When the history books come to be written, Ronald Reagan won’t be able to read them. Spitting Image: Bumbledown: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan, Donald Reagan, 1988
As president of the Screen Actors Guild Reagan was right behind his members pushing them on to the witness stand. ibid.
Reagan developed a strategy to stop the nuclear threat by raising the stakes with the Soviet Union. He would expand America’s military might and challenge the Soviet’s faltering economy to keep pace. Ancient Aliens s2e10: Alien Contact, History 2010
Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIP with Reagan, Bush: ‘Call boys’ took midnight tour of White House. The Washington Times 29th June 1989 re Franklin Affair
Doc: Tell me, Future Boy, who’s President of the United States in 1985?
Marty: Ronald Reagan.
Doc: Ronald Reagan? The actor? [rolls eyes] Ha! Then who’s vice-president? Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady? Back to the Future I 1985 starring Michael J Fox & Christopher Lloyd & Lea Thompson & Crispin Glover & Thomas F Wilson & James Tolkan & Donald Fullilove & Claudia Wells & Harry Waters junior et al, director Robert Zemeckis
During the 1980s, the years of Ronald Reagan in the White House, a trail of carnage and grief was blazed across Central America. John Pilger, The War on Democracy, 2007
In August 1980 during the Presidential election campaign, Ronald Reagan said this: ‘To me it’s the height of hypocrisy for the Carter administration to repeatedly tell us how much we owe our Vietnam veterans and then recommend a stingy 10% increase in the GI Bill. We have been shabby in our treatment of those that return. They deserve our gratitude, our respect and our continuing concern. Our war was a noble cause.’ In March 1981 President Reagan asked Congress to cut programs especially designed to help Vietnam veterans find jobs, finish their education and be treated for drug addiction and alcoholism. John Pilger, Heroes!
The Ronald Reagan missile test site. John Pilger, The Coming War on China ***** ITV 2016
Reagan: The facts never quite mattered if there was a good punchline. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States VIII: Reagan, Gorbachev & Third World: Rise of the Right, Showtime 2013
Reagan left behind a bloody trail of death and destruction. ibid.
The 15,000 Contra army employing kidnapping, torture, rape and murder targeted health clinics, schools, agricultural co-operatives, bridges and power stations. ibid.
He [Reagan] went so far as to call the Contras ‘the moral equivalents of our founding fathers’. ibid.
He [Reagan] spent enormous sums on the military while cutting social programs to the poor. He reduced taxes on the wealthy. ibid.
But Ronald Reagan at the least let the chance to rid the world of nuclear weapons slip through his fingers because he wouldn’t let go of a space fantasy. ibid.
Reagan hadn’t wanted him [Bush senior] on the ticket ... Bush appealed to voters’ racism and fear of crime. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States IX: Bush and Clinton – American Triumphalism – New World Order
The Reagan administration had cozied up during the Iran war to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, turning a blind eye to his repeated use of chemical weapons, sometimes against his own people. Made in part from US-supplied chemicals. ibid.
Reagan ... was most definitely a global empire builder, a servant of the corporatocracy ... He would cater to the men who shuttled back and forth from corporate CEO offices to bank boards and into the halls of government. He would serve the men who appeared to serve him but who in fact ran the government – men like Vice President George H W Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Richard Cheney, Richard Helms, and Robert McNamara. He would advocate what those men wanted: an America that controlled the world and all its resources, a world that answered to the commands of that America, a US military that would enforce the rules as they were written by America, and an international trade and banking system that supported America as CEO of the global empire. John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Arms for hostages ... Why was the Reagan administration so willing to sell arms to a country so openly hostile to America? America’s Book of Secrets: Presidential Cover-Ups s2e7, H2 2014
Nicaragua: Reagan believed strongly that the Contras deserved American funding and support. Any such funding had been banned by Congress. ibid.
In the end several high ranking members of the Reagan administration were either indicted, convicted, or had their careers for ever tarnished by the affair and the cover-up ... directed by George H W Bush. ibid.
Schmidt: You could be the party’s next Ronald Reagan.
Palin: Jesse. He’s my hero. Game Change 2012 starring Julianne Moore & Woody Harrelson & Ed Harris & Peter MacNicol & Jamey Sheridan & Sarah Paulson & Ron Livingston & Melissa Farman & Kevin Bigley et all, director Jay Roach
Reagan: he would preside over a shift of power away from Congress and back to the Executive mansion. Ultimate Guide to the Presidents: Mantle of Power 1965-2013, History 2013
A word about the President – for seven and a half years I’ve worked alongside him. And I’m proud to have been his partner. And we’ve had triumphs. We made some mistakes. We’ve had some sex … setbacks. George H W Bush
In 1980 Ronald Reagan sent the CIA into Afghanistan. Their secret mission was to fund, train and arm the Mujahideen, a band of Islamic Afghani fighters. They were at war with the Soviet-backed People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan. The CIA was told to crush the Soviet force by any means possible. Secrets of the CIA, 2006
In the course of hundreds of interviews in the US, Europe and the Middle East I’ve been told repeatedly that individuals associated with the Reagan campaign of 1980 met secretly with Iranian officials to delay the release of the American hostages until after the presidential election. For this favor, Iran was rewarded with a substantial supply of arms from Israel. Gary Sick, Congressional evidence 5th February 1992
The United States had defied its own embargo on arms to Iran. Ronald Reagan was offering weapons to the Ayatollah Khomeini in return for the release of American hostages. The President went on television to deny it. Bill Moyers, The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, 1987
Take this man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency. Molly Ivins
Ronald Reagan, the President who never told bad news to the American people. Garrison Keillor, We Are Still Married, 1989
Ronald Reagan … is attempting a great breakthrough in political technology – he has been perfecting the Teflon-coated Presidency. He sees to it that nothing sticks to him. Patricia Schroeder, speech US House of Representatives 2nd August 1983
Reagan was able to project a sense of resiliency, of optimism, that he was going to be OK. Matthew Dallek, author The Right Moment
After Reagan’s election there was an attempt on his life, just sixty-nine days into office. Astounding that Bush once again would be connected. Alex Jones, Invisible Empire, A New World Order Defined, 2010
After eight years of secret wars, covertly sponsored murder and assassination had advanced globalised interests. And allowed Bush to achieve his life-long dream by becoming the 43rd president of the United States. ibid.
Ronald Wilson Reagan born on 6th February 1911 ... Like his mother the 11-year-old found a source of hope and comfort in the Disciples of Christ. Reagan (documentary)
May 1937: After becoming a radio personality in Iowa, Ronald Reagan was now in Hollywood following his high-school dream of becoming an actor. ibid.
A liberal democrat he was also beginning to merge his profession with a passion for politics by taking a more active role in his union – the Screen Actors Guild. ibid.
Ronald Reagan’s political ascent was born out of America’s fear of communism that followed the Second World War. ibid.
Reagan and Wyman’s eight-year marriage ended in divorce on 28th June 1948. ibid.
At the same time a 30-year-old actress named Nancy Davis was dealing with her own crisis ... She reached out to Reagan. ibid.
The seventy-year-old Ronald Reagan had a bullet lodged in his chest less than an inch from his heart. ibid.
Reagan was the host of a TV series called General Electric Theater. ibid.
Hours after the assassination attempt on President Reagan new details were emerging. The would-be assassin, John Hinckley junior, claimed that he wanted to kill the president to impress actress Jodie Foster who he had never even met. ibid.