А теперь поговорим о Рональде Рейгане...
Рональд Рейган (6 февраля 1911 — 5 июня 2004) — 40-й президент США (с 1981 по 1989), республиканец.
Был избран президентом на два срока. Преемник Рейгана — Джордж Буш старший, бывший при нём вице-президентом.
" Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). At 69, he was the oldest person ever to be elected President of the United States. Before entering politics, Reagan was a successful "B" Hollywood and television actor, head of the Screen Actors Guild, and a spokesman for General Electric. He was a prominent New Dealer in the 1940s, but by 1960 Reagan had become a Republican conservative. He strongly opposed communism and socialism, and as president he sought fewer regulations, free-trade agreements, welfare cutbacks, and huge tax cuts leading to huge budget deficits and subsequent tax increases labeled as "revenue enhancements" and tax reform.
Reagan is credited with restoring America's power and prosperity after a period of stagflation in the wake of the Watergate scandal and the withdrawal from Vietnam. He rejected Détente and escalated the Cold War with the Soviet Union through a military build-up and a firm foreign policy of "peace through strength," but also negotiatied with Mikhail Gorbachev to shrink both countries' nuclear arsenals and peacefully end the Cold War, although some scholars cite December 26, 1991, as the peaceful end of the Cold War - three years after Reagan's presidency had ended."
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