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unusual facts about Reagan's coattails


Lester L. Wolff

He lost his bid for re-election to John LeBoutillier who was helped by Reagan's coattails in the 1980 House election.


1984 Republican National Convention

President Reagan and Vice President Bush were scheduled to be housed in separate towers of the Anatole Hotel complex near downtown.

Barry Goldwater, Jr.

Goldwater would later publicly debate Reagan's son Ron Reagan, who did not support Goldwater's friend and then-California Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Beijing Consensus

Stefan Halper, Director of American Studies at the Department of Politics, Cambridge and former foreign policy official in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, offered his own interpretation of the term in his 2012 book, The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century.

Benny Thau

Kitty Kelley described Thau as "Nancy Davis's boyfriend", saying he paved the way for her Hollywood career, in her 1991 Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography.

Brother Power the Geek

In addition, it is also established that the events of the original series had taken place in Gotham City (they had previously been explicitly set in San Francisco with "the governor" clearly drawn as Reagan).

Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act

Reagan's veto was attacked harshly by anti-Apartheid leaders like Desmond Tutu who said Reagan would be "judged harshly by history".

Desperate Journey

Reagan was fresh off his acclaimed effort in Kings Row (1942), and his professional star was at its brightest.

Fetal tissue implant

Federal funding for embryonic tissue research was restricted in the United States under Presidents Reagan and Bush before being lifted under the Clinton administration.

General Haig

Alexander Haig (1924–2010), first U.S. Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan

James A. Baker, Sr.

Captain Baker was the grandfather of President Ronald Reagan's Chief of Staff, James Addison Baker III.

Jemele Hill

In an editorial describing why she could not support the Celtics, Hill wrote: "Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It's like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan. Deserving or not, I still hate the Celtics."

John Patrick Diggins

In a review of Diggins's Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review wrote,

John R. Gibson

On February 2, 1982, Gibson was nominated by Reagan to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that had been vacated by Judge Floyd Robert Gibson, who had assumed senior status.

Laurence I. Barrett

Revelations included Richard Darman's successful attempt to stall the invocation of Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution when President Reagan was receiving treatment following the 1981 assassination attempt on him.

Li Xiannian

In 1984, Li Met with US President Ronald Reagan during Reagan's visit to China, notably discussing the status of Taiwan with the President.

Mark Levine

Mark Levin (born 1957), American radio host, lawyer, author, and political commentator who served in the Reagan administration

Maureen Reagan

Reagan served on the Board of Trustees of her father's alma mater, Eureka College, in Eureka, Illinois, from March 2000 until her death.

Morris S. Arnold

At any rate, Pollan and other Republicans hoped that Arnold could bridge the gulf in the party between the former Rockefeller backers, such as herself, and the more active Reagan people, such as White and former gubernatorial candidate Ken Coon.

National Voter Registration Act of 1993

This voter registration movement was spearheaded by the husband and wife team of Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward in the early 1980s in response to the Reagan administration.

Neil Reagan

From the '30s through the '50s, Neil Reagan directed the radio series Dr. Christian, starring Jean Hersholt.

Patti Davis

She was active in the Reagan family's actions against John Hinckley and the controversial CBS miniseries The Reagans.

Paul Laikin

In 1962, Laikin teamed with cartoonist Mort Drucker on the highly successful JFK Coloring Book (Kanrom Publishers), which sold 2,500,000 copies, prompting follow-up coloring books on Ollie North and Ronald Reagan.

Peter Myers

Peter C. Myers (1931-2012), a US Missouri politician who was Deputy Secretary of Agriculture under Ronald Reagan

Peter Schweizer

Schweizer's book Reagan's War was the basis of the documentary film In the Face of Evil.

Reagan Era

Tom Clancy wrote three best-selling novels that illuminate the Reagan era: The Hunt for Red October (1984), Red Storm Rising (1986), and The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988).

Reaganomics Review

The Reagonomics Review was an American conservative satirical newsletter published between 1982 and 1985 which gently ribbed the supply-side deficit budget financing of the Reagan era's brand of economics — dubbed "Reaganomics".

Rex Lee

Rex E. Lee, US Solicitor General under President Reagan and later president of Brigham Young University

Richard and Linda J. Eyre

During the Reagan administration, Eyre served as the director of the White House Conference on Parents and Children.

Richard Van Allen

Richard V. Allen (born 1936), American National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan

Rob Wonderling

Former Reagan Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis had pushed his son Andy for the seat and the 24th district was shifted northward into the Lehigh Valley in the 2001 redistricting.

Robb Austin

Atwater introduced Austin to Reagan and included him in White House social functions and high level events, including the October 8, 1981, South Lawn departure ceremony of former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter who were leading the nation's delegation to the State funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

While acting President of Haverford College, Thiemann officiated at the May 1986 graduation ceremonies during which honorary doctorates were to be awarded to Edwin Bronner, Robert M. Gavin Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. Lewis, head of the Union Pacific Railroad had recently served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of Ronald Reagan and overseen the lockout of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

Ronald Reagan Freedom Award

On September 17, 2008, the award was presented to former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky by former first lady Nancy Reagan.

Shamrock Summit

The camaraderie between the two men was most prominently displayed in the most famous event of the summit, when Reagan and Mulroney joined others in singing "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling".

Sonny Callahan

Callahan was also undoubtedly helped by the presence of Ronald Reagan atop the ticket; Reagan carried the 1st by over 60 percent of the vote.

Stephen M. Studdert

He directed the 1989 Presidential inauguration of George H. W. Bush, having previously served as an Advisor to the 1981 and 1985 Presidential inaugurations of Ronald Reagan.

Stuart A. Summit

On September 23, 1987, toward the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Reagan nominated Summit to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to replace Irving Kaufman, who had taken senior status.

Synthetic Liquid Fuels Program

In 1986, following the 1985 oil glut, President Reagan signed into law the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 which among other things abolished the Synthetic Fuels Corporation.

Tear down the wall

Tear down this wall!, a challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall

Tenth Presbyterian Church

Notable members have included C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States during the Reagan administration and one-time head of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Terrel Bell

Bell stood out as a humble man in an administration of moneyed people—he drove a U-Haul truck from Utah to Washington when he moved, probably the only member of the Reagan cabinet to do so.

That Hagen Girl

After multiple retakes of a scene in which Reagan's character rescues Temple's from a suicide attempt by jumping into a river during a storm, Reagan collapsed.

The Phoenix Network

The Guetzloe Report and The Phoenix Network were one of 14 radio shows/networks invited to broadcast live from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on February 6, 2011 for the Reagan Centennial Birthday Celebration.

Thomas Demery

Thomas T. Demery (born July 18, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan) was Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during the Reagan presidency.

To Love a Child

To Love a Child was the theme song for the Foster Grandparents program initiated by Nancy Reagan in 1982, and was performed by Reagan and Sinatra at the program's White House launch.

Tom Carnegie

While living in Waterloo, Iowa, Carnegie would listen to radio broadcasts of a young Ronald Reagan and credits Reagan with being one of his main broadcasting inspirations and influences.

We Gotta Get out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture

For Grossberg, the Reagan and Thatcher revival of conservatism can be understood in terms outlined by Antonio Gramsci.

William P. Clark, Jr.

His biography, The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand, written by Paul Kengor and Patricia Clark Doerner, was published in 2007 by Ignatius Press.

William Thayer

W. Paul Thayer (1919–2010), American test pilot, aviation executive, and Deputy Secretary of Defense during the Reagan Administration

Wirthlin

Richard Wirthlin (1931–2011), prominent American pollster, Ronald Reagan's chief strategist


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