O 7yhzjvtodqcgrxo

Ronald Reagan an actor who became a president.

By fred412

  • Birth

    Birth
    <a href='http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001654/bio' > Ronald Wilson Reagan is born in Tampico, Illinois, the second of two sons to John (Jack) and Nelle Reagan.

  • Saves drowning man.

    Saves drowning man.
    World History Project Ronald Reagan working as a life guard saves 19 swimmers. Supposing he had tried to save the life of a 20th who, struggling wildly, momentarily knocked out the future President so that he too started to drown and, losing consciousness.

  • College life as a football payer and an actor.

    College life as a football payer and an actor.
    EurekaReagan enrolls in Eureka College, a small Christian college near Peoria, Illinois. Although never a model student (he graduated with a "C" average), Reagan is successful as both an actor and a football player.

  • Acting career

    Acting career
    <a href='http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123957/1940-census-Ronald-Reagans-life-5-000-year-actor-revealed.html' >Reagan stars as Notre Dame football legend George Gipp in "Knute Rockne, All American." He earns the nickname "the Gipper" from this role.

  • The army and film propaganda.

    The army and film propaganda.
    <a href='https://reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/reference/military.html' >U.S. at war. Reagan drafted into the army. Nearsighted vision keeps him away from the front. He is assigned to the Motion Picture Army Unit in Culver City to make training and propaganda films.

  • General Electric.

    General Electric.
    <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_Theater' >Reagan is hired by General Electric. For the next eight years he will host "G.E. Theater" on television every Sunday evening. The job also requires him to make celebrity appearances at G.E. plants. Reagan receives a political education rarely available to politicians. He hones his political ideas, as his speeches increasingly discuss government’s encroachment on individual freedom.

  • Governor of California

    Governor of California
    <a href='http://www.efootage.com/stock-footage/86257/Reagan_Sworn_In_As_Governor_Of_California_-_HD/' >Reagan is sworn in as governor of California. He nherits a $200 million deficit in a state where the governor is required by Constitution to submit a balanced budget. Reagan proposes a 10% across-the-board cut. There are both needed cuts and unnecessary, unpopular ones, such as cuts in the mental health system and for the University of California.

  • 40th President of US.

    40th President of US.
    <a href='https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/ronaldreagan' >Reagan is sworn in as the 40th president of the United States. On the same day, Iran releases the 52 remaining hostages who had been held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for 444 days, while Carter was president.

  • 2nd Term

    2nd Term
    <a href='http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/Ronald-Reagan-Reelection-and-second-term.html' >Reagan is sworn in for a second term. At 73 years of age, he is the oldest president ever to be sworn in. In surprise announcement he says he will meet with Konstantin Chernenko.

  • Nuclear power reduced.

    Nuclear power reduced.
    Reagan and Gorbachev sign the INF treaty, which only eliminates 4% of the superpowers’ nuclear arsenals. It is the first U.S.-Soviet treaty to provide for destruction of nuclear weapons and to provide for on-site monitoring of the destruction. Leading Conservatives are critical of the treaty.

  • Death

    Death
    Ronald Reagan dies peacefully at his home in California. At age 93, he is the longest-lived president in American history.