"Question-and-Answer Session with Reporters Helen Thomas and Jim Gerstenzang on the President's Recovery Period"
Press conference
By: Ronald Reagan
Date: April 22, 1981
Source: Reagan, Ronald. "Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters Helen Thomas and Jim Gerstenzang on the President's Recovery Period." Available online at http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1981/42281a.... ; website home page: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu (accessed June 9, 2003).
About the Author: Ronald Reagan (1911–) was born in Tampico, Illinois. After graduating from Eureka College, Reagan worked as a sports broadcaster for a Davenport, Iowa radio station. In 1937, while covering spring training in California, Reagan signed a contract with Warner Brothers, a movie studio. Reagan eventually starred in over fifty films. In 1964, he retired from acting and was elected governor of...
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