Ronald Wilson Reagan

February 6, 1911- June 5, 2004. The fortieth President of the United States from 1981-1989. Considered by many to be the greatest American President, Ronald Reagan's greatest accomplishments include leading America peacefully through the Cold War, reducing the size of the federal government, lowering taxes, promoting a free economy, and staunchly opposing socialism and communism, and ending the Cold War in victory for the United Staes. Reagan also served two terms as governor of California from 1967–1975.

In one of his most famous challenges to Soviet Communism in Europe, he publicly uttered the words, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," before the tearing down of the Berlin Wall separating East and West Germany. He also introduced the idea of "Reaganomics" in which the rich would spend money which would trickle down to the poor.