Ronald Reagan

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Sailors move food and water onto an HH-60H Sea Hawk on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan on Tuesday off the coastline of Japan in the western Pacific Ocean. (Associated Press via U.S. Navy)

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** FILE ** In this March 30, 1981, photo, an unidentified Secret Service agent, automatic weapon drawn, yells orders after shots were fired at President Ronald Reagan outside a Washington hotel. A newly released Secret Service audiotape from the attempted assassination of Reagan sheds lights on the chaotic aftermath when neither the president nor his agents realized he’d been shot. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

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'TEAR DOWN THIS WALL': President Reagan gets a rousing response to his speech at the Brandenburg Gate in June 1987, two years before the divide between East and West Berlin was destroyed. (Associated Press)

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Former first lady Nancy Reagan is helped by Marine Lt. Gen. George J. Flynn after a wreath laying ceremony for her husband former U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the centennial birthday celebration at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, in Simi Valley, Calif, on Sunday Feb. 6,2011. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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Former first lady Nancy Reagan is helped by U.S. Marine Lt. Gen. George J. Flynn as she arrives for a wreath laying ceremony at the memorial of her husband, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the centennial birthday celebration at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, in Simi Valley, Calif, on Sunday Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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Former first lady Nancy Reagan is helped by U.S. Marine Lt. Gen. George J. Flynn as she arrives for a wreath laying ceremony at the memorial of her husband, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the centennial birthday celebration at at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, in Simi Valley, Calif, on Sunday Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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Former first lady Nancy Reagan is assisted by Marine Lt. Gen. George J. Flynn at a wreath-laying ceremony for former President Ronald Reagan during his centennial birthday celebration in Simi Valley, Calif., in 2011. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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John Barletta, the head agent of former President Ronald Reagan's Secret Service detail, answers questions about his service. (Peter Parisi/The Washington Times)

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Shirley Temple starred with Ronald Reagan in "That Hagen Girl" in 1947. (Photo courtesy Turner Move Classics)

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President Reagan sensed winter in Washington as a sign that "spring is coming" with things "beginning again." (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation)

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Ronald Reagan, with wife Nancy and brother Neil, holds a gold key to his boyhood home in Dixon, Ill., on Feb. 6, 1984. The home, preserved by a nonprofit foundation, is the most likely candidate for purchase by the National Park Service. (Associated Press)

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President Reagan sensed winter in Washington as a sign that "spring is coming" with things "beginning again." (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation)

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Illustration: Ronald Reagan by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Ronald Reagan taping a commentary program for radio in 1976. AP

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Illustration: Reagan's battle of ideas by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Former President Ronald Reagan celebrates with his wife, Nancy, at their Bel-Air home in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2000, Reagan's 89th birthday. Reagan died four years later of pneumonia, a common Alzheimer's disease complication. (Associated Press)

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President Reagan announces the resignation of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (right) during a briefing at the White House on June 17, 1986. Reagan said he would nominate Justice William H. Rehnquist (second from right) to the post of chief justice and Antonin Scalia (left) as a member of the Supreme Court. (Associated Press)

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House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (right) leans forward to ask President Reagan a question during the Social Security bill-signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on April 20, 1983, as various political figures look on. (Associated Press)

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President Reagan is flanked by West German Parliament President Philipp Jenninger (left) and Chancellor Helmut Kohl at West Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, where he said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" (Associated Press)