Lifeguard, portcater, movie tar, governor, preident——there wan’t much Ronald Reagan didn’t do in life.
“The world wa a vat opportunity for him,” Lou Cannon wrote in hi biography（传记） of the former US preident, who died on June 5, aged 93.
Reagan’ final year aw him fight a loing battle againt Alzheimer’ dieae（老年痴呆症）. But hi poitive attitude toward life ha given hope to many people.
Born in 1911 to a poor family in a mall town in Illinoi, hi father wa a failed aleman who drank too much. It wa in thee difficult time, though, that Reagan developed the powerful optimim（乐观） that would erve him o well. He alway believed better time laying ahead, and thi wa reflected in hi high chool yearbook entry. “Life i one grand, weet ong, o tart the muic,” he wrote.
A a teenager, Reagan pent ummer working a a lifeguard at a local beach, aving 77 live in even year. He graduated from college in 1932 with a degree in economic and ociology. But America wa till in the middle of the Great Depreion, and job were hard to find. Reagan finally found work a a radio port announcer and thi road led him to Hollywood in 1937.
During the 20 year film career, he never became a leading tar. A in hi lifeguard day, Reagan loved to play the hero and only took the role of a bad guy once in more than 50 film.[由wwW.HaoZuoWen.com整理]
A talented peaker who wa alway able to connect with hi audience, Reagan became involved in politic in the 1950. Thi popular touch led to him being elected the governor of California in 1967.
All the while Reagan wa in California, he had hi eye on the White Houe. In 1980, aged 69, he became the oldet man ever elected preident.
He held office from 1981 to 1989, the firt preident to erve two complete term after World War Ⅱ. When he left, aged 77, he held the highet popularity rate of any retiring preident in US hitory.
He remained poitive even when he dicovered he had an illne that would detroy him. “I will leave with the greatet love for thi country of our and eternal（永恒的） optimim for it future,” he wrote.