Which section of the Ronald Reagan Wiki page is your favorite?

[Skwink]

Link for the lazy

I'd have to say mine is this one. I'd make a poll but I wouldn't be able to fit all the options on it.

 

[Agent327]

The one with the mostest pictures.

 

[_random_]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Secret_FBI_informant_in_Hollywood

 

[Borachio]

Dunno. But there's this:

Amid the Red Scare in the late 1940s, Reagan provided the FBI with names of actors within the motion picture industry whom he believed to be communist sympathizers,[43] sometime based on little actual evidence.[44] As president of the Screen Actors' Guild, he provided to the FBI access to the organization's records on dozens of members. In exchange for Reagan's cooperation in helping to spy on Guild members, the FBI agreed to spy on Reagan's estranged children and to report the results back to Reagan

Oh right, that's the same as random's.

But, all things considered, he doesn't seem to have been a much better or much worse President than most of the others.

 

[bhsup]

I rather like these...

Since he left office, historians have reached a consensus,[309] as summarized by British historian M. J. Heale, who finds that scholars now concur that Reagan rehabilitated conservatism, turned the nation to the right, practiced a considerably pragmatic conservatism that balanced ideology and the constraints of politics, revived faith in the presidency and in American self-respect, and contributed to victory in the Cold War.

He was notable amongst post–World War II presidents as being convinced that the Soviet Union could be defeated rather than simply negotiated with,[238] a conviction that was vindicated by Gennadi Gerasimov, the Foreign Ministry spokesman under Gorbachev, who said that Star Wars was "very successful blackmail. ... The Soviet economy couldn't endure such competition."

Take that, revisionists who say Reagan had nothing to do with the cold war ending.

 

[peter grimes]

@VCRW - your quote does nothing to change my opinion that whoever held the presidency would be credited with in the exact same way. In other words, the USSR was bound to unravel, whether or not Reagan was the sitting President.

 

[JollyRoger]

This would be it:

President Reagan professed ignorance

 

[Azale]

In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, and ordered an invasion of Grenada.

Something about the juxtaposition of "invasion of Granada" with "in his first term" just makes me chortle in a smug way.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Where it mentions Bedtime for Bonzo. Words ending in "zo" are funny.

EDIT.....but not as funny as the post above me. Nice one.

 

[ace99]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Ronald_Reagan

 

[Bugfatty300]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Assassination_attempt

Mostly for John Hinkly who was a pretty interesting nut job, but also for the classy way Reagan handled himself despite being critically wounded. Unfortunately not everyone was so lucky.

 

[_random_]

This would be it:

Good one.

 

[kochman]

But, all things considered, he doesn't seem to have been a much better or much worse President than most of the others.

His re-election victory spread shows better... 525 votes, the most ever, almost 60/40... that's pretty intense.

This is my favorite part:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#End_of_the_Cold_War

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The part that mentions SCP-1981.

 

[Formaldehyde]

My favorite parts are events which apparently don't even appear in Reagan's Wikipedia entry.

How he nearly caused WWIII by reviving the Cold War fear mongering long after it was already over and the Soviet Union was no longer any real threat. That it would soon collapse on its own. How Reagan eventually changed that position after he discovered that he nearly caused over 150 million Americans to die.

How Reagan did nothing about AIDs for years because he and his advisers thought it was his god getting vengeance on homosexuals.

How Reagan used a soothsayer to decide when it was safe to travel and hold important meetings after he was shot. How it directly affected national security because the soothsayer had no clearance despite being told highly sensitive information.

 

[kochman]

Haters gonna hate

 

[_random_]

My favorite parts are events which apparently don't even appear in Reagan's Wikipedia entry.

How he nearly caused WWIII by reviving the Cold War fear mongering long after it was already over and the Soviet Union was no longer any real threat. That it would soon collapse on its own. How Reagan eventually changed that position after he discovered that he nearly caused over 150 million Americans to die.

How Reagan did nothing about AIDs for years because he and his advisers thought it was his god getting vengeance on homosexuals.

How Reagan used a soothsayer to decide when it was safe to travel and hold important meetings after he was shot. How it directly affected national security because the soothsayer had no clearance despite being told highly sensitive information.

That's not what the OP asked though.

 

[Skwink]

My favorite parts are events which apparently don't even appear in Reagan's Wikipedia entry.

How he nearly caused WWIII by reviving the Cold War fear mongering long after it was already over and the Soviet Union was no longer any real threat. That it would soon collapse on its own. How Reagan eventually changed that position after he discovered that he nearly caused over 150 million Americans to die.

How Reagan did nothing about AIDs for years because he and his advisers thought it was his god getting vengeance on homosexuals.

How Reagan used a soothsayer to decide when it was safe to travel and hold important meetings after he was shot. How it directly affected national security because the soothsayer had no clearance despite being told highly sensitive information.

You're a really fun guy to hang around with Form, you know that?

 

[bombshoo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#See_also

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

You're a really fun guy to hang around with Form, you know that?

Not all of us have the ability to reproduce the timeless comedy encapsulated by the original post