On November 25, 1986, President Reagan announced the creation of a Special Review Board to look into the matter; the following day, he appointed former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to serve as members. This commission was called the Tower Commission. Towards the end, the committee said that there was no evidence to say that Reagan had anything to do with the affair.
Maureen Reagan
Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (January 4, 1941 – August 8, 2001) was an American television and movie actress. She was the first child of Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman. Her brother was Michael Reagan (adopted). She also had a sister, Christine, who died shortly after birth. She also has a brother and sister from her father's second marriage, to Nancy Davis: Patti Davis and Ron Reagan.
Maureen Reagan died from melanoma in Granite Bay, California. She was aged 60.
Michael Reagan
Michael Edward Reagan (born John Flaugher; March 18, 1945) is an American radio show host. He is the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. He hosted the radio show "The Michael Reagan Talk Show".
He was born in Los Angeles, California to Irene Flaugher. Reagan has had small roles in movies and television shows since 1985, including "Falcon Crest" which starred his mother, Jane Wyman. In 1971 Reagan married Pamela Gail Putnam (born 1952). She is the daughter of Duane Putnam, who was then the Atlanta Falcons football line coach. The couple divorced in 1972.
Patti Davis
Patti Davis (born October 21, 1952) is an American actress, model and author. She is the daughter of late U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Reagan's second wife, Nancy Reagan.
Davis was born in Los Angeles. In 2013, she published a book called "Till Human Voices Wake Us".
Ron Reagan
Ronald Prescott "Ron" Reagan (born May 20, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American political commentator. He presents his commentary on the radio. He currently works for MSNBC as a political analyst.
Reagan is a Democrat and an atheist despite being the son of Republican President Ronald Reagan. His mother was Nancy Reagan. He is often incorrectly called Ronald Reagan Jr. or Ronald Reagan II. In 2011 he wrote a book on his father called "My Father at 100".
Eureka College
Eureka College is a Christian liberal arts college in the United States. It is in Eureka, Illinois. It was established in 1855. Abraham Lincoln once spoke on the campus of the college in 1856. Ronald Reagan graduated from the college in 1932. In 2010, Eureka College was made a national historic district by the National Park Service.
Lieutenant Governor of California
The Lieutenant Governor of California is an important political office in the state of California. If the Governor of California is unable to serve or dies in office, the Lieutenant Governor serves as Governor instead. The current Lieutenant Governor is Eleni Kounalakis. The office was created in 1849.
Robert Finch (American politician)
Robert Hutchison Finch (October 9, 1925 - October 10, 1995) was an American politician. He was a Republican politician from La Canada Flintridge, California. He served as the Lieutenant Governor of California under the term of Ronald Reagan from 1967 to 1969.
He was born in Tempe, Arizona. He was the son of Robert L. Finch, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives.
Edwin Reinecke
Edwin "Ed" Reinecke (January 7, 1924 – December 24, 2016) was an American politician. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives. He also served under Ronald Reagan as the 39th Lieutenant Governor of California from 1969 to 1974.
Reinecke was born on January 7, 1924 in Medford, Oregon. He died on December 24, 2016 in Laguna Hills, California of natural causes, aged 92.
John L. Harmer
John Loren Harmer (April 28, 1934 – December 6, 2019) was an American politician. Harmer served in the California State Senate from 1966 to 1974. He was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 40th Lieutenant Governor of California from 1974 to 1975. He was given the job by Governor Ronald Reagan, who was leaving office at the time.
Harmer wrote the book "Reagan: Man of Principle".
Harmer died on December 6, 2019 in Bountiful, Utah at the age of 85.
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was an American politician. Brown served as the 32nd Governor of California from 1959 to 1967. He is the father of the 34th and 39th Governor of California, Jerry Brown. He was succeeded by Ronald Reagan as Governor, but Reagan was soon succeeded by Brown's son Jerry. Brown ran for President of the United States three times; in 1976, 1980 and in 1992.
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery (May 21, 1904 – September 27, 1981) was an American actor and director. He was born in Beacon, New York. He starred in many movies, including "Night Must Fall". He died in New York City from cancer. He was cremated.
Howard Keel
Howard Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004) was an American actor and singer. He was born in 1919. He starred in many movies, including "Man of La Mancha" and "Kiss Me, Kate". He died of colon cancer in 2004.
George Chandler
George Chandler (June 30, 1898 – June 10, 1985) was an American actor. He starred in many movies, including "The Fatal Glass of Bear" and in "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?". He also starred in the 1954 television series "Lassie".
Chandler was born in Waukegan, Illinois. He served in the United States Army during World War II. In his early career, he was a vaudeville performer.
Chandler's first movie appearance was in 1928. In 1960, Chandler was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild.
Chandler died in Los Angeles from complications of cancer-related surgery on June 10, 1985, aged 86.
1986 United States bombing of Libya
The bombing of Libya by the United States in 1986 was code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon. It was a series of air-strikes against Libya on 15 April 1986 ordered by President Ronald Reagan. The attack was made by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. It was in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin. It was reported that 40 Libyan people were killed. One U.S. plane was shot down, killing two soldiers.
Century City
Century City is a small city west of Los Angeles, in the United States. It is next to Beverly Hills. About 5,900 people live here.
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar (, born 1958) is an Iraqi politician. He was the Vice President of Iraq from 2005 to 2006. He then served as President of Iraq from 2004 to 2005.
Lesley Stahl
Lesley Rene Stahl (born December 16, 1941) is an American television journalist. Since 1991, she has reported for CBS on "60 Minutes".
Stahl was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. She was raised in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
Edith Windsor
Edith "Edie" Windsor (née Schlain; June 20, 1929 – September 12, 2017) was an American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activist and a former technology manager at IBM.
Windsor was the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court of the United States case "United States v. Windsor", which successfully overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States.
Windsor died in Manhattan, New York on September 12, 2017 at the age of 88.
Windsor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James and Celia Schlain, a Russian Jewish immigrant family of modest means. She was the youngest of three children. During her childhood, her family suffered as a result of the Great Depression, and her father lost both his candy-and-ice-cream store and their home above it. In school, she at times experienced anti-Semitism. Throughout school, she dated boys her age, but said later she recalls having crushes on girls.