Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was a human political leader who lived on Earth during the 20th and 21st centuries. From 1981 to 1989, he served as President of the United States of America, becoming one of the most influential leaders of the late 20th Century.

Reagan arose to the position of President during the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. He advocated a foreign policy of a strong national defence, while also promoting diplomacy with the Soviet Union.

As part of this foreign policy, he proposed a comprehensive space-based defense program, deemed the Strategic Defense Initiative, which would provide a missle defense shield against Soviet nuclear weaponry. Gary Seven was somewhat skeptical of this program, noting that he took no pleasure in seeing human conflicts being carried out in space.

When Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Reagan publicly supported the man's policies of reform for the communist nation. The two leaders formed a succesful diplomatic relationship, which would eventually lead to the end of hostilities between the two world powers.

During a diplomatic conference held between President Reagan and Premier Gorbachev, Roberta Lincoln prevented an assasination attempt on Reagan's life when she discovered that a cup of jelly beans being brought to the President--a food which he was known to be fond of--was poisoned. (TOS novel: The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)