41 Facts About Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

1. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library retired to his home in Los Angeles, where he wrote his autobiography, An American Life.

2. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library accepted responsibility for the arms-for-hostages deal but denied any knowledge of the diversion.

3. In 1981 Ronald Reagan Presidential Library authorized $20 million to recruit and train a band of anti-Sandinista guerrillas, many of whom were former supporters of Somoza, to overthrow the Sandinista government.

4. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library's smiling response to such charges—"There you go again"—did not directly address the point, but it did convey a disarming image of sincerity, self-confidence, and friendliness, which most voters found appealing.

5. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library made a halfhearted bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as a favourite-son candidate, finishing third behind Nixon and former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller.

6. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library announced his candidacy for governor of California in 1966.

7. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library met Nancy Davis, a relatively unknown actress, at a dinner party in 1949, and the two were married in a simple ceremony in 1952, at which actor William Holden was best man.

8. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library had absorbed the liberal Democratic opinions of his father and became a great admirer of Franklin Roosevelt after his election in 1932.

9. On June 3, 2009, Nancy Ronald Reagan Presidential Library unveiled a statue of her late husband in the United States Capitol rotunda.

10. In 1981, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln by the Governor of Illinois in the area of Government.

11. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library never left the United States during World War II, but he kept a film reel that he obtained while he was in the service.

12. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library earned the nickname "the Teflon President", in that public perceptions of him were not tarnished by the controversies that arose during his administration.

13. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has become an iconic figure in the Republican Party.

14. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library nominated conservative jurist Robert Bork to the high court in 1987.

15. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library said no, claiming that it was defensive only, and that he would share the secrets with the Soviets.

16. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library appreciated the revolutionary change in the direction of the Soviet policy with Mikhail Gorbachev, and shifted to diplomacy, with a view to encourage the Soviet leader to pursue substantial arms agreements.

17. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library encouraged Congress to think of it as billions of new dollars spent in individual districts.

18. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was deeply committed first to the abolition of nuclear weapons, worldwide.

19. President Ronald Reagan Presidential Library professed that he was unaware of the plot's existence.

20. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library announced a War on Drugs in 1982, in response to concerns about the increasing crack epidemic.

21. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was sworn in as president for the second time on January 20, 1985, in a private ceremony at the White House.

22. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library accepted the Republican nomination in the Republican convention in Dallas, Texas.

23. On October 25, 1983, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library ordered US forces to invade Grenada where a 1979 coup d'etat had established an independent non-aligned Marxist–Leninist government.

24. In 1981, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library became the first president to propose a constitutional amendment on school prayer.

25. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library launched his campaign by declaring "I believe in states' rights.

26. In 1976, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library challenged incumbent President Gerald Ford in a bid to become the Republican Party's candidate for president.

27. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was involved in several high-profile conflicts with the protest movements of the era, including his public criticism of university administrators for tolerating student demonstrations at the University of California, Berkeley campus.

28. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library gained national attention in his speeches for conservative presidential contender Barry Goldwater in 1964.

29. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library said that if his listeners did not write letters to prevent it, "we will awake to find that we have socialism.

30. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was hired by General Electric in 1954 to host the General Electric Theater, a weekly TV drama series.

31. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library built on previous efforts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons.

32. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was first elected to the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild in 1941, serving as an alternate member.

33. In January 1944, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was ordered to temporary duty in New York City to participate in the opening of the Sixth War Loan Drive, which campaigned for the purchase of war bonds.

34. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library began his presidency during the decline of the Soviet Union, and the Berlin Wall fell just ten months after the end of his term.

35. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library enacted cuts in domestic discretionary spending, cut taxes, and increased military spending which contributed to increased federal outlays overall, even after adjustment for inflation.

36. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library faced former vice president Walter Mondale when he ran for re-election in 1984, and defeated him in a landslide with the largest electoral college victory in American history.

37. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild—the labor union for actors—where he worked to root out Communist influence.

38. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was raised in a poor family in small towns of northern Illinois.

39. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library started eating jelly beans in 1967 as he was trying to quit a pipe-smoking habit.

40. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library had a long career as an actor and union leader before he became the governor of California in the 1960s and won presidential elections in 1980 and 1984.

41. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is the presidential library and burial site of Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, and his wife Nancy Reagan.