A | B |
Ronald Reagan | 40th President of the United States |
Nancy | Reagan's wife for more than 50 years |
He watched and listened to his mother read. | how he learned to read |
General Electric | He worked for this company when he was a young man. |
His mother | She taught him to remember people's names. |
Captain | Reagan's rank in the Army Air Corps |
Republican | the political party he joined in 1962 |
California | Reagan was governor of this state. |
Jimmy Carter | the Democrat he defeated in 1980 |
525 | the number of electoral votes Reagan received in 1984 |
13 | the number of electoral votes Mondale received in 1984 |
prayer in the schools | He was in favor of this. |
John Hinkley | the person who tried to kill him |
James Brady | Reagan's press secretary who was injured |
Cold War | a time of distrust between nations |
Gorbachev | Reagan confronted this Russian leader |
"Tear down this wall" | Reagan's words to Gorbachev |
Berlin | the German city divided by a wall |
Alzheimer's disease | He suffered from this in later years. |
Sandra Day O'Conner | first woman to serve on the Supreme Court |