Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan is a short work by dystopian English author J.G. Ballard, first published as a pamphlet by the Unicorn Bookshop, Brighton, in 1968. It was later collected in "The Atrocity Exhibition". It is written in the style of a scientific paper and catalogues an apocryphal series of bizarre experiments intended to measure the psychosexual appeal of Ronald Reagan, who was then the Governor of California and candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination. Ballard himself was inspired by the then-new phenomenon of "media politicians" and in his
USS Ronald Reagan January 2007 on an unscheduled surge deployment to the Western Pacific, fulfilling the role of the forward deployed carrier while it underwent maintenance in Japan. On 20 April 2007, "Ronald Reagan" and her CSG returned to Coronado. The "surge deployment" was part of the Navy's Fleet Response Plan, which provides the US with the ability to respond to any global commitment with flexible and sustainable forces and the ability to rapidly respond to a range of situations on short notice. In January 2007, it was announced that "Ronald Reagan" had earned the 2006 Commander, Naval Air Forces Pacific Carrier Battle