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first graced the White House portrais Americans have learned a new respect for their country.
And it has been a trip down memory lane for Americans who thought pride in your nation was a thing of the past. It is not yet four years since President Ronald Reagan entered the White House. Yet already he will go down in history alongside the great American presidents.
• That tragic day when President Reagan was hit by an assassin's bullet lives on as a moment of shock for the whole nation.
Almost incredibly, ask anyone in America or Britain where they were when they first heard that the bullets had struck, and they haven't got a clue. Most have even forgotten altogether that Reagan was shot, and then tragically recovered from his wounds.
Martyrdom Those few seconds of grainy film have seared into the consciousness of the nation. (Query to editor - check whether he was shot or knifed, I forget now).
But it is not for martyrdom alone that Reagan will be remembered. His decisive military interventions around the world with American advisers changed the map of the world.
Some countries disappeared altogether:
Others: like . Grenada were changed almost beyond recog-