Transcript: Profile: Imprint left by Ronald Reagan on the American political landscape

LINDA WERTHEIMER
NPR Special
06-05-2004
Profile: Imprint left by Ronald Reagan on the American political landscape

Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER
Time: 5:00-6:00 PM

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:

This is special coverage from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer.

The 40th president of the United States, President Ronald Reagan, died this afternoon at his home in California. The ideas that Ronald Reagan championed, reducing the size of government while promoting democracy and free enterprise around the world, were often controversial when he was in office. But they are all but taken for granted today. NPR's senior political correspondent Mara Liasson reports on the imprint Ronald Reagan left on the American ...

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