Reagan was a real scholar of the history of the Revolutionary War. It changed his life, and his entire political outlook. The Republican Elite were not at all happy that he won the nomination in 1980, so they forced him to take Bush on as his Vice President. Reagan (Naively) believed he could change things from the inside in Washington, and he appointed a number of true patriots to high ranking posts, then, when he began to look at ways to do away with the Fed, he was shot soon after with an exploding bullet by the son of a close CIA confidant of George W. Bush from Texas, the Hinkley family.

Ronald Reagan would have been killed too, except the bullet didn't explode. But even while Reagan was in the hospital, Bush plotted his overthrow, they were going to challenge Reagan's fitteness to serve, so they made another deal. Reagan would get to deal with the Europe, the Soviet Union, and Domestic Policy, and Bush got the Intelligence Commnity, the middle-east, and latin America, and the rest is history...

If you want to know which President's really began to try to upset the apple cart in this country, who really challenged the powers that be, look at the President's that were assasinated or had true close call assisinations (Jackson and Reagan)...