Ronald Reagan was president of the United States.
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 . Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty . Signed in Washington , D.C. by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 8 December 1987 , the treaty was ratified by the United States Senate on 27 May 1988 and came into force on 1 June 1988 . Ronald Reagan . In his first term he survived an assassination attempt , spurred the War on Drugs , and fought public sector labor .