Curiosidades

Amidst the panic at the hospital after Reagan's assassination attempt, a Secret Service agent was asked information for Reagan's admission forms. The intern asked for Reagan's last name. The agent, who was quite surprised at the question, responded "Reagan". The intern then asked for Reagan's first name. The agent, again surprised, responded "Ronald". The intern didn't look up, instead he unassumingly asked for Reagan's address. The agent paused for a few moments in great surprise before saying "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue". That got the intern's attention.

While President of the USA, his Secret Service codename was "Rawhide".

In his 1984 presidential re-election victory he received more electoral votes than any president in history, winning 525 out of a possible 538 votes, and ranked third among electoral vote percentages in contested elections, winning 97.6% of the electoral vote and 58.8% of the popular vote. Reagan won 49 out of 50 states against his Democratic opponent Walter Mondale, losing only Mondale's home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. Reportedly, Reagan's campaign wanted to recount the narrow Minnesota results to give him a unanimous victory, but Reagan himself rejected the idea, as he had already won the election and it would serve no purpose other than to humiliate Mondale further.

As Captain in the U.S. Army, Reagan signed Major Clark Gable's discharge papers in June 1944.

His last public appearance was at Richard Nixon's funeral in April 1994.

After his presidency he and Nancy Reagan moved to 666 St. Cloud Road in Bel Air, California which Ronald lived in until his death. Nancy had the address changed from 666 to 668 due to the fact 666 is known as the devil's number. The house is down the street from 805 St. Cloud Road, the house used in the TV show Um Maluco no Pedaço (1990).

He was the first president to beat the "zero factor." Before him, every president elected in a year ending in zero (beginning with 1840) had died in office.

Influenced by the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver: Motorista de Táxi (1976), John Hinckley Jr.--the son of a prominent Republican family from Colorado--tried to assassinate Reagan in 1981 in order to impress actress Jodie Foster. Foster had won her first Oscar nomination for the film, in which Robert De Niro's character, "Travis Bickle", tried to assassinate a liberal Democratic presidential candidate to impress Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), the woman he is obsessed with. Hinckley was acquitted by a jury on reasons of insanity and remained incarcerated in a psychiatric facility until 2016, when he was released from psychiatric care. As of early 2022, Hinckley has maintained a YouTube channel where he posts his music.

Continued to play golf with several friends including Bob Hope and Kevin Costner until 1996.

Had a photographic memory.

His state funeral service took place on the 25th anniversary of the death of his close friend and ally John Wayne.

On Tuesday, March 14, 1972, during his second term as governor of California, he expunged the criminal record of country-western singer Merle Haggard, granting him a full pardon.

The first US President since John F. Kennedy to die before his predecessor.

Although he was 30 when the United States entered World War II, he volunteered for military service. He was turned down for combat duty due to his poor eyesight.

Until Donald Trump, Reagan was the oldest man to serve as US President. He took office only 17 days before his 70th birthday and left office 17 days before his 78th. He was, in fact, born earlier than four of the previous five presidents were: John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.

For two weeks in 1954, Reagan opened as a stand-up comic at the Ramona Room of the Hotel Last Frontier in Las Vegas, Nevada.

His closest friend in Hollywood was Robert Taylor.

Spent World War II making Army training films for Hal Roach Studios.

Reagan and his wife Nancy were close friends of Rock Hudson, whose death in 1985 spurred the President to provide funds for AIDS research.

Member of the Eureka College cheerleading squad.

He hosted Warren Beatty at the White House for a screening of the latter's film Reds (1981). Despite their vast political differences, Reagan and Beatty were old friends as Hollywood actors.

Richard Nixon may have been the only US President to have actually met Elvis Presley, but Reagan's daughter Maureen Reagan appeared with Presley in Com Caipira Não se Brinca (1964).

(May 16th 2002) Awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal for ending the "Cold War" against Russia, along with his wife Nancy Reagan, for fighting substance abuse among American youths.

Governor of California. Term of service: 2 January 1967 - 6 January 1975.

In 1978, after having served as governor of California but before running for President, Reagan came out against The Briggs Initiative, a ballot initiative introduced by a right-wing Republican state senator named John Briggs, which would have made it illegal for homosexuals to be employed as teachers in the California school system. Reagan strongly and vocally opposed the measure, saying that it infringed upon basic human rights and bordered on being unconstitutional. He is largely credited for turning public opinion against the measure and it was defeated in the election.

Was considered to be the most conservative United States President since Herbert Hoover.

The former President was buried at his presidential library in Simi Valley, California.

Reagan was the first "true blue" conservative to win the Republican nomination and be elected President since Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

Was a sports announcer in Des Moines, Iowa, before becoming an actor in 1937.

Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1989.

Although Reagan advertised cigarettes during his time in Hollywood, he is believed never to have taken up the habit in real life. Some early photographs show him holding a pipe, but it never seems to have been lit. In later life he was very anti-smoking, especially since his best friend Robert Taylor died of lung cancer at the age of 57, and his older brother Neil Reagan lost a vocal chord in cancer surgery.

Reagan is one of two US Presidents to be married and divorced (from Jane Wyman in 1948). Donald Trump is the other person to be married and divorced,.

Was the first guest of honor on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, in 1973.

While as an actor he is thought of mostly as a Western/Action-Adventure star, his two best-remembered lines were from straight dramatic roles and delivered while he was flat on his back in bed, his character either dying or horribly crippled: "Win just one more for the Gipper!" in Criador de Campeões (1940) and "Where's the rest of me?" in Em Cada Coração um Pecado (1942).

The first President since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms in office.

He never actually broadcast Cubs games, he re-created them from telegraph reports while working for Des Moines radio station WHO in the 1930s. He demonstrated the technique of making it sound like he was actually at the games to Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray when he made a guest appearance during part of a Cubs telecast in the 1980s.

Became the first president to have a state funeral in Washington, D.C. since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973.

knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, received an honorary British knighthood, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. This entitled him to the use of the post-nominal letters GCB, but did not entitle him to be known as "Sir Ronald Reagan". (15 de junho de 1989)

Only US President to head a labor union (as president of the Screen Actors Guild 1947-1952/1959-1960).

Inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2011.

40th president of the United States (20 January 1981 - 20 January 1989).

A month after his death, items from his burial and week-long public viewing were selling fast on the online auction site eBay. The company has sold 780 pieces of Reagan funeral memorabilia since June 11, 2004, for a total of $66,000. The items range from programs (sold for up to $1,525 each) from the interment at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA, to gratitude cards given to mourners who visited his casket.

Pictured on a USA 37¢ commemorative postage stamp issued 9 February 2005. When the first-class letter rate was raised to 39¢ in January 2006, the US Postal Service received an unprecedented number of requests to reissue the stamp at the higher value. The 39¢ postage stamp was issued on 14 June 2006, using the same design as the earlier stamp.

Longtime friend of Fess Parker.

When he was a young man, he had a part-time job as a lifeguard. He once had to retrieve an old man's dentures at the bottom of the pool and did so without hesitating.

Upon his Inauguration on January 20, 1981 Reagan became the oldest-living President. He held this distinction until his death on June 5, 2004.

Pictured on a nondenominated 'forever' USA commemorative postage stamp issued 10 February 2011, four days after the 100th anniversary of his birth. The original issue price was 44¢.

Spouses William Holden and Brenda Marshall served as Best Man and Matron of Honor at his wedding to Nancy Reagan in 1952.

Was presented with George Gipp's letterman's sweater by the University of Notre Dame football team on January 18, 1989, two days before leaving the White House, and his two-term Vice President, 'George Herbert Walker Bush', became President.

Originally a very liberal Democrat, Reagan officially joined the Republican Party in 1962, when he was 51 years old. He gave a highly acclaimed speech in support of Barry Goldwater during the 1964 Presidential election. He never endorsed a Democrat after Helen Gahagan in 1950 and voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. He also actively campaigned for Richard Nixon during the 1960 presidential election.