Ronald Reagan Net Worth

Ronald Reagan's Quotes

• [at the Berlin Wall, 1987] Mr. Gorbachev [Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev], tear down this wall!
• The best view of government is seen on a rear view mirror as one is driving away from it.
• [in the 1980 campaign] Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. Recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
• [1964] I love three things in life: drama, politics and sports and I'm not sure they always come in that order.
• [1980] I remember some of my own views when I was quite young. For heaven's sake, I was even a Democrat!

Interesting Facts about Ronald Reagan

1. Father of Ron Reagan and Patti Davis with Nancy Reagan. As a child, Patti Davis hated political talk so much that whenever politics came up at the dinner table she would deliberately fall out of her seat. This always changed the topic. Both Ron Reagan and Patti Davis became liberal Democrats.
2. Spouses William Holden and Brenda Marshall served as Best Man and Matron of Honor at his wedding to Nancy Reagan in 1952.
3. 40th president of the United States (20 January 1981 - 20 January 1989).
4. Governor of California. Term of service: 2 January 1967 - 6 January 1975.
5. President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952 and 1959-1960.
6. Graduate of Eureka College (1932).
7. The younger son of John Edward Reagan and Nelle Clyde Wilson Reagan, and brother of Neil Reagan (1908-1996), Ronald Reagan was of Irish descent on his father's side, and of Scottish and English descent on his mother's side. His paternal grandfather, John Michael Reagan, was born in Peckham, County Kent, England, to Irish parents, and his paternal grandmother, Jennie Cusick, was born in Dixon, Illinois, also to Irish parents. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Wilson, also an Illinois native, was of Scottish descent (partly by way of Canada), and his maternal grandmother, Mary Ann Elsey, was English, from Epsom, co. Surrey. His paternal great-grandfather, Michael Regan, emigrated to the USA from Ballyporeen, Ireland, in the 1860s. Ballyporeen, a tiny rural farming town in County Tipperary, is located in the south-central part of the country and its inhabitants are frequently referred to as "Midlanders". The Regans were one of three primary families, or "clans", that populated St. Mary's Parish in the village of Ballyporeen. The Ronald Reagan Visitors Centre was built down the street from St. Mary's Church following his visit to his ancestral home in the mid-1980s. The spelling of the family name Regan was changed to Reagan after they arrived in the USA.
8. Was a sports announcer in Des Moines, Iowa, before becoming an actor in 1937.
9. Member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
10. Was presented with George Gipp's letterman's sweater by the University of Notre Dame football team on January 18, 1989, two days before leaving the White House, and his two-term Vice President, 'George Herbert Walker Bush', became President.
11. Was portrayed on Saturday Night Live (1975) by at least eight different actors: Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, Charles Rocket, Harry Shearer, Robin Williams, Joe Piscopo, Phil Hartman, and Kevin Nealon.
12. Father of Maureen Reagan and Michael Reagan with Jane Wyman. They also had a daughter, Christine, who was born June 26, 1947, and lived 9 hours. The family resided at 9137 Cordell Drive, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. The estate, built in 1942, fetched $8.5 million when sold in September 2012. Maureen Reagan died on Wednesday, August 8, 2001, of malignant melanoma (skin cancer) at her Sacramento home. Suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he never knew of her death, and his wife Nancy Reagan chose not to tell him.
13. When he was a young man, he had a part-time job as a lifeguard. He once had to retrieve an old man's dentures at the bottom of the pool and did so without hesitating.
14. While President of the USA, his Secret Service codename was "Rawhide".
15. (May 16th 2002) Awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal for ending the "Cold War" against Russia, along with his wife Nancy Reagan, for fighting substance abuse among American youths.
16. When Reagan's long-time friend and first Hollywood agent, studio mogul Lew Wasserman, died on 3 June 2002, AP reported that their friendship was the subject of a controversial book called "Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA and the Mob" (1988). The book reviewed the federal investgation into the Reagan- Wasserman relationship and charges that alleged payoffs were made in the 1950s by Wasserman's mammoth MCA agency to Reagan and some of his fellow officers of the Screen Actors Guild. Ultimately, Reagan was cleared in the inquiry.
17. Was the first guest of honor on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, in 1973.
18. Although he was 30 when the United States entered World War II, he volunteered for military service. He was turned down for combat duty due to his poor eyesight.
19. For two weeks in 1954, Reagan opened as a stand-up comic at the Ramona Room of the Hotel Last Frontier in Las Vegas, Nevada.
20. Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1989.