Ronald Wilson Reagan stood out for his ability to make complicated subjects understandable.

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Now death has done all that death can do, and as Ronald Wilson Reagan goes his way, we are left with the joyful hope he shared.

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Since the arrival of President Ronald Wilson Reagan, it has become a matter of conservative orthodoxy that tax cuts for the rich will, inevitably, lead to economic prosperity.

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The war over the size of government one that began in the modern era with the arrival of President Ronald Wilson Reagan and has represented the front lines of the ideological battle between Democrats, Republicans and, of late, Tea Party devotees appears, at long last, to be coming to an end.

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Mr Lungren is presented as the natural successor to Ronald Reagan, with Mr Wilson downgraded to a temporary aberration.

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