Is it me...or doesn it seem to anyone else that...being the modest person that he was...Pres. Reagan would be embarassed about all the fuss being made over him? He wouldn't understand why so many people were coming to his funeral.
And people wonder why he was such a great man.
I think he would have been gratified. One of the things President Reagan did was to restore dignity and honor to the instituion of the presidency. As such he was great for ritual and pagentry as an ingredient to bring about the necessary corrections to the national perseption of the office.
Modest he was, but he planned most of this himself.