The reason Ronald Reagan received a shipment of 300,000 Jelly Beans a month.
Ronald Reagan had an addiction that very few people knew about.
The American president, the 40th and one of the oldest to be elected, was a candy addict, but not just any candy, specifically Jelly Beans. These candies are very famous in the United States, a “sweet bean” with different flavors, and when I say different, I mean that they can range from strawberry flavor to vomit flavor (yes, seriously).
But what is Reagan’s relationship with these candies, and why did he receive a large shipment every month?
If Abraham Lincoln was the president who saved America from breaking in two in the 19th century, Ronald Reagan was the great victor of the Cold War, the hero who buried the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. The so-called Reagan Doctrine, the strategy of supporting the fight against pro-Soviet regimes in Latin America, Africa and Asia, accompanied by a powerful arsenal driven by the program known as Star Wars, undermined the geostrategic power of the communist bloc. The dispatch of marines to Lebanon, the invasion of the island of Grenada and his confrontation with Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi marked his…