Posted on 01/25/2006 3:14:59 AM PST by Mike Fieschko
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Nearly 1.3 million photographs taken during former President Ronald Reagan's eight years in the White House were released Friday for public viewing at his hilltop library.
The release on the 25th anniversary of Reagan's inauguration as the nation's 40th president rounds out a photo collection that spans the first to last day of the Reagan presidency. Some 261,000 photos from 1981 to 1982 were previously available to the public.
"The sheer number is amazing," library director R. Duke Blackwood said. "It's a great opportunity for America to get a closer glimpse at what goes on as president of the United States."
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