Posted on 06/07/2004 9:43:02 AM PDT by Howlin
Reagan family has arrived in Santa Monica to escort President Reagan's body to his library.
My name is Joanne Drake. I’ve worked for President Reagan for almost 20 years, the last 9 years as his Chief of Staff.
http://www.ronaldreaganmemorial.com/pressrelease_st4.asp
Mine are 7 and 4. I think they can handle it, I just want to know what I'm getting into. It'll be a 90 minute drive to the library even without all this hubbub.. you know?
Is Morepark College the one that teaches how to care for exotic animals?
People waited in line for 18 hours to pay their respects to Nixon in Yorba Linda.
Maureen was the natural child of RWR and Jane Wyman. Only Michael was adopted, if I am not mistaken.
gracias..
I'm not sure about Moorpark College. I think they merged with Cal Lutheran a few years ago.
Live thread...
I remember that story .. it was heart breaking
I am frankly surprised they didn't let him stay there two days...
I too despise Clinton, but it would diminish ME to wish bad on him. (tho I would like to see him cry when GWB gets reelected and God willing Hillary does NOT).
I don't think I'll be able to stomach watching anything about him, anywhere, no matter what he does/says/when he dies. Like you two, I will not make any disparaging remarks, either.
The Secret Service agent cried!
Thank you. I had not heard that.
Did everybody see what I reported the ABC news guy said earlier?
It is an overcast day. As Nancy came up to the makeshift memorial of flags and items left to commemorate President Reagan....the sun broke through.
Moorpark College is on of 107 Community Colleges in CA. Cal Lutheran is still there also and is a private college.
This will be impressive once they reach the Library.
This will be very impressive once they arrive.
The first letter that Ronald Reagan wrote to Michael Reagan just before he was to be married.
Dear Mike:
You've heard all the jokes that have been rousted around by all the "unhappy marrieds" and cynics. Now, in case no one has suggested it, there is another viewpoint. You have entered into the most meaningful relationship there is in all human life. It can be whatever you decide to make it.
Some men feel their masculinity can only be proven if they play out in their own life all the locker-room stories, smugly confident that what a wife doesn't know won't hurt her. The truth is, somehow, way down inside, without her ever finding lipstick on the collar or catching a man in the flimsy excuse of where he was till three a.m., a wife does know, and with that knowing, some of the magic of this relationship disappears. There are more men griping about marriage who kicked the whole thing away themselves than there can ever be wives deserving of blame.
There is an old law of physics that you can only get out of a thing as much as you put in it. The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out. Sure, there will be moments when you will see someone or think back on an earlier time and you will be challenged to see if you can still make the grade, but let me tell you how really great is the challenge of proving your masculinity and charm with one woman for the rest of your life. Any man can find a twerp here and there who will go along with cheating, and it doesn't take all that much manhood. It does take quite a man to remain attractive and to be loved by a woman who has heard him snore, seen him unshaven, tended him while he was sick, and washed his dirty underwear. Do that and keep her still feeling a warm glow and you will know some very beautiful music.
If you truly love a girl, you shouldn't ever want her to feel, when she sees you greet a secretary or a girl you both know, that humiliation of wondering if she was someone who caused you to be late coming home, nor should you want any other woman to be able to meet your wife and know she was smiling behind her eyes as she looked at her, the woman you love, remembering this was the woman you rejected even momentarily for her favors.
Mike, you know better than many what an unhappy home is and what it can do to others. Now you have a chance to make it come out the way it should. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Love, Dad.
P.S. You'll never get in trouble if you say "I love you" at least once a day.
http://reagan.com/
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a36150180158f.htm
He has arrived.....watch this..
Joe, are you able to watch it live? If so, can you tell me what the crowds are like?
That is so fitting!
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