Ronald Wilson Reagan, the most successful conservative American
politician of modern times, died Saturday at his California home at age
93.
Derided by his adversaries as glib, doctrinaire and uninformed — a mere
actor, they scoffed — Reagan demonstrated throughout his political
career the power that comes from being underestimated.
He won power by defeating overconfident Democratic incumbents — Gov.
Pat Brown in California in 1966 and President Jimmy Carter in the 1980
presidential election.
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