OBITUARY: Ronald Wilson Reagan.(Features)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: June 7, 2004 | Copyright information

RONALD Reagan, theBmovie star who became the 40th President of the United States, was the only professional actor ever to have reached the White House.

Throughout his two terms, from 1981 to1989,Reagan's brand of Republican conviction politics ensured a firm and enduring friendship with Margaret Thatcher,and the US-UnitedKingdom special relationship was never closer than during those years.

Soviet-US relations were in a parlous state,especially as Reagan had ...

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