It was the second-most lopsided presidential election in modern U.S. history after Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 victory over Alfred M. Landon, in which he won 98.5%, or 523, of the (then-total) 531 electoral votes.Soon after taking office as president, Reagan began implementing sweeping new political and economic initiatives. The talks culminated in the INF Treaty, which shrank both countries' nuclear arsenals. Reagan began his presidency during the decline of the Soviet Union, which ultimately collapsed nearly three years after he left office. Ronald Reagan wrote that his mother 'always expected to find the best in people and often did.' In 1941, exhibitors voted him the fifth most popular star from the younger generation in Hollywood.Reagan played his favorite acting role in 1942's Kings Row, where he plays a double amputee who recites the line 'Where's the rest of me? '—later used as the title of his 1965 autobiography.
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