Reagan at the Republican Convention		Forty-nine states (all but Minnesota and the District of Columbia) re-elected Ronald Reagan president by a landslide in November 1984.
He resisted: "I had a good job and a good life and, at fifty-four, the last thing I wanted to do was start a new career." (About his first try for governor in 1966)				The Inauguration
Reagan recovers after shooting		Still in critical condition and unable to speak through the tubes and oxygen mask, he wrote a note that read, "Can we rewrite this scene, beginning at the time I left the hotel?"
"[I]f that week produced [through the rescue of Grenada] one of the highest point of my eight years as president, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut had producedthe lowest of the low."				Memorial Service for slain Marines
Reagan working at the Ranch		Like other modern presidents, Reagan cherished a private place of escape: Rancho del Cielo, "Ranch in the Sky" - 688 acres high in the Santa Ynez mountains above Santa Barbara, California.
"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987				Reagan speaks at the Brandenburg Gate
Bush, Reagan and Gorbachev		As they said their farewells on the dock, both recalled that they - and the world - had come a long way since that day in Geneva in 1985 when the two men warily began their first meeting.
At their eighth and final economic summit together, Thatcher summed up her own and her nation's feelings about Reagan's America: Thank you, Mr. President Thank you for the summit. Thank you for your presidency. Thank you for your testament of belief. And God bless America.				Thatcher and Reagan

 
Sign on President Reagan's desk in the Oval Office:

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

 
-- A sentiment forgotten by many involved in political campaigns.