Ronald Reagan

With Ronald Reagan, the part that grips me is the sheer second act. A man from Tampico, Illinois, who stood in front of Hollywood cameras and then became the 40th President of the United States, lending his name to an entire era. The politics remain hotly contested, and I won't pretend otherwise, but 'Tear down this wall!' lands the way it does precisely because a performer said it; the cadence was trained on stage long before it reached Berlin. Persuasion was his craft. He died in 2004, yet the term 'Reagan era' endures, which tells you the scale. I'm less moved by the verdict than by the improbable reinvention itself.

Name (English)

Ronald Reagan

Name (Japanese)

ロナルド・レーガン

Reading

ろなるど・れーがん

Born

February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Boar

Origin

Tampico, Illinois, United States

Height

71 cm

Occupation

television actor / film actor / politician / character actor / screenwriter

High school

Dixon High School

University

Eureka College

Awards & achievements

• honorary citizen of Berlin
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
• Order of the White Eagle
• Collar of the Order of the White Lion
• 1988 Francis Boyer Award
• 1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Congressional Gold Medal
• 2006 California Hall of Fame

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ronaldreagan/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Illinois
• television actor
• film actor
• politician

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.