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Line 56: \| order = [[List of presidents of the United States\|40th]] }} '''Ronald Wilson Reagan''' ({{IPAc-en\|ˈ\|r\|eɪ\|ɡ\|ən}} {{respell\|RAY\|gən}}; February 6, 1911{{spnd}}June 5, 2004) was an [[Americans\|American]] [[politician]] and [[actor]]. He was the 40th [[president of the United States]] from 1981 to 1989. Before becoming president, he was the 33rd [[governor of California]] from 1967 to 1975. He was also the 9th and 13th president of the [[Screen Actors Guild]] from 1947 to 1952 and again from 1959 until 1960. ~~'''P'''~~ Reagan got a degree from [[Eureka ~~College\|Uretha~~ College]] in 1932 and became a sports broadcaster in Iowa. In 1937, Reagan moved to California, where he became a movie actor. From 1947 to 1952, Reagan was the president of the Screen Actors Guild. In the 1950s, he worked in television and spoke for [[General Electric]]. From 1959 to 1960, he again was the Screen Actors Guild's president. In 1964, "[[A Time for Choosing]]" gave Reagan attention as a new conservative figure. He was [[1966 California gubernatorial election\|elected governor of California in 1966]]. During his time as governor, he raised taxes, fixed the state's budget, and [[1969 People's Park protest\|ended student protests]] in [[Berkeley, California\|Berkeley]]. After running against and losing to president [[Gerald Ford]] in the [[1976 Republican Party presidential primaries\|1976 Republican presidential primaries]], Reagan won the Republican nomination and then a [[landslide victory]] over Democratic president [[Jimmy Carter]] in the [[1980 United States presidential election]]. In his first term, Reagan created "[[Reaganomics]]", which included economic [[deregulation]] and cuts in both taxes and government spending during a time of [[stagflation]]. He grew an arms race and had a more intense response with the Soviet Union. He also survived [[Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan\|an assassination attempt]], had a problems with public sector labor unions, made the [[war on drugs]] bigger, and ordered the [[invasion of Grenada]] in 1983. In [[1984 United States presidential election\|the 1984 presidential election]], Reagan was re-elected over former vice president [[Walter Mondale]] in another landslide victory. Foreign policy took over Reagan's second term, including the [[1986 bombing of Libya]], the [[Iran–Iraq War]], the [[Iran–Contra affair\|secret sale of arms to Iran to fund the Contras]], and a more calm response in talks with Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] that led to the [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]].

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