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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan is mentioned in 4,730 articles and has appeared on 48 TIME covers

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Clare Boothe Luce famously said that each President is remembered for a sentence: "He freed the slaves"; "He made the Louisiana Purchase." You have to figure out your sentence, she used to tell John Kennedy, who would nod thoughtfully and then grouse when she left. Ronald Reagan knew, going in, the sentence he wanted, and ... Read More

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California: Ronald for Real

Oct. 7, 1966

(See Cover) He may not have had the most dazzling of Hollywood careers, but—as any late, late television watcher can attest —it was certainly durable. In the course of 50 movies, Ronald Wilson Reagan almost invariably played the grinning gallant, the fall guy who winds up heartbroken, dead broke or plain dead. In King's Row, ...
The All-American President: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)

Jun. 14, 2004 | By NANCY GIBBS

"If he were not the greatest President, he was the best Actor of the Presidency we have ever had." --John Adams, on George Washington America's Presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. But only John Adams ...
Reagan's Rousing Return

Mar. 10, 1980

Reborn in New Hampshire, he looks to more gains in the South He is that crinkly and blandly familiar face from scores of old movies on afternoon TV, that two-time loser for the Republican presidential nomination who has not been elected to any public office for a decade. Ronald Reagan, 69, seemed so complacent and ...
Nation: Meet the Real Ronald Reagan

Oct. 20, 1980

Shaped by his roots, he views the world with his own special optimism TIME Senior Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett, who began reporting on national politics during the 1964 Barry Goldwater campaign, started covering Ronald Reagan in January, and has been able to study him at close hand as he wages his fight for the White ...
That Old Feeling: Where's the Best of Him?

Jun. 16, 2004 | By Richard Corliss

Ronald Reagan spent half his public life in movies and TV. Here's how the so-so actor prepared to become a superb politician