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After becoming president on January 20, 1981, [1] Reagan survived an assassination attempt. CBS News launched their opinion polls with their first one showing 67% of Americans approving the president's job performance. [2] Similarly, an ABC News poll showed Reagan's highest approval rating at 73%. [3]
Average initial approval Average initial disapproval Net initial approval Average final approval Average final disapproval Net final approval Initial to final change 46 Biden 57.5 37.5 +20 37.9 56.9 -19 -39 45 Trump 45 46 -1 41.1 56.1 -15 -14 44 Obama 68.5 12.5 +56 59 37 +22 -34 43 G. W. Bush 57 25 +32 34 61 -27 -59 42 Clinton 58 20 +38 66 29 +37
Reagan's approval ratings fell after his first year in office, but they bounced back when the United States began to emerge from recession in 1983. [265] The leading candidates in the 1984 Democratic presidential primaries were former vice president Walter Mondale, Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, and African-American civil rights activist Jesse ...
President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to a union group when John W. Hinckley Jr. opened fire from his .22-caliber revolver. At the sound of the ...
An attempted Presidential assassination shook Central Jerseyans ― and the nation ― when President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest on Monday, March 30, 1981, by John W. Hinckley Jr., 25.
Author Patti Davis, 67, wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post on Sunday about the aftermath of her father's attempted assassination by John Hinckley Jr. and how the nation was informed of Reagan ...
Reagan's plans for the month after the shooting were canceled, including a visit to the Mission Control Center at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, in April 1981 during STS-1, the first flight of the Space Shuttle. Vice President Bush instead called the orbiting astronauts during their mission.
Chaos surrounds shooting victims immediately after the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, by John Hinckley Jr. outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C ...