Jun 21, 2004 · Reagan argued that communism "would not survive the imperative of freedom," Donatelli told U.S. News, while Bush argues that freedom will transform Iraq and other repressive societies in the...

Under the U.S. Constitution, the officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. [3] . The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] .

Feb 5, 2017 · George H.W. Bush was Ronald Reagan's vice president during both terms before becoming president himself. He was also Reagan's rival in 1980.

Aug 20, 2007 · Claim: A 1986 diary entry by President Ronald Reagan described George W. Bush as a "shiftless ne'er-do-well." Status: False. Example: [Collected via e-mail, August 2007]

Jul 21, 2024 · Since 1789 and the election of George Washington, America's first president, 45 individuals have served as the chief executive of the United States (Grover Cleveland was elected for two nonconsecutive terms, so he served as the 22nd and 24th president).

George H.W. Bush was changed forever by his time as a combat pilot in World War II. In 1992, President HW Bush seemed increasingly out of touch. A comparison of George Bush and Ronald...

Jul 30, 2000 · But it was Ronald Reagan's nomination of Governor Bush's father that bears special telling. Reagan's selection of Bush in Detroit represented a turnabout within six hours; it came only...

Jun 11, 2004 · Ronald Reagan believed that everything happened for a reason, and that we should strive to know and do the will of God. He believed that the gentleman always does the kindest thing. He believed that people were basically good, and had the right to be free.

Reagan served two terms and was succeeded by his vice president, George H. W. Bush, who won the 1988 presidential election. Reagan's 1980 landslide election resulted from a dramatic conservative shift to the right in American politics, including a loss of confidence in liberal , New Deal , and Great Society programs and priorities that had ...

Former President Joe Biden (D) left Trump a letter, continuing a tradition of presidents writing letters to their successors that Ronald Reagan (R) started in 1989. This page includes transition letters between presidents dating back to Reagan's letter to George H.W. Bush.