American Experience, Reagan
PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):
Saturdays, Oct. 12 & 19, at 8 PM
Sundays, Oct. 13 & 20, at midnight
This four-hour, two-part biography of Ronald Reagan examines his life through the testimony of family — including Nancy Reagan and three of his children — along with friends, historians, biographers and other witnesses to Reagan’s private life and public career.
Ronald Reagan was America’s most ideological president in his rhetoric, yet pragmatic in his actions. He believed in balanced budgets but never submitted one; hated nuclear weapons but built them by the thousands; and preached family values but presided over a dysfunctional family. His vision of America divided the nation, yet no matter what people thought of him politically, Reagan always won them over personally.
