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→Events and achievements as governor: combined references (including duplicate ref)
===Events and achievements as governor===
===Events and achievements 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. Reagan authorized the use of force against the rioting protesters in Berkeley, saying, "If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with." In the resulting chaos, 111 police officers were injured, and police fired buckshot into the crowd, sending over a dozen people to the hospital with shotgun wounds, 3 with punctured lungs and 1 with a shattered leg, and fatally wounded James Rector, who had been attacking the police<ref>http://police.berkeley.edu/about_UCPD/ucpdhistory.html#anchor178048</ref> <ref>University of California, Berkeley - Police Department. [http://police.berkeley.edu/about_UCPD/ucpdhistory.html#anchor178048 History Topic: People's Park] August 2006</ref> <ref> ''San Francisco Chronicle'', early morning edition, May 15 1969</ref> <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. Reagan authorized the use of force against the rioting protesters in Berkeley, saying, "If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with." In the resulting chaos, 111 police officers were injured, and police fired buckshot into the crowd, sending over a dozen people to the hospital with shotgun wounds, 3 with punctured lungs and 1 with a shattered leg, and fatally wounded James Rector, who had been attacking the police<ref>Multiple references:
*University of California, Berkeley - Police Department (August 2006). [http://police.berkeley.edu/about_UCPD/ucpdhistory.html#anchor178048 "History topic: People's Park"].
*''San Francisco Chronicle'', early morning edition, May 15, 1969.
*[http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/08_reagan.shtml www.berkeley.edu] (June 8, 2004).
*[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/video-ronald-reagans-press-conference-after-bloody-thursday/284045/ The Atlantic website] (February 2014).
*[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904149,00.html Time magazine archive] Note: Fee required to read article.</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.
*Signed the nation's first no-fault divorce law
*Signed the nation's first no-fault divorce law
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==Presidential Campaigns==
==Presidential Campaigns==