[Alias]

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.

[Merlin122]

RIP

[Dragonwraith]

Originally Posted by strvs

Good Riddance.

your one sad fuck


RIP

[Chappy]

RIP

[Merlin122]

Originally Posted by strvs

Good Riddance.

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Fuck You

[Milla]

Damn what a shame, RIP

[Airborne Butters]

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

[bukdez]

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

[intrestedviewer]

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

[ninty]

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


Welcome back.

And RIP.

[TonyMontana]

sad news definately...

RIP

[Nyck]

RIP with Jelly beans cowboy

[TGB!]

Obviously those of you who are so petulant as to congratulate the death of an American president have been deleted. Find somewhere else to be an asshole.

[Zap. USMC]

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

RIP, sir.

[Colonel]

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.