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Ronald Reagan

Foreign dignitaries are seen at the National Cathedral 11 June, 2004 during funeral services for former US president Ronald Reagan in Washington, DC. First row from bottom: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh (R). Second row from bottom (L-R): Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R); King Abdullah II of Jordan (3rd R); South African Presdent Thabo Mbeki (2nd R) and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. Third row from bottom (L-R): First Lady of Mexico Marta Sahagun (2nd R); President of Romania Ion Iliescu. Fourth row from bottom (L-R): Iraqi interim president Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar (C), acting President of Lithuania Arturas Paulauskas (2nd R). Fifth row from bottom (L-R): Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C-looking towards the L), Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and First Lady of Britain Cherie Blair. Others are unidentified.

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  • Flight delays pile up amid FAA budget cuts

    FlightAware. Last Monday, just 6 percent of LaGuardia's flights were delayed.The situation was similar at Washington's Reagan National Airport, in Newark, N.J., and in Philadelphia, with roughly 20 percent of flights delayed.At airports, Monday is typically   Read more »

  • Bromund: Margaret Thatcher's lesson: To triumph, do your homework

    Union , the civil service tried to brief her. She demanded a seminar with the West's best historians of Russia instead. Ronald Reagan also read a lot. But he didn't brag about it. He thought he'd get more done if people believed he was a slacker. His public   Read more »

  • Reagan, Thatcher forged a close, lasting bond

    -- Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan , two self-assured and firm-speaking conservatives, joined forces in the early 1980s and drastically changed the economic and political landscapes in both of their countries.Their calls for more-austere government and   Read more »

  • Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, dead at 87

    away Monday morning.During 11 bruising years as prime minister, Thatcher found a fellow believer in former U.S. President Ronald Reagan , transformed her country by a ruthless dedication to free markets and infuriated European allies.Thatcher retired from   Read more »

  • Northrop Grumman to move 1,000 jobs off Long Island

    of the region's economy, has steadily lost jobs since the 1980s, when it employed as many as 80,000 people here during the Reagan administration's defense buildup. That number was down to 31,000 in 2006.Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association,   Read more »

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About Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan ( /ˈrɒnəld ˈwɪlsən ˈreɪɡən/; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and a radio, film and television actor.

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