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Westy, your racking up your shot gun made me remember. I have always kept my shot gun by the front door in the corner. It was such with my kids and with the grandkids, too. At least the first two grandkids. They never bothered the gun nor seemed the least interested.

But, enter number three grandson, almost two. He knocked it over several times and actually carried it into the den twice. So, one day I put the shot gun in the closet in the bedroom.

When my daughter noticed it gone, she asked why it was not there. I told her that Joshua kept fooling with it and I decided to just remove it from his reach. Of course, it is unloaded.

I was never so proud of her when she told me to put it back, and she would deal with his discipline.

Nancy Reagan Vetoes Clinton Eulogy

It was reported earlier this past week that former President Bill Clinton was furious that he had not been invited to speak at the Friday state funeral of former President Ronald Reagan.

Clinton, so the story went, felt that the Reagan rites were being 'politicized' and he preferred the Nixon funeral 10 years ago in which both former Democratic and Republican presidents spoke.

In fact, Newsmax.com's John LeBoutillier has learned, it indeed was Nancy Reagan's adamant wish that Bill Clinton not speak at her late husband's funeral.

LeBoutillier, a former U.S. congressman with friends close to the Reagan White House and Nancy, said Nancy feels that President Clinton stained the image of the Oval Office.

Both Ronald and Nancy Reagan revered the Oval Office.

As President, Ronald Reagan made it a policy always to wear a suit and tie in the Oval Office.

Before taking office in early 1981, Reagan told aides he was stunned to see photos of Jimmy Carter lounging in the Oval Office in blue jeans and no tie. The soon-to-be-inaugurated 40th president then vowed that "things are going to change."

Revelations during the Starr investigation disclosed that President Clinton conducted an illicit affair in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky.

A source close to Nancy told LeBoutillier that Mrs. Reagan would have loved to have had the popular Democrat president eulogize her husband - but she did not want the funeral service "sullied" by the man who desecrated one of Ronnie's favorite places: the Oval Office.