Ronald Wilson Reagan - Palm Springs, CA
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N 33° 49.447 W 116° 32.968
11S E 541691 N 3742745
Located on Museum Drive in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum.
Waymark Code: WMT4PC
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/25/2016
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The Palm Springs Walk of Stars has memorials in several locations throughout the city, including here in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum.
This one honors Randolph Reagan and reads:
"RONALD WILSON REAGAN
40th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES"
Wikipedia (
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"Ronald Wilson Reagan ... February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader.
Raised in a poor family in small towns of northern Illinois, Ronald Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932 and worked as a sports announcer on several regional radio stations. After moving to Hollywood in 1937, he became an actor and starred in a few major productions. Reagan was twice elected as President of the Screen Actors Guild, the labor union for actors, where he worked to root out Communist influence. In the 1950s, he moved into television and was a motivational speaker at General Electric factories. Having been a lifelong Democrat, his views changed. He became a conservative and in 1962 switched to the Republican Party. In 1964, Reagan's speech, "A Time for Choosing", in support of Barry Goldwater's floundering presidential campaign, earned him national attention as a new conservative spokesman. Building a network of supporters, he was elected Governor of California in 1966. As governor, Reagan raised taxes, turned a state budget deficit to a surplus, challenged the protesters at the University of California, ordered National Guard troops in during a period of protest movements in 1969, and was re-elected in 1970. He twice ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for the U.S. presidency in 1968 and 1976; four years later, he easily won the nomination outright, going on to be elected the oldest President, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980."