Ronald Reagan Dies at 93
 

Sorry if its a repost.

BREAKING NEWS
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:55 p.m. ET June 05, 2004

Ronald Reagan, the cheerful crusader who devoted his presidency to winning the Cold War, trying to scale back government and making people believe it was “morning again in America,” died Saturday after a long twilight struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, a family friend said. He was 93.

He died at his home in California, according to the friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The White House was told his health had taken a turn for the worse in the last several days.

Five years after leaving office, the nation’s 40th president told the world in November 1994 that he had been diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer’s, an incurable illness that destroys brain cells. He said he had begun “the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.”

Reagan body was expected to be taken to his presidential library and museum in Simi Valley, Calif., and then flown to Washington to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. His funeral was expected to be at the National Cathedral, an event likely to draw world leaders. The body was to be returned to California for a sunset burial at his library.

Reagan lived longer than any U.S. president, spending his last decade in the shrouded seclusion wrought by his disease, tended by his wife, Nancy, whom he called Mommy, and the select few closest to him. Now, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton are the surviving ex-presidents.

Although fiercely protective of Reagan’s privacy, the former first lady let people know his mental condition had deteriorated terribly. Last month, she said: “Ronnie’s long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him.”

Reagan’s oldest daughter, Maureen, from his first marriage, died in August 2001 at age 60 from cancer. Three other children survive: Michael, from his first marriage, and Patti Davis and Ron from his second.

Over two terms, from 1981 to 1989, Reagan reshaped the Republican Party in his conservative image, fixed his eye on the demise of the Soviet Union and Eastern European communism and tripled the national debt to $3 trillion in his singleminded competition with the other superpower.

Taking office at age 69, Reagan had already lived a career outside Washington, one that spanned work as a radio sports announcer, an actor, a television performer, a spokesman for the General Electric Co., and a two-term governor of California.

RIP

your one sad fuck


RIP

RIP

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Fuck You

Damn what a shame, RIP

wow 1911... that man lived through ww1,ww2,vietnam, not to mention the political and technological advances...makes ya think

i was in kindergarten when he was elected, wow... seems like a long time ago, RIP Ronnie...

Nooooos, aw. RIP good sir. Even though i was not alive durring you presidency. oOo:

Alias, you son of a bitch! Where have you been?


Welcome back.

And RIP.

sad news definately...

RIP

RIP with Jelly beans cowboy

"Mr. Gorbachev.. tear down this wall!"

RIP, sir.

Poor guy has been living the last 15 or so years not even knowing he was president or even his own name. Rest in peace. You deserve it. and Thanks for everything you did for this country and the world.

I didn't even vote for him the first time he ran but he made a believer out of me real quick. Great guy. Great President.

RIP Reagan

[quote:65cd9]I didn't even vote for him the first time he ran [/quote:65cd9]

How old are you, in your 40s at least if you could have voted for him.


R.I.P

Worst president of all-time.

RIP

STFU your like 14 you dont know shit about his years as president. Clinton was in office while you were still shitting in your diapers

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Think its pretty sad making fun of a guy who had a disease that probably made him forget most of his life. I think to anyone losing your sense of identity and life experiences would be a pretty scary thought. Enclosing, stfu and show some respect homo's.

RIP

Too bad Bush couldn't be more like you.

Meh, too bad Bush isn't like anyone else on the planet....


RIP

(and don't gimme shit, my dad tells me all about reagan)

[quote="Maj. Winters":b2eb2]
Meh, too bad Bush isn't like anyone else on the planet....


RIP

(and don't gimme shit, my dad tells me all about reagan)[/quote:b2eb2]

I don't even know reagan...but if he was worse than Bush...then damn, thats some REALLY bad president type stuff.

RIP

Looking back, I dont really agree with many of his domestic policies, but you cant deny the impact he had on our foreign policy. He gave those commies a run Harry Truman would have been proud of. Alzheimers is not a nice way to go, so show some some respect guys.

RIP, he was one of my favorite presidents. Along with JFK

RIP

RIP he lived a long time 93 years

Holy fuck? Jesus christ, thats old. I dont think i would even want to live that old. Healthy or not

Fireal stop posting.

Despite his failing health I didnt think he was going to go quite yet. My friends dad told us and I didnt know what to think. The more I think about him the more I wish people wouldnt talk smack about him

R.I.P Ronald

i wouldn't like to live like that for any amounts of time (Colonel explained how he couldn't remember). It is werid to say, but it's probably for the better. RIP

RIP Ronald Reagan.

How old are you, in your 40s at least if you could have voted for him.


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44. I turned 18 in 1977, so the '80 election was the first one I could vote in. I voted for President Carter.

vote for bush but hate reagan...wtf

[quote="Airborne Butters":2df0a]wow 1911... that man lived through ww1,ww2,vietnam, not to mention the political and technological advances...makes ya think[/quote:2df0a]

Me grandpa = 1901.

yeah, what kind of moron woulda won the cold war without firing a shot?
RIP ronnie. the world thanks you.

eek: how can you like both JFK and Reagan- wait- right. gotcha.

2 words


star wars.


& on another note. I beleive people should be able to voice their opinion on him TGB. Deleting the post was stupid.

stfu

[quote="Short Hand":fb408]2 words


star wars.


& on another note. I beleive people should be able to voice their opinion on him TGB. Deleting the post was stupid.[/quote:fb408]

The post wasnt an opinion. Neither of them were. They were two to three words that amounted to "fuck him". If thats all they have to say, they can start their own "I'm Glad He's Dead" thread. Of course it'll be an ignorance filled thread with little in the way of intelligence and the same bs flammage so itll get locked eventually anyway. Email an admin if you have a problem with the decision to keep this thread civil.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.