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President Ronald Reagan has passed away after 10 years of Alzheimer's disease at 93 years of age. We appreciate everyone's prayers," Nancy Reagan said in a statement.


Nancy Reagan, along with children Ron and Patti Davis, were at the couple's Los Angeles home when Reagan died at 1 p.m. PDT of pneumonia, as a complication of Alzheimer's disease, said Joanne Drake, who represents the family. Son Michael arrived a short time later, she said.

I highly respected Ronald Reagan.

indeed, this was a sad day

indeed

Its sad. He was probably the greatest pres in my lifetime.

Just before D- Day rememberance
He will be respected and highly remembered by many Americans

I'm definetly no economics buff, but:

as Gabriel said he did increase the national debt in a very big way, which was not such a good point, on the other hand he was very popular in the US.

He made those debts to help the american economy out of crisis, still there should have been another way to do that.

I have mixed feelings toward reagan

Reagon wanted to cut taxes and cut spending. However, Congress disagreed with that policy, so he was forced to have a budget that had cut taxes and increased spending.

well than congress was an ass, but I doubt it's only congress it's fault

Reagon believed in something called 'New Federalism' He wanted the states to tkae up more responsibilites and to reduce the power of the national gov't. That's why he wanted to cut spending. Congress disagreed with him, vetoed his budget and came up with their own that had taxes cut and spending higher, a recipe for deficit

I agree with Fire and Gabriel on this. He certainly left a legacy, but it wasn't at all a good thing.

with every president, there's always something good and something bad. He helped bring down communism, but created a huge budget deficit.

He's the oldest president too.

Its funny how in Reagens era the democrats controlled congress and they complain that he created a deficit... yet in Clintons era Republicans controlled congress and the democrats take credit for balancing the budget....
Congress mind you controls everything to do with money and budget. The President cannot even wisper anything related to money.

Will a Jellybean make everyone feel better?

RIP Mr. Reagon

I don't know enough about the cold war to judge how major that bringing down communism was, I think it was necessairy to defuse the situation but a lot of russians seem to think they were better of with the USSR

Yeah, now they pretty much have an anarchy. I won't say much though because I know next to nothing about the Cold War era and communist Russia.

well, it made Americans feel safer; the risk for nuclear war was gone.

I guess it is sad, but he was 93 he had a good life.

Of course we went in debt with Reagan. But that was the cost of getting us out of the situations that we were in. He was a great man and a great president.

like my sig and avy?

They have freedom... what they do with it will be how they judge themselves... they lived nearly 70+ years in terror, give them some time.... KGB and the Gologe leave deep scars and a hardened people who will make it through.

R.I.P Reagen...

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Is it true that President Bush said that Friday 11th of this month will be national day of mourning? That means no federal employees won't be working.

ditto , he was the greatest .

I used to think he was a brainless buffoon but now I'm older and wiser I realise he made the world a much safer place for us all. It would be interesting to see what he'd do if he were President today.