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    Alzheimer's Letter

    On November 5, 1994, former President Ronald Reagan published a letter to the American people announcing his diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. 

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    Book Excerpt: President Reagan, The Role of a Lifetime

    Read the preface to the 2000 edition of the book, "President Reagan, The Role of a Lifetime," by Lou Cannon.

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    Campaign Against Drug Abuse

    Joined by his wife Nancy, President Reagan address the nation about combatting drug abuse.

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    Economic Recovery Program

    President Ronald Reagan's speech to a joint session of Congress on the Program for Economic Recovery, April 28, 1981.

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    Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy

    On March 4, 1987, President Reagan delivered a speech from the Oval Office on the Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy

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    National Security and SDI

    In a televised address to the nation, delivered on March 23, 1983, President Reagan announced his vision of a world safe from nuclear threat. His Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), later dubbed "Star Wars" by the press, is an idea that remains controversial to this day.

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    Reagan's Farewell Speech

    In 1989, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan delivered this farewell speech.

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    The Brotherhood of Man

    One year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, President Ronald Reagan dedicated Breakthrough, a structure sculpted from eight sections of the Berlin Wall, as the centerpiece of the Westminster College Cold War Memorial. 

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    The Evil Empire

    Although President Ronald Reagan did not actually use the phrase "evil empire" in this June 8, 1982 speech, he described the collapse of global communism as inevitable.

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    Roosevelt's Message to Congress

    Read President Theodore Roosevelt's message to Congress after returning from the Canal Zone in Panama.

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    Berlin After World War II

    Raymond D'Addario assigned by the U.S. Army to photograph the Nuremberg War Trials from 1945 to 1946. D'Addario also spent time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin, which was occupied by Soviet, American, British and French troops. There he documented the hardships of Berliners' daily lives. Browse some of these images.

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    Queen Bees are Stinging Mad

    Read a July 6, 1969 excerpt from The New York Daily News.