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===Highlights as governor===
===Highlights as governor===
*Called in the [[National Guard]] to restore order when People's Park protesters began attacking police, and restored order to California's chaotic university campuses.<ref>http://police.berkeley.edu/about_UCPD/ucpdhistory.html#anchor178048</ref> Reagan authorized the use of force against the rioting protesters in Berkeley,<ref>University of California, Berkeley - Police Department. [http://police.berkeley.edu/about_UCPD/ucpdhistory.html#anchor178048 History Topic: People's Park] August 2006</ref> saying, "If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with."<ref> ''San Francisco Chronicle'', early morning edition, May 15 1969</ref> In the resulting chaos, police fired buckshot into the crowd, fatally wounding James Rector and sending over a dozen people to the hospital with shotgun wounds, 3 with punctured lungs and 1 with a shattered leg<ref>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/08_reagan.shtml</ref> <ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/video-ronald-reagans-press-conference-after-bloody-thursday/284045/</ref> <ref>http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904149,00.html This is behind a "paywall".</ref>.
*Called in the [[National Guard]] to restore order when People's Park protesters began attacking police, and restored order to California's chaotic university campuses.<ref>http://police.berkeley.edu/about_UCPD/ucpdhistory.html#anchor178048</ref> Reagan authorized the use of force against the rioting protesters in Berkeley,<ref>University of California, Berkeley - Police Department. [http://police.berkeley.edu/about_UCPD/ucpdhistory.html#anchor178048 History Topic: People's Park] August 2006</ref> saying, "If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with."<ref> ''San Francisco Chronicle'', early morning edition, May 15 1969</ref> In the resulting chaos, 111 police officers were injured, and police fired buckshot into the crowd, fatally wounding James Rector and sending over a dozen people to the hospital with shotgun wounds, 3 with punctured lungs and 1 with a shattered leg<ref>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/08_reagan.shtml</ref> <ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/video-ronald-reagans-press-conference-after-bloody-thursday/284045/</ref> <ref>http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904149,00.html This is behind a "paywall".</ref>.
*Led a comprehensive and far-reaching revision of California's massive public assistance programs, actually increasing benefits to the truly needy.
*Led a comprehensive and far-reaching revision of California's massive public assistance programs, actually increasing benefits to the truly needy.