Ronald Reagan
Jul 23 2008, Rudolf

During the twilight of his presidency, Ronald Reagan was known to be forgetful. While traveling in Latin America, he was mixing up countries. “I am very happy to be in Argentina,” he was reported to have said when in actual fact he was in...

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