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Presidential library and museum for U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Simi Valley, California
Ronald Reagan's oft‑quoted line appears in several of his speeches in nearly identical form: "You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey o...
Available sources in this packet do not include direct copies of President Ronald Reagan’s White House physicians’ reports about his personal mental health from 1981–1989; instead, the materials focus...
On March 30, 1981, John W. Hinckley Jr. fired six shots outside the Washington Hilton, wounding President Ronald Reagan and three others; Reagan was struck once by a bullet that lodged an inch from hi...
The Twenty‑Fifth Amendment’s Section 3 — the president’s voluntary, written transfer of powers to the vice president — has been used a handful of times for planned medical procedures, most notably by ...
Politicians and media have repeatedly treated public calls to “invoke the 25th Amendment” as if they were synonymous with an imminent, formal constitutional removal, even though the amendment contains...
Ronald Reagan publicly announced that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in a handwritten letter dated November 5, 1994, a disclosure repeatedly cited by the Reagan Library and major media...
Ronald Reagan used the line that “anyone…can come to live in America and become an American” in more than one public remark, and the phrase appears in Reagan Foundation quote collections, a speech at ...
Several books and memoirs — notably ’s My Father at 100, ’s Reporting Live, and the posthumously published Reagan Diaries — have fueled debate about whether signs of cognitive decline appeared in befo...
The available records show ; contemporary reporting from 1989 described widespread administrative autopen use but did not record a discrete legal challenge or formal policy change in that decade. Late...