Ronald Reagan Net Worth

#Fact1His support for the UK during the Falklands War violated the Monroe Doctrine.2According to Soviet spy Jack Barsky, the Russians were afraid of three things: AIDS, Jewish people and Ronald Reagan; with Reagan taking the top spot.3His name is a Scottish form of the Old Norse name Ragnvaldr, meaning "advisory ruler" or "ruling council".4His surname comes from an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Ríagáin meaning "descendant of Riagán", meaning "impulsive".5The Stephen King novel Doctor Sleep has one of the characters describe Reagan as "still having an actor's hair after becoming President, and an actor's charming but untrustworthy smile".6Announced the Strategic Defense Initiative as "Star Wars" after Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977).7Favorite drink was fine wine from west coast vineyards.8Doug McClelland's 1983 book, "Hollywood on Ronald Reagan" contains comments from Reagan's show business colleagues. Virginia Christine, famous as Mrs. Olson, TV's spokeswoman for Folger's Coffee, worked with the future President as recently as "The Killers." She tersely commented on her co-star, "I just can't place him.".9Inducted into the Eureka College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1982.10Mentioned in the lyrics of the Sting song "Russians". Released in 1985 while Reagan was President, the song is about the escalating tensions of the Cold War and was a critique of the way politicians on both sides were refusing to back down. It includes the line "Mr. Reagan says we will protect you, I don't subscribe to this point of view".11Favorite film was High Noon (1952).12While married to actress Jane Wyman, the couple resided at 9137 Cordell Drive in Los Angeles (CA). The estate, built in 1942, fetched $8.5 million when sold in September 2012.13Richard Nixon may have been the only US President to have actually met Elvis Presley, but Reagan's daughter Maureen Reagan appeared with Presley in Kissin' Cousins (1964).14Was a Boy Scout.15He hosted Warren Beatty at the White House for a screening of the latter's film Reds (1981). Despite their vast political differences, Reagan and Beatty were old friends as Hollywood actors.16Inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2011.17As a child, Reagan's daughter Patti Davis hated political talk so much that whenever politics came up at the dinner table she would deliberately fall out of her seat. This always changed the topic.18Reagan and Jane Wyman had a daughter Christine who was born June 26, 1947, and lived 9 hours.19Pictured on a nondenominated 'forever' USA commemorative postage stamp issued 10 February 2011, four days after the 100th anniversary of his birth. The original issue price was 44¢.20Erroneously attributed the "Ten Cannots" to Abraham Lincoln during the 1992 Republican National Convention ("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong, etc.") Lincoln has been widely and inaccurately credited with the list, but it was actually written by Rev. William J.H. Boetcker in 1916, over 60 years after Lincoln's assassination. Maryland Lieutenant Governor (and future RNC chairman) Michael Steele made the same mistake during his speech to the 2004 Republican Convention.21The first US President since John F. Kennedy to die before his predecessor.22Both of his children with Nancy Reagan, Ron Reagan and Patti Davis, became liberal Democrats.23Longtime friend of Fess Parker.24To date (2013), first (and only) divorced US President (from Jane Wyman in 1948).25Only US President to head a labor union (as president of the Screen Actors Guild 1947-1952/1959-1960).26Although Reagan advertised cigarettes during his time in Hollywood, he is believed never to have taken up the habit in real life. Some early photographs show him holding a pipe, but it never seems to have been lit. In later life he was very anti-smoking, especially since his best friend Robert Taylor died of lung cancer at the age of 57, and his older brother Neil Reagan lost a vocal chord in cancer surgery.27Honored world champion surfer David Nuuhiwa with a gold medal for Merit.28Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 446-452. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.29He was of Irish descent on his father's side, and of Scottish and English descent on his mother's side. His paternal grandfather, John Michael Reagan, was born in Peckham, co. Kent, England, to Irish parents, and his paternal grandmother, Jennie Cusick, was born in Dixon, Illinois, also to Irish parents. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Wilson, also an Illinois native, was of Scottish descent (partly by way of Canada), and his maternal grandmother, Mary Ann Elsey, was English, from Epsom, co. Surrey. His paternal great-grandfather, Michael Regan, emigrated to the US from Ballyporeen, Ireland, in the 1860s. Ballyporeen, a tiny rural farming town in County Tipperary, is located in the south-central part of the country and its inhabitants are frequently referred to as "Midlanders". The Regans were one of three primary families, or "clans", that populated St. Mary's Parish in the village of Ballyporeen. The Ronald Reagan Visitors Centre was built down the street from St. Mary's Church following his visit to his ancestral home in the mid-1980s. The spelling of the family name Regan was changed to Reagan after they arrived in the US.30As Captain in the U.S. Army, Reagan signed Major Clark Gable's discharge papers in June 1944.31Emceed the first PATSY Awards show (1951) where Francis the Talking Mule was the very first winner. PATSY is an acronym for: Picture Animal Top Star of the Year.32The oldest man to serve as US President, he took office only 17 days before his 70th birthday and left office 17 days before his 78th. He was, in fact, older than four of the previous five presidents: John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.33Continued to play golf with several friends including Bob Hope and Kevin Costner until 1996.34Although Reagan did not formally become a Republican until 1962, he never endorsed a Democrat after Helen Gahagan 1950 and voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. He also actively campaigned for Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election.35Underwent hip replacement surgery in January 2001.36Reagan was the first "true blue" conservative to win the Republican nomination and be elected President since Calvin Coolidge in 1924.37His closest friend in Hollywood was Robert Taylor.38Reagan and his wife Nancy were close friends of Rock Hudson, whose death in 1985 spurred the President to provide funds for AIDS research.39Spent World War II making Army training films for Hal Roach Studios.40His state funeral service took place on the 25th anniversary of the death of his close friend and ally John Wayne.41His famous nickname "The Great Communicator", was not earned but was requested. Reagan asked for it during his farewell address in 1989.42While as an actor he is thought of mostly as a Western/Action-Adventure star, his two best-remembered lines were from straight dramatic roles and delivered while he was flat on his back in bed, his character either dying or horribly crippled: "Win just one more for the Gipper!" in Knute Rockne All American (1940) and "Where's the rest of me?" in Kings Row (1942).43After his presidency he and Nancy Reagan moved to 666 St. Cloud Road in Bel Air, California which Ronald lived in until his death. Nancy had the address changed from 666 to 668 due to the fact 666 is known as the devil's number. The house is down the street from 805 St. Cloud Road, the house used in the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990).44During the 1980 Presidential campaign, incumbent President Jimmy Carter publicly criticized Reagan for launching his campaign with a speech on states' rights in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers immortalized in the film Mississippi Burning (1988). Carter, a former governor of the Deep South state of Georgia who had run as a racial moderate in 1970, noted that the phrase "states' rights" was a code word for segregation, as Southerners opposed to federally mandated integration of the races under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 claimed that such mandates "violated" state laws and local customs and were unconstitutional abrogations of the rights of their states to police themselves. Reagan, who had used his opposition to state equal housing laws to defeat Gov. Edmund G. Brown in the 1965 California governor's race, disavowed any racist intent and the issue was ignored by most voters and pundits.45knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, received an honorary British knighthood, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. This entitled him to the use of the post-nominal letters GCB, but did not entitle him to be known as "Sir Ronald Reagan". [June 1989]46Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).47His last public appearance was at Richard Nixon's funeral in April 1994.48Member of the Eureka College cheerleading squad.49Was considered to be the most conservative United States President since Herbert Hoover.50Received more electoral votes than any other president in history, winning by 525 (out of 538) in his 1984 re-election campaign when he racked up 49 of 50 states in beating Jimmy Carter's vice president Walter Mondale.51His first bid for the Presidency was actually in 1968, when he finished 3rd in the balloting at the GOP national convention behind Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. As the Constitution, in practical terms, forbids the president and vice president from being from the same state (a rule that binds the electoral college), Reagan was not considered for the vice presidency when Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973. Besides, though Reagan supported his fellow Californian Nixon for president, the two were never close. In 1976, he challenged incumbent Gerald Ford (the man whom Nixon appointed Vice President to replace Agnew) for the Republican nomination, won several primaries, but narrowly lost the nomination at the convention. Though Ford confided in people he was considering a run for the presidency in 1980 to forestall Reagan's ascendancy, he never did and Reagan won the nomination and the presidency.52Rumored studio publicity claimed that he was scheduled to play Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942); however, this was never the case.53He was the first former American president to die in the 21st century.54Pictured on a USA 37¢ commemorative postage stamp issued 9 February 2005. When the first-class letter rate was raised to 39¢ in January 2006, the US Postal Service received an unprecedented number of requests to reissue the stamp at the higher value. The 39¢ postage stamp was issued on 14 June 2006, using the same design as the earlier stamp.55Only United States President to have appeared in a shirt advertisement.56The former President was buried at his presidential library in Simi Valley, California.57The first President since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms in office.58Pictured on a 60¢ memorial postage stamp issued by the Republic of the Marshall Islands 4 July, 2004, the first memorial to be issued in his honor.59A month after his death, items from his burial and week-long public viewing were selling fast on the online auction site eBay. The company has sold 780 pieces of Reagan funeral memorabilia since June 11, 2004, for a total of $66,000. The items range from programs (sold for up to $1,525 each) from the interment at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA, to gratitude cards given to mourners who visited his casket.60He played Chicago Cubs hurler Grover Cleveland Alexander in the film, The Winning Team (1952). He also served temporarily, as a broadcaster for WGN Radio, which broadcasts Cubs baseball games.61In the film, American Beauty (1999), the Fitts family (Chris Cooper, Allison Janney and Wes Bentley) can be seen watching one of Reagan's wartime films, This Is the Army (1943).62He was offered, a role, in animation, of a guest appearance and an off screen voice, on The Simpsons (1989), but refused their offer.63He never actually broadcast Cubs games, he re-created them from telegraph reports while working for Des Moines radio station WHO in the 1930s. He demonstrated the technique of making it sound like he was actually at the games to Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray when he made a guest appearance during part of a Cubs telecast in the 1980s.64In 1978, after having served as governor of California but before running for President, Reagan came out against The Briggs Initiative, a ballot initiative introduced by a right-wing Republican state senator named John Briggs, which would have made it illegal for homosexuals to be employed as teachers in the California school system. Reagan strongly and vocally opposed the measure, saying that it infringed upon basic human rights and bordered on being unconstitutional. He is largely credited for turning public opinion against the measure and it was defeated in the election.65Had a photographic memory.66Became the first president to have a state funeral in Washington, D.C. since Lyndon Johnson in 1973.67Amidst the panic at the hospital after Reagan's assassination attempt, a Secret Service agent was asked information for Reagan's admission forms. The intern asked for Reagan's last name. The agent, who was quite surprised at the question, responded "Reagan". The intern then asked for Reagan's first name. The agent, again surprised, responded "Ronald". The intern didn't look up, instead he unassumingly asked for Reagan's address. The agent paused for a few moments in great surprise before saying "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue". That got the intern's attention.68At the time of his death he was the longest-living President of the United States, at age 93 years and 120 days. This record was broken by former President Gerald Ford on Monday, November 12, 2006. Their age difference, in days alone, was only 45 days. Reagan's lifetime lasted 34,088 days, and Ford's lasted 34,133 days.69Originally was a very liberal member of the Democratic Party, but eventually converted to the Republican Party in 1962, when he was fifty-one. He gave a highly acclaimed speech in support of Barry Goldwater during the 1964 Presidential election.70He was the first president to beat the "zero factor." Before him, every president elected in a year ending in zero (beginning with 1840) had died in office.71Influenced by the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver (1976), John Hinckley--the son of a prominent Republican family from Colorado--tried to assassinate Reagan in 1981 in order to impress actress Jodie Foster. Foster had won her first Oscar nomination for the film, in which Robert De Niro's character, "Travis Bickle", tried to assassinate a liberal Democratic presidential candidate to impress Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), the woman he is obsessed with. Hinckley was acquitted by a jury on reasons of insanity and (as of 2010) remains incarcerated in a psychiatric facility.72On Tuesday, March 14, 1972, during his second term as governor of California, he expunged the criminal record of country-western singer Merle Haggard, granting him a full pardon.73Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1989.74For two weeks in 1954, Reagan opened as a stand-up comic at the Ramona Room of the Hotel Last Frontier in Las Vegas, Nevada.75Although he was 30 when the United States entered World War II, he volunteered for military service. He was turned down for combat duty due to his poor eyesight.76Was the first guest of honor on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, in 1973.77Because of his Alzheimer's disease, he was unaware that his daughter Maureen Reagan had died. Wife Nancy Reagan chose not to tell him.78When Reagan's long-time friend and first Hollywood agent, studio mogul Lew Wasserman, died on 3 June 2002, AP reported that their friendship was the subject of a controversial book called "Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA and the Mob" (1988). The book reviewed the federal investgation into the Reagan- Wasserman relationship and charges that alleged payoffs were made in the 1950s by Wasserman's mammoth MCA agency to Reagan and some of his fellow officers of the Screen Actors Guild. Ultimately, Reagan was cleared in the inquiry.79(May 16th 2002) Awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal for ending the "Cold War" against Russia, along with his wife Nancy Reagan, for fighting substance abuse among American youths.80While President of the USA, his Secret Service codename was "Rawhide".81On Thursday, October 11th, 2001, he became the oldest ex-president in U. S. history, surpassing the previous record-holder, of John Adams. His own record was surpassed on Sunday, November 12, 2006, by Gerald Ford.82When he was a young man, he had a part-time job as a lifeguard. He once had to retrieve an old man's dentures at the bottom of the pool and did so without hesitating.83Younger brother of Neil Reagan (1908-1996).84Daughter--with first wife Jane Wyman--Maureen Reagan died on Wednesday, August 8, 2001, of malignant melanoma (skin cancer) at her Sacramento, California, home.85Father of Maureen Reagan and Michael Reagan with Jane Wyman.86Was portrayed on Saturday Night Live (1975) by at least eight different actors: Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, Charles Rocket, Harry Shearer, Robin Williams, Joe Piscopo, Phil Hartman, and Kevin Nealon.87Was presented with George Gipp's letterman's sweater by the University of Notre Dame football team on January 18, 1989, two days before leaving the White House, and his two-term Vice President, 'George Herbert Walker Bush', became President.88Member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.89Was a sports announcer in Des Moines, Iowa, before becoming an actor in 1937.90Son of John Edward Reagan and Nelle Clyde Wilson Reagan.91Graduate of Eureka College (1932).92President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952 and 1959-1960.93Governor of California. Term of service: 2 January 1967 - 6 January 1975.9440th president of the United States (20 January 1981 - 20 January 1989).95Spouses William Holden and Brenda Marshall served as Best Man and Matron of Honor at his wedding to Nancy Reagan in 1952.96Father of Ron Reagan and Patti Davis with Nancy Reagan.

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