Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, the son of a shoe salesman with a drinking problem and a devout mother who believed in the goodness of people. He grew up in Dixon during the Depression, worked as a lifeguard, and learned to tell stories from his Irish father. He became a radio announcer, then a Hollywood actor, appearing in more than fifty films, never quite a leading man, but steady work, and he learned how to hit a mark and deliver a line with timing that would serve him the rest of his life. He married Jane Wyman, divorced, then married Nancy Davis, who became his closest adviser and fiercest protector.

Ronald Reagan is best known as a ruler. 40th President of the United States; communicator who reshaped late–Cold War strategy and domestic policy debates.

Ronald Reagan lived 1911-2004 CE, born in 1911 and died in 2004, during the contemporary period.

Yes, free. Anyone can ask Ronald Reagan, and a first question needs no account. Every answer is a Simulation in character, grounded in Ronald Reagan’s real life, work and era. A good first question is: "How do I take a complicated policy and turn it into a story people remember and repeat?"