The benefits of the economic growth flowed disproportionately to those in the upper income categories, and the boom did not create jobs or increase incomes for working-class and lower-middle-class people in any way comparable to what earlier booms had done. The poverty rate not only failed to decline, but actually rose in the 1980s from its levels of the 1970s. But these problems became Read more: http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/Ronald-Reagan-Domestic-policy.html#ixzz0VBVA8eSK Read more: http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/Ronald-Reagan-Domestic-policy.html#ixzz0VBVA9vSK
  • are you that bored? get a life...
  • are you serious? i live in australia, i was born LONG AFTER he left office He was a US Presidnet.
  • Someone else asked the question here on AB : I'm from another planet. Do you believe me? I think he's a relative of you....
  • I know he did some acting early on in his life. Not sure what he got up to after that though.

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