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Undated:
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician who served as the
40th
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency,
he was a
Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd
governor of California from 1967 to 1975.
Reagan was raised in a poor family in small towns of northern
Illinois.
He graduated from
Eureka College in 1932 and worked as a sports announcer on several regional
radio stations. After moving to California in 1937, he found work as an actor
and starred in a few major productions. Reagan was twice elected President of
the
Screen Actors Guild—the labor union for actors—where he worked to root out
Communist influence. In the 1950s, he moved into television and was a
motivational speaker at
General Electric factories. Reagan had been a
Democrat until 1962, when he became a conservative and switched to the
Republican Party. In
1964, Reagan's speech, "A
Time for Choosing", supported
Barry Goldwater's foundering presidential campaign and earned him national
attention as a new conservative spokesman. Building a network of supporters, he
was
elected Governor of California in 1966. As governor, Reagan raised taxes,
turned a state budget deficit to a surplus, challenged the protesters at the
University of California, ordered in
National Guard troops during a period of
protest movements in 1969, and was
re-elected in 1970. He twice ran unsuccessfully for the Republican
presidential nomination, in
1968 and
1976. Four years later in
1980, he won the nomination and then defeated
incumbent
president
Jimmy
Carter. At 69 years, 349 days of age at the time of his
first inauguration, Reagan was the oldest person to have assumed office
until
Donald Trump (aged 70 years, 220 days) in
2017. Reagan faced former vice president
Walter Mondale when he ran for re-election in
1984, and defeated him, winning the most
electoral votes of any U.S. president, 525, or 97.6 percent of the 538 votes
in the Electoral College. This was the
second-most lopsided presidential election in modern U.S. history after
Franklin D. Roosevelt's
1936 victory over
Alfred M. Landon, in which he won 98.5 percent or 523 of the (then-total)
531 electoral votes.[1]
August 10: Did Ronald Reagan Predict a Trump
Presidency? No.
“At best, he would be confused by Donald Trump and the way he’s running the
campaign. I don’t think he’d be appreciative of the demeaning style of Donald
Trump — the way he’s treated the other candidates — because my father knew that
at the end of the day he had to bring everyone together to win an election,”
Reagan said.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/reagan-trump-handshake/
May 24: Reagan Versus Trump On The Free
Movement Of People
One can find no greater contrast between Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump than on
the issue of the free movement of people. Ronald Reagan told the governments of
the Soviet Union and East Germany to let their people emigrate, whereas in a
recent forum on Long Island, Donald Trump said the U.S. will punish Central
American governments that do not prevent their citizens from leaving for the
United States.
“Some immigration policy experts argue that the way to prevent migrants from
coming to the U.S. is to increase aid to the region to combat poverty and gang
violence,” reported the
Wall Street Journal.
Michael Clemens, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development,
wrote, “U.S.-supported aid projects in Central America have been shown to
reduce the very violence that accelerates irregular migration.” Clemens
conducted research on the root causes of child migration from Central America.
He examined data on “all 179,000 children apprehended in the United States after
migrating, alone and without visas, from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala
from 2011 to 2016.” He
found, “Ten additional murders in the region caused six more children to
migrate to the United States.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/05/24/reagan-versus-trump-on-the-free-movement-of-people/#5024c3763571
July 23:Trump-allied pastor: Reagan was a
womanizer too
Robert Jeffress says evangelicals knew
Trump was “no altar boy.”
Days after the news broke that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael
Cohen had audio of Trump
discussing a payoff to a woman with whom he’d allegedly had an affair, one
of Trump’s top evangelical allies came to the president’s defense — with an
insult to former President Ronald Reagan.
Robert Jeffress, the pastor at the megachurch First Baptist Dallas, told Fox
News’s Ed Henry that Trump’s adultery made him no worse than Reagan.
“The reason we supported President Reagan was not because we were supporting
womanizing or divorce,”
Jeffress told Henry. ”We supported his policies. ... We’re not under any
illusion that we were voting for an altar boy when we voted for President Trump.
We knew about his past. And by the way, none of us has a perfect past. We voted
for him because of his policies.” (Reagan has never been publicly accused of
being unfaithful to his second wife Nancy Reagan, but
some biographers have said that he was something of a lothario in Hollywood
during his years an actor and that he cheated on his first wife, Jane Wyman. In
1991, he was
also accused of sexual assault by actress Selene Walters four decades
prior.)
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/23/17603524/robert-jeffress-defends-trump-adultery-reagan
December 22: 'NOW OR NEVER': Ronald Reagan's
Son Warns Trump About Border Wall
The son of former President Ronald Reagan issued a warning for President Donald
Trump this week, telling the president that this is his last chance to get the
funding that he needs to build the border wall.
January 3: President Trump’s quest to “build
a wall” is a far cry from President Ronald Reagan’s call in Berlin to “tear down
that wall.” The sharp contrast is emblematic of each man’s wildly different
world view. The happy warrior Reagan wanted the world united under a democratic
banner in joint opposition to the tyranny and oppression of communism. An
increasingly troubled and paranoid Trump, however, wants us to go it alone and
pull into a world of isolationism, racial resentments and anger. Reagan’s
vision tapped into our best instincts and hopes. Trump’s, on the other hand,
plays to our worse fears and anxieties.
https://www.newsleader.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/01/03/reagan-wanted-tear-down-walls-trump-wants-build/2472491002/
