Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
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Ronald Reagan
40th US president (1911-2004). A Hollywood actor turned California governor, he won 1980 in a landslide. Reaganomics paired tax cuts with a defence build-up tripling debt; he denounced the USSR yet signed the INF Treaty.
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