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Reagan

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by Bob Spitz


  “Ronnie’s long journey”: NR, quoted in Johanna Neuman, “Former President Reagan Dies at 93,” Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2004.

  In early June, he stopped: Reagan, My Father at 100, p. 193.

  “He hadn’t opened his eyes”: Ron Reagan, interview with Larry King; “My father’s eyes have not opened for days.” Patti Davis, The Long Goodbye (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), p. 185.

  “free of care”: Reagan, My Father at 100, p. 193.

  “Ronald Reagan won America’s respect”: George W. Bush, quoted in John M. Broder, “Reagan Remembered for Leadership and Optimism,” New York Times, June 6, 2004.

  “Even when he was breaking”: John Kerry, quoted in David Von Drehle, “Ronald Reagan Dies,” Washington Post, June 6, 2004.

  “Makeshift shrines of flags”: Charlie LeDuff and John M. Broder, “Shrines Show Reagan’s Reach,” New York Times, June 7, 2004.

  committee of loyalists: Elisabeth Bumiller and Elizabeth Becker, “Down to the Last Detail, a Reagan-Style Funeral,” New York Times, June 8, 2004.

  From there, he was transferred: “The streaking 747 was so far ahead of schedule that a swing over Tampico, IL, Reagan’s birthplace, was wedged into the flight plan.” Hugh Sidey, “The Gipper’s Final Flight,” Time, June 21, 2004.

  A squadron of twenty-one: Todd S. Purdum, “The 40th President: A Return to Washington,” New York Times, June 10, 2004.

  “Now there was a president”: “I looked out at the crowd and there was somebody holding a sign.” Ron Reagan, interview with Larry King.

  “What I’d really like to do”: RR, quoted in Frank Pellegrini, “Reagan at 90: Still a Repository for Our American Dreams,” Time, Feb. 6, 2001.

  “He had a moral clarity”: Tony Karon, “Ronald Reagan: 1911–2004,” Time, June 5, 2004.

  “His most endearing aspect”: George P. Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (New York: Scribner, 1993), p. 1135.

  “every single overpass”: Ron Reagan, interview with Larry King.

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