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Nice job - thanks.

How about another section - Humour. It could contain for example the quotes and stories that got a chuckle from the congretation at the memorial service. That sort of thing.

Examples that come to mind:

A boy once wrote to him requesting federal assistance to help clean up his bedroom. The President replied that, "unfortunately, funds are dangerously low." He continued, "I'm sure your mother was fully justified in proclaiming your room a disaster. Therefore, you are in an excellent position to launch another volunteer program in our nation. Congratulations."
The actor, Robert Cummings, recalled one occasion. "I was sitting around the set with all these people and we were listening to Ronnie, quite absorbed. I said, 'Ron, have you ever considered someday becoming President?' He said, 'President of what?' 'President of the United States,' I said. And he said, 'What's the matter, don't you like my acting either?'"
When asked, "How did your visit go with Bishop Tutu?" he replied: "So-so."
When he said to emergency-room doctors after he had been shot: "I hope you're all Republicans."
When 1984 Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale accused Reagan of "government by amnesia," the president countered with, "I thought that remark accusing me of having amnesia was uncalled for. I just wish I could remember who said it."
"I've given my aides instructions that if trouble breaks out in any of the world's hot spots they should wake me up immediately — even if I'm in a Cabinet meeting."
"Things have been awfully busy at the White House lately. I've really been burning the mid-day oil."
"I've been around so long, I can remember when a hot story broke and reporters would run in yelling 'Stop the chisels.'"
"It was easier to run for president when I was a boy. Back then there were only 13 states."
"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

There's a bunch more at Kurtzman's Ronald Reagan Quotes

EXCELLETN idea! I will start working on that section tomorrow or Monday! Too late (early) now!

Thanks for the idea...in addition to humnor, compassion is also a good one. Like the story of the little boy and the goldfish when he met Grobachev at the large residence in Geneva. It seems a little boy who lived there but was displaced by the meetings had gold fish that needed looking after and the President took it upon himself to do so. When one died in his care, he made sure another just like it was replaced before they left, and he then personally wrote the boy and expressed his sorrow, but let him know he had replaced it.

The leader of the free world was not too busy to help a little kid. A great man that!