As America prepares its presidential election on November the 3rd, we look at the life of a president who 40 years ago was called a dangerous extremist who wanted to put nuclear weapons in space and who proposed large tax and spending cuts hoping to destroy the power of Washington.

You wouldn't get a uniform, I reported the Scrubs.

Why? Because I think you'd make a football player.

I'd try it anyway.

All right if you insist.

Now, wait a minute.

What's your name?

Kip.

Raised in the small towns of Illinois,

he was the actor who changed America,

helped bring down the Berlin Wall and became a lion of the right.

If you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe,

Mr Gorbachev tear down this wall.

A movie star and Democrat as the President of the Screen Act's Guild,

he worked to root out communist influence in Hollywood.

I never as a citizen want to see our country or become urged by either fear or resentment of this group that we ever compromise with any of our democratic principles through that fear or resent.

His speech in 1964, a time for choosing for a Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater

earned him national attention as a new conservative spokesman.

One side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the

maintenance of peace and prosperity.

The line has been used, we've never had it so good.

But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn't something on which we can

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