#Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum

[deadpresidents]

Can you recommend any active history blogs?

I don't follow all that many blogs, so I'm sure some of my readers can share their recommendations in the replies. Of the blogs that I do follow, here are a few activate sites that regularly update with some great material:

•The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum (@richardnixonlibrary)

•The California State Library (@californiastatelibrary)

•The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library (@fdrlibrary)

•Today's Document from the National Archives (@todaysdocument)

•The National Archives (@usnatarchives)

I really wish that the LBJ Library (@lbjlibrary) still updated their Tumblr regularly because they used to post some interesting stuff. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum (@fordlibrarymuseum) has also been inactive for a few months, but they were one of my favorite things to see on my dashboard when they posted regularly. A few years ago, the National Archives actually started an awesome Tumblr called Our Presidents (@ourpresidents) that was like the mothership for all of the other Presidential Library blogs in the NARA's Presidential Library system. It was a GREAT idea and one of my favorite blogs, but it just stopped posting a couple years ago. I wish they would get that one going again. I think those inactive sites still have their old posts and archives available, so you can still go back and see what we're missing.

Like I said, I'm sure some of my readers have better suggestions than I do about this that they can share in the replies, so what are some of your favorite history blogs?

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A PRESIDENT RESIGNS: 50 YEARS LATER - A virtual panel discussion on the resignation.

Thursday, August 8, 2024, from noon to 1:30 p.m. (PDT)

Using records from the collections at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, the program will look at President Nixon’s decision to resign and final days at the White House. The panel will offer diverse perspectives on this day in American history and its impact 50 years later.

Confirmed panelists include:

Alan Lowe (moderator): Executive Director, American Museum of Science and Energy and the K-25 Atomic History Center.

Jason Schultz (panelist): Supervisory Archivist, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

Garrett Graff (panelist): Journalist, historian, Nixon archives researcher and Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Bob Bostock (panelist): Consultant to the Richard Nixon Foundation.

Frank Gannon (panelist): Former Nixon staffer.

The A President Resigns discussion will stream live on our YouTube channel. The program will also be shown at the National Archives in Washington D.C. and at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum.

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Courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum! President Gerald R. Ford with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the President's private office at the White House to discuss the deteriorating situation in South Vietnam and the lack of Congressional support for more U.S. aid. The North Vietnamese had just started their attack against South Vietnamese positions in the Central Highlands.

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Gerald R. Ford, The Troubles, Made By Google, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, August 13, 2024

NEW RESOURCES School News Network: Ford Museum launches new website with more access to research tools, streamlined school visit form . “The new Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum website launched Aug. 9. The website includes expanded access to a growing Digital Artifact Collection, more access to research tools for students and teachers, and a streamlined school visit registration…

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo cuts through the bullshit.

The US should have left Afghanistan no more than 18 months after the initial invasion. Instead we’ve been there for 238 months and did not basically change things in the 220 month difference.

It probably made most sense to leave Afghanistan in 2002 or 2003. The Taliban were roundly unpopular by the time the US military and mostly its local allies had driven them off. A critical, critical decision was made in late 2002 both to remain in Afghanistan but move it to the backburner as we launched on to our folly in Iraq.

All the histrionics by pundits and the hypocritical criticism by Trump Republicans won’t change the fact that Biden made the only possible reality-based decision. You’ll never hear the expression “reality-based” used in connection with Donald Trump.

To the extent there’s a political strategy for the President, it’s to stick to his guns. It would be a grave political mistake to begin handwringing over the fall of Kabul or second-guessing the decision. It’s done. If nothing else, Lake and his cohort are right: Biden owns the decision. He needs to combat overheated insider DC nonsense like this. Since it was the right decision he should not run away from it. It’s sad to see what it is happening, he should say. But after 20 years of support, it was time for the Afghans to stand on their own.

[ ... ]

However ugly the denouement, Biden understood the reality of the situation better than his military advisors. He was and is more in line with US popular opinion which long ago soured on our perpetual occupation of Afghanistan. Whether they will reward him or punish him for following through on that judgment I can’t say. But the best way to ensure the former outcome is to be clear, direct: After 20 years it was up to the Afghans to decide their own future. This is a fight for Afghans, not another generation of American boys. A perpetual deployment was not in the security interests of the United States.

Also, the over the top kvetching about comparisons to “the fall of Saigon in 1975″ forgets one thing: It had approximately ZERO effect on the 1976 election.

I read the transcripts of the three 1976 presidential debates. Nobody even brought up the fall of Saigon. See for yourself...

23 September 1976 – 1st Ford-Carter debate

06 October 1976 – 2nd Ford-Carter debate  

22 October 1976 – 3rd Ford-Carter debate 

The closest thing was when journalist Henry Trewhitt mentions “lost the first war in Vietnam" in the context of various Cold War events.

Unless there’s some unexpected disaster there in the next few days, voters won’t care any more about the fall of Kabul in 2022 (or 2024) than they did about the 1975 fall of Saigon in 1976.

BONUS LINK: The famous staircase to the top of the old US embassy in Saigon now resides at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. If President Ford felt sensitive about such a reminder of the fall of Saigon he would have rejected it when the government of Vietnam offered to donate it in the 1990s. You can see the exhibit with the staircase at the museum’s official Tumblr.

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Nothing says Christmas like fresh baked ornaments straight out of the archives catalog. Archives Technician Aaron located a delightful holiday picture with Betty Ford and her daughter Susan transforming cookies into Christmas ornaments. It seems once the cookies are out of the oven they are decorated and they go straight to the White House tree. I remember when I was  a young sprout baking and decorating cookies for the tree. I also remember they had a special coating to make them last for years.  Did you have a similar holiday tradition? 

For more information about the Gerald Ford Presidency check out the Ford Presidential library and museum. https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/

Series:  Gerald R. Ford White House Photographs, 8/9/1974 - 1/20/1977 Collection: White House Photographic Office Collection (Ford Administration), 12/6/1973 - 1/20/1977. (National Archives Identifier 6829629) 

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The National Archives celebrates the 243rd anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence with special events in Washington, DC, and at many of our Presidential Libraries nationwide:  

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, West Branch, IA The library will hold a reading of the Declaration of Independence, along with a free concert by the Eastern Iowa Brass Band at 2 p.m. Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Abilene, KS Watch the Washington, DC, Declaration of Independence Reading Ceremony in the Visitors Center Auditorium at 10 a.m. The first 100 attendees will receive a free fan!

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA The museum will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will offer free admission to all members of the active military. Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, Austin, TX The museum willl be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with free museum admission for all on July 4.

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, CA Witness history with Revolutionary War encampments and battle skirmishes.  Talk with historical reenactors including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Paine, Betsy Ross, General Charles Cornwallis, and Benjamin Franklin. Special patriotic performance by the Placentia Symphonic Band.  

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Grand Rapids, MI See the broadcast of the Washington, DC, Declaration of Independence Reading Ceremony in the theater.

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Simi Valley, CA Participate in family-fun activities, including patriotic concerts, entertainment, games, crafts, and more. All outdoor activities are free; regular admission rates for the Presidential  Museum, Air Force One Pavilion, and our blockbuster special exhibit, "The World of da Vinci."

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, College Station, TX The library will show a live broadcast of the Washington, DC, Declaration of Independence Reading Ceremony at 10 a.m. 

George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Dallas, TX The library will broadcast the Washington, DC, Declaration of Independence Reading Ceremony in the classroom at 10 a.m. There will also be an opportunity to write letters to our troops overseas.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum         

Este museu foi inaugurado em 2005 e é o mais frequentado dos museus e bibliotecas presidenciais. Os outros desses museus fazem referência à:  Herbert Hoover,  Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush e Barack Obama. 

Projetado, criado e produzido pela BRC Imaginations Arts para a Agência de Preservação Histórica de Illinois, sua construção inclui arquivo, museu e biblioteca. Possui tecnologias com as quais os visitantes podem interagir e conta a história de Lincoln desde sua infância até a morte. Há um salão principal que dá acesso às nove galerias, incluindo restaurante, loja de presentes, teatro e as exposições em si. Uma das galerias é exclusiva para a apresentação dos objetos históricos que pertenceram ao presidente.

A biblioteca armazena os arquivos da antiga Biblioteca Histórica do Estado de Illinois, com 12 milhões de livros, documentos e artefatos, dos quais 47 mil são artefatos da Coleção Lincoln, incluindo os originais da Proclamação de Emancipação e do Discurso de Gettysburg.

O Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum fica localizado em Illinois e está aberto ao público das 09:00 às 17:00 todos os dias, exceto no Ano Novo, Dia de Ação de Graças e Natal. A venda dos tickets de entrada acabam às 16:00. A Biblioteca funciona nos mesmos horários e dias para o público em geral, contudo, para pesquisas, fica aberta de segunda a sexta das 09:00 às 16:30, no sábado das 09:00 às 15:30 e fechada aos domingos. 

Para mais informações, visite a página oficial do museu no Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lincoln.Museum/

[todaysdocument]

Happy 100th, Betty Ford! 4/8/1918 - 7/8/2011

First Lady Betty Ford Dancing on the Cabinet Room Table, 1/19/1977 Series: Gerald R. Ford White House Photographs, 8/9/1974 - 1/20/1977 Collection: White House Photographic Office Collection (Ford Administration), 12/6/1973 - 1/20/1977  (holdings of @fordlibrarymuseum )

First Lady Betty Ford was born Elizabeth Anne “Betty” Bloomer in Chicago on April 8, 1918.  Raised in Grand Rapids Michigan, she developed an early passion in dance.  She married Gerald Ford in 1948, two weeks before Ford was elected to his first term in Congress.  Betty was thrust into the spotlight when her husband became Vice President in 1973 and then President on August 9, 1974. As First Lady, she became known for her openness and candor. After undergoing a mastectomy in September 1974 she purposefully discussed her breast cancer diagnosis to raise public awareness of screening and treatment options. She also addressed many issues that were important to her, including support for the arts, programs for handicapped children, and women’s rights, particularly the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Throughout the year, the National Archives will feature programming in celebration of Betty Ford. This special programming includes teacher/student outreach, social media initiatives, and special programs and exhibits at the National Archives in Washington, DC as well as the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum:  Betty Ford Centennial

[deadpresidents]

I’m curious about the friendship between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter (and presidential friendships in general,) I’d like to know what that looked like for them. Would they go and do things together or was it just a few phone calls a year?

Their relationship is really interesting because during the 1976 campaign and in the years right afterward, Ford and Carter genuinely did not like each other. It wasn't a normal, opponent vs. opponent rivalry, either. They straight-up disliked one another, and that was extremely unusual for Gerald Ford, who got along with practically everybody he met throughout his life, rarely had bad things to say about other people, and was almost physically incapable of being unkind to others, no matter what side of the political spectrum they belonged to.

What changed was when President Reagan sent all the living former Presidents -- Nixon, Ford, and Carter -- to Cairo in 1981 to attend Anwar Sadat's funeral following Sadat's assassination. The three former Presidents all flew together on one of the planes normally used as Air Force One, and there was some tension at the beginning, but the person who broke the ice, oddly enough, ended up being Richard Nixon. Ford then suggested that the former Presidents should drop all formalities and just refer to one another as Dick, Jerry, and Jimmy. As Ford remembered, "I guess we figured we were gonna be in a plane together forty hours, more or less, and in order to be pleasant, it was a good idea to just wipe the slate clean, which we did." Ford and Carter eventually started bonding, partly over the fact that Ronald Reagan was a major reason why each of them ultimately lost their respective bids for re-election.

At the time, Carter was having trouble building his Presidential Library, and he asked Ford for some advice since Ford had just recently opened his library. When Carter mentioned he was having some issues raising money for the library, Ford offered to come down and appear at fundraisers for him, and asked Carter to return the favor and visit the Ford Library for an event.

As Thomas M. DeFrank writes in his 2007 book, Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO):

"Carter accepted, triggering a Jimmy-Jerry tag team match extending over several years. These back-scratching appearances didn't convert them into friends, but the relationship was notably friendlier. They began staying in regular contact, talking on the phone, and exchanging birthday greetings. Their contacts were sufficiently public that some of Ford's closest political allies grumbled that he was spending altogether too much time with Carter -- not unlike similar complaints from [George H.W.] Bush 41 partisans today that he hangs around Bill Clinton too much. Ford brushed off the complaints. Beyond their shared practical interests in Presidential Libraries, another unifying bond was at play. Both ex-Presidents had strong reasons not to like Ronald Reagan, which helped cement their ties even though neither one would ever admit it publicly. To one old Ford friend, the calculation was simple: 'Once you did something for his library or museum, you were a friend for life.'"

As they got older, Ford and Carter would sometimes make joint appearances at Presidential Libraries or universities, or events for important causes, and they even wrote a joint op-ed during the Monica Lewinsky scandal urging Congress to censure President Clinton instead of impeaching him. They felt it was a bad precedent (which it has clearly turned out to be) and would be bad for the country. Unlike Ford, Jimmy Carter wasn't very easy-going or personable, so there were times when their friendship would get a little frayed. Ford once told a friend, "Well, you know Jimmy. He can be a real pain in the ass, but we get along."

Eventually, they promised one another that they would deliver the eulogy if the other former President died first. President Ford died first, on December 26, 2006, and Carter attended every event during the several days of ceremonies, from Ford's lying in state at the U.S. Capitol, to the national funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral, and traveled with Ford's family and the former President's remains to Ford's hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. At the church service in Grand Rapids, Carter delivered his eulogy, and also attended the private interment service when Ford was buried as at his Presidential Library. In his eulogy, Carter repeated the gracious first words he had said when delivering his Inaugural Address on the day he took over the White House from Ford in 1977, "For myself and for my nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land." It was a remarkable relationship between two former Presidents who, again, genuinely disliked one another for quite some time.

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AT NOON TODAY! THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2024, noon to 1:30 p.m. (PDT)

A PRESIDENT RESIGNS: 50 YEARS LATER - A virtual panel discussion on the resignation.

Using records from the collections at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, the program will look at President Nixon’s decision to resign and final days at the White House. The panel will offer diverse perspectives on this day in American history and its impact 50 years later.

Confirmed panelists include:

Alan Lowe (moderator): Executive Director, American Museum of Science and Energy and the K-25 Atomic History Center.

Jason Schultz (panelist): Supervisory Archivist, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

Garrett Graff (panelist): Journalist, historian, Nixon archives researcher, and Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Bob Bostock (panelist): Consultant to the Richard Nixon Foundation.

Frank Gannon (panelist): Former Nixon staffer.

The A President Resigns discussion will stream live on YouTube.

The program will also be shown at the National Archives in Washington D.C. and at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum.

Visit our website or scan the QR code to learn more.

#apresidentresigns

[fordlibrarymuseum]

1976 Presidential Election an online exhibit

The American nation had never faced a presidential election quite like the one in 1976!

Click through the NEW online exhibit highlighting the holdings of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum focusing on the 1976 Republican primary race and subsequent presidential election.

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/.../1976elec.../index.html

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Image Gallery: The US Presidents and the Shah of Iran: A Strategic Partnership

Explore a gallery capturing the close ties between the last Shah of Iran and six U.S. Presidents over a span of three decades.

— July 25, 2022

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, also known as Mohammad Reza Shah, the last Shah of Iran, courted a very close relationship with the United States and its leaders for almost three decades.

The American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) developed a secret plan to overthrow the then-democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Code-named Operation Ajax, the CIA carried out the plan in August 1953 and put the Shah in control of Iran. The Shah maintained a close strategic relationship with the United States and its presidents for the next 26 years, until the Shah’s overthrow in the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

Top: President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower welcome the Shah and his wife, Queen Soraya, for lunch at the White House on December 14, 1954, just one year after the 1953 coup. Credit: Getty Images Bottom: The Shah of Iran and President Eisenhower drive through cheering crowds in Tehran on their way to the Shah's marble palace on December 14, 1959. Credit: Associated Press

Top: President John F. Kennedy and the Shah of Iran arrive at a U.S. military training facility in North Carolina on April 14, 1962, to view a demonstration of Navy and Marine Corps amphibious landing operations. Credit: JFK Presidential Library and Museum Bottom: The Shah of Iran with his wife, the Empress Farah Pahlavi, arrive at the White House for a state dinner in their honor on April 11, 1962. (L-R) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Shah Pahlavi, the Empress Pahlavi, and President John F. Kennedy. Credit: JFK Public Library and Museum

During a state visit on June 5, 1964, the Shah of Iran posed with President Lyndon Baines Johnson outside the White House, Washington D.C. Credit: Library of Congress

The U.S. Information Agency created this propaganda poster of the Shah of Iran and President Johnson for international distribution between 1950 and 1965. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

President Richard Nixon hosted the Shah of Iran at the White House in October 1969. Credit: Wikimedia

President Richard Nixon and the Shah of Iran met in the Oval office for almost two hours on July 24, 1973. Credit: Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

President Gerald Ford and the Shah of Iran reviewed troops on the South Lawn of the White House on May 15, 1975. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

On May 15, 1975 President Gerald Ford and the Shah of Iran look at charts from the USS Mayaquez military operation conducted earlier in the month. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

President Jimmy Carter welcomes the Shah on his twelfth visit to the U.S. on November 15, 1977. Beyond the White House gates, police forces released tear gas to dispel pro-Shah and anti-Shah demonstrators. President Carter continued his welcome address even as the assembled, the Shah included, wiped away tears. Credit: Getty Images

President Carter and the Shah perform a ceremonial inspection of the troops during a welcoming ceremony for the Shah on November 15, 1977. Just fourteen months later, the Iranian Revolution would force the Shah into exile. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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A wintry scene downtown Grand Rapids

standing for something in this world usually meets with opposition. and it matters what we are standing (or sitting) for.

this world is a difference of opinion.

but Love knows right from wrong. it understands good vs. evil behavior. it tells truth while others tell lies.

Love illuminates the heart, even to give it a new True nature.

(A metamorphosis)

and we have been given the right to choose, between what is pure, or not. and to deal with the consequences.

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2.4.22 • 11:30am • Twitter

A letter tweeted Today from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum rests along the banks of the Grand River downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan

@Ford_Library

"...I have never told you that I treasure my friendship with you very much. ...too often we fail to tell our friends that we really care about them and we are grateful to them." George Bush sent this thoughtful letter to his #ArchivesBFF Gerald Ford in 1996.

2.4.22 • 2:59pm • Twitter

writing can be a kind way to communicate with a friend.

A post by John Parsons about a True act of metamorphosis:

Our Lord taught that teshuvah (תְּשׁוּבָה), or "repentance," is more like spiritual rebirth than moral reformation: "Unless you are born from above (ἄνωθεν), you cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). This implies that we experience a radical shift in the way we "live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). The Greek word metanoia (μετάνοια) comes from a verb that means more than simply "changing your mind," but rather refers to the process of being transformed, or "metamorphosized," into a new kind of being -- like a worm that is changed into a butterfly that takes to the bright sky. Teshuvah, then, means turning (i.e., shuv: שׁוּב) to receive your new identity, your new life, in Messiah. To "repent" is to escape from the default mode of life to enter into a new realm of existence itself. It is an abandonment of the old life and nature – those self-serving assumptions driven by fear – so that we can walk in wonder and newness of life. So renew your minds, chaverim! Be young and tender at heart. Though the outer may self waste away, the inner self empowered and sustained for this very day and hour. Shabbat Shalom! [Hebrew for Christians]

2.4.22 • Facebook

we cannot hold on to the old ways. we must let go of the past (tense)

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Achievement unlocked 2watermelon gaming chair. Ronald Wilson Reagan

40th President of the United States (January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989)

Nicknames: 'The Gipper'; 'The Great Communicator'; 'Dutch'

Born: February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois Died: June 5, 2004, in Los Angeles, California

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Father: John Edward Reagan Mother: Nelle Wilson Reagan Married:Jane Wyman (1917-2007), on June 25, 1940 (divorced in 1948); Nancy Davis (1923- ), on March 4, 1952 Children:Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941-2001); Michael Edward Reagan (adopted) (1945- ); Patricia Ann Reagan (1952- ); Ronald Prescott Reagan (1958- )

Religion: Disciples of Christ Education: Graduated from Eureka College (1932) Occupation: Actor, public official Political Party: Republican Other Government Positions:

Governor of California, 1967-75

Presidential Salary: $200,000/year + $50,000 expense account

Presidential Election Results: YearPopular VotesElectoral Votes 1976James E. Carter, Jr.40,827,394297Gerald R. Ford39,145,977240Ronald Reagan1 1980Ronald Reagan43,267,489489James E. Carter, Jr.34,964,58349John B. Anderson5,588,014— 1984Ronald Reagan53,428,357525Walter F. Mondale36,930,92313

Vice President:George Bush (1981-89)

Cabinet:

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Secretary of State

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (1981-82)

George P. Schultz (1982-89)

Secretary of the Treasury

Donald T. Regan (1981-85)

James A. Baker, III (1985-88)

Nicholas F. Brady (1988-89)

Secretary of Defense

Caspar W. Weinberger (1981-87)

Frank C. Carlucci (1987-89)

Attorney General

William French Smith (1981-85)

Edwin Meese (1985-88)

Dick Thornburgh (1988-89)

Secretary of the Interior

James G. Watt (1981-83)

William P. Clark (1983-85)

Donald P. Hodel (1985-89)

Secretary of Agriculture

John R. Block (1981-86)

Richard E. Lyng (1986-89)

Secretary of Commerce

Malcolm Baldrige (1981-87)

C. William Verity (1987-89)

Secretary of Labor

Raymond J. Donovan (1981-85)

William Brock (1985-87)

Ann Dore McLaughlin (1987-89)

Secretary of Health and Human Services

Richard S. Schweiker (1981-83)

Margaret M. Heckler (1983-85)

Otis R. Bowen (1985-89)

Secretary of Education

Terrel H. Bell (1981-85)

William J. Bennett (1985-88)

Lauro F. Cavazos, Jr. (1988-89)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. (1981-89)

Secretary of Transportation

Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. (1981-83)

Elizabeth H. Dole (1983-87)

James H. Burnley (1987-89)

Secretary of Energy

James B. Edwards (1981-82)

Donald P. Hodel (1982-85)

John Herrington (1985-89)

Supreme Court Appointments:

Chief Justice

William H. Rehnquist (1986-2005)

Associate Justice

Sandra Day O’Connor (1981-2006)

Antonin Scalia (1986- )

Anthony M. Kennedy (1988- )

Notable Events:

1981

On March 30, Reagan was shot in an assassination attempt by John W. Hinkley, Jr. outside of the Washington, D.C. Hilton Hotel.

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Internet Biographies:

Ronald Reagan — from The Presidents of the United States of America

Compiled by the White House.

Ronald Reagan — from American Presidents: Life Portraits — C-SPAN

Biographical information, trivia, key events, video, and other reference materials. Website created to accompany C-SPAN’s 20th Anniversary Television Series, American Presidents: Life Portraits.

Ronald Reagan — from The American President

From the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, in addition to information on the Presidents themselves, they have first lady and cabinet member biographies, listings of presidential staff and advisers, and timelines detailing significant events in the lives of each administration.

Ronald Reagan — from Character Above All

From a PBS broadcast of the same name, this essay excerpt by Peggy Noonan discusses some of the issues and events that molded Reagan.

Historical Documents:

First Inaugural Address (1981)

Second Inaugural Address (1985)

A Time for Choosing ('The Speech') (1964)

President Reagan’s Speech to the House of Commons (Evil Empire Speech) (1982)

President Reagan’s Speech at Pointe de Hoc, Normandy, France (The 40th Anniversary of D-Day) (1984)

President Reagan’s Address at the U.S.-French Ceremony at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France (The 40th Anniversary of D-Day) (1984)

President Reagan’s Speech on the Challenger Disaster (1986)

Former President Reagan’s Speech at the National Republican Convention (1992)

President Reagan’s Speech on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative (1993)

Media Resources:

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Audio

From his first State of the Union address on January 26, 1982. (0:56)

MP3 (445K)

From the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University.

Audio & Video

The American Presidency Projects’s Presidential Audio/Video Archive for Ronald Reagan site

Other Internet Resources:

Ronald Reagan Filmology— from the Internet Movie Database

List of Reagan screen credits including Code of the Secret Service (1939), Knute Rockne, All American (1940), and Bedtime for Bonzo (1951).

Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Foundation

Tourist information for the Library, calendar of events, and an online catalog of your favorite Reagan attire from the Museum. Located in Simi Valley, California.

Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library and Museum

Location and hours of operation information, plus a description of the exhibits.

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Transcripts from the White House Situation Room after Reagan was shot.

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Reagan was the fifth left-handed president of the United States.

At 69 years old, Reagan was the oldest elected president.

At 93 years old, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald W. Reagan lived longer than any other U.S. President. Ford lived longer than Reagan did. Note: these figures came from entering each president’s birth and death dates into the “Date Duration” tool found on timeanddate.com (http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html.)

In the 1980 election, Reagan won in 46 out of 50 states. The only states he did not win in were Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, or West Virginia. He also did not win the District of Columbia.

In the 1984 election, Reagan won in 49 out of 50 states. The only state he did not win in was Minnesota, and he lost by a very small margin there. He also did not win the District of Columbia.

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