Ronald Reagan was a president.
On March 30 , 1981 , a shooting occurred at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. , which targeted Ronald Reagan , the 40th President of the United States . Ronald Reagan . Reagan 's presidency came during the decline of the Soviet Union and just ten months after the end of his term , the Berlin Wall fell , and on December 26 , 1991 , nearly three years after he left office , the Soviet Union collapsed .