Ronald Reagan Research Paper

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Over the past century Presidents have been required to make different decisions for our country. But most of those decisions have gone through some sort of legislature, such as Congress or the Senate. Ronald Reagan’s decision to bomb Libya was all his own and was made with just the approval from the President. As Ronald Reagan said “There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” Reagan had the courage to make a huge decision on his own because he knew it would be the right decision for his country. ''Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary we shall do it again.'' (Ronald Reagan) every President should do what they think is necessary to protect the people and to protect the country itself and the decision to bomb Libya was an important decision to stop Muammar el-Qaddafi,
Schaefer 2 the Libyan leader. If not for that decision Libya could have retaliated in a more violent way, but the bombing gave them the message to not attack the United States.
Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois. Ronald Reagan wasn’t always a politician, before he realized he wanted to go into politics Reagan was an actor. Reagan starred in more than fifty movies and he even became president of the Screen Actors Guild (Bio.com). While president of the Screen Actors Guild Reagan met future wife Nancy (Davis) Reagan. After his acting career Reagan decided that politics was his calling. So to get his political career jumpstarted he ran for governor of California and won. He served as governor of California for two terms before he decided to run for president of the United States. At first he was a liberal but chose to run for president under the Republi...

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...ssets between the United States and Libya. On April 14th the United States decided to retaliate in a big way with air strikes against Tripoli and Benghazi. The attacks were led by navy attack jets based in the Mediterranean and the bombers were from bases in England. The targets were chosen based on their connections with terrorist activities. Even before the raid was over Reagan went on national television to discuss the air
Schaefer 6 strikes. When making this decision Reagan went strictly on what he felt was the right decision he had no input from the Senate or Congress. As life goes on the United States will have more and more Presidents who will make unilateral decisions. Meaning that they will make decisions based on what they feel is right for our nation. Without these decisions our country may have gotten involved in warfare that could have been avoided.

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