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MAKING THE GIPPER: Hollywood made Reagan second fiddle--but trained him for his lead role...
...really believed in Star Wars were the military leadership of the Soviet Union. The Zap! Pow! Bam! comic-book defense strategy reinforced Moscow's growing despair about the future and hastened the end of the cold war. And that, finally, is what has proved most galling to the Gipper's ideological opponents: his glossy Hollywood optimism proved more supple than the professional pessimism of the intellectual left. Ultimately, Reagan's sloppy and often insensitive domestic governance will have little impact on his place in history. His willingness to break the law and defy Congress by funding the contras in Nicaragua...
...TIME 100, our list of the most influential people of the 20th century, culminating in Albert Einstein as Person of the Century. I oversaw the first installment, Leaders and Revolutionaries, and I still remember the heated debates about whether we should pick Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan (the Gipper won out) and whether Joseph Stalin should join the list with Adolf Hitler (he didn't make...
Dartboard realizes some Republicans worship the Gipper as though he were a golden god, but alas, the man is a mortal—and he wasn’t a particularly good president, either. For astronomically inflating the deficit and absentmindedly posing for photo ops while the “evil empire” went under on the other side of the planet, Reagan’s moniker has already been slapped on an aircraft carrier, a federal building—hell! even our nation’s capital has an airport in his name...
LOOKING BACK AT THE REAGAN YEARS Walk down memory lane with President Ronald Reagan in our online gallery www.time.com/reagancovers featuring his 39 previous appearances on the cover of TIME, from October 1966 to August 1993. For a comprehensive look at the Gipper's legacy, click on www.time.com/newsfiles/reagan...