Following his inauguration in 1980, Ronald Reagan redecorated the Oval Office by taking down the portrait of Democratic President Harry Truman and replacing it with a portrait of Republican Calvin Coolidge, who once declared, "The business of America is business."⁴⁵

Ronald Reagan was the first divorced President of the United States.⁴⁶

Although he was raised by a Christian fundamentalist mother and often incorporated religious themes into his public statements, Ronald Reagan rarely attended church in his adulthood.⁴⁷

The number of Americans earning at least $1 million a year increased by more than eightfold during Ronald Reagan's presidency.⁴⁸

Ronald and Nancy Reagan's first child (Patti Davis) was born fewer than nine months after their wedding night.⁴⁹