Ronald_Wilson_Reagan

3?st PresidentOfTheUnitedStates. Longest lived president at age 90 in 2001.

Ronald Reagan began his political life as a staunch New Deal / Franklin D. Roosevelt supportor. He gradually became a staunch anti-communist. He was elected governor of California and elected president in 1980 and 1984.

He was:

• anti-communist
• in favor of tax cuts
• in favor of smaller government
• supportive of small business
• supportive of individual liberties

He is credited with:

• defeating the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries
• lowering taxes
• creating the Earned Income Credit - so that his tax cut would be passed
• rebuilding the military - this caused the Soviet Union to go bankrupt trying to keep up its military

He was the first divorced person to be elected president.

He is married to Nancy Reagan.

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