Biografía

Amidst the panic at the hospital after Reagan's assassination attempt, a Secret Service agent was asked information for Reagan's admission forms. The intern asked for Reagan's last name. The agent, who was quite surprised at the question, responded "Reagan". The intern then asked for Reagan's first name. The agent, again surprised, responded "Ronald". The intern didn't look up, instead he unassumingly asked for Reagan's address. The agent paused for a few moments in great surprise before saying "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue". That got the intern's attention.

While President of the USA, his Secret Service codename was "Rawhide".

In his 1984 presidential re-election victory he received more electoral votes than any president in history, winning 525 out of a possible 538 votes, and ranked third among electoral vote percentages in contested elections, winning 97.6% of the electoral vote and 58.8% of the popular vote. Reagan won 49 out of 50 states against his Democratic opponent Walter Mondale, losing only Mondale's home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. Reportedly, Reagan's campaign wanted to recount the narrow Minnesota results to give him a unanimous victory, but Reagan himself rejected the idea, as he had already won the election and it would serve no purpose other than to humiliate Mondale further.

As Captain in the U.S. Army, Reagan signed Major Clark Gable's discharge papers in June 1944.

Influenced by the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver (1976), John Hinckley Jr.--the son of a prominent Republican family from Colorado--tried to assassinate Reagan in 1981 in order to impress actress Jodie Foster. Foster had won her first Oscar nomination for the film, in which Robert De Niro's character, "Travis Bickle", tried to assassinate a liberal Democratic presidential candidate to impress Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), the woman he is obsessed with. Hinckley was acquitted by a jury on reasons of insanity and remained incarcerated in a psychiatric facility until 2016, when he was released from psychiatric care. As of early 2022, Hinckley has maintained a YouTube channel where he posts his music.

[at the Berlin Wall, 1987] Mr. Gorbachev [Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev], tear down this wall!

The best view of government is seen on a rear view mirror as one is driving away from it.

[in the 1980 campaign] Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. Recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

[1964] I love three things in life: drama, politics and sports and I'm not sure they always come in that order.

[1980] I remember some of my own views when I was quite young. For heaven's sake, I was even a Democrat!