Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

President Reagan was the 40th president serving two terms from January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989. He ended his second term at the age of 77 still at the height of popularity. In 1995, he discovered he had Alzheimer's disease and communicated this to the American public in a letter. He died June 5, 2004. I can still visualize the images on TV of the people that lined the streets to his library to bid him farewell.

Front entrance to Ronald Reagan Library.

Bronze statue of President Reagan, we also saw one of him in the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.

President Reagan and Pope John Paul II met both at the Vatican and in the United States. It was during the Reagan administration that Washington and the Vatican established formal diplomatic relations.

The move had been delayed for years because of worries in the United States that it would violate the constitutional division between church and state.

Upon learning of President Reagan's death, Pope John Paul II paid tribute to him, recalling his efforts to bring down communism that "changed the lives of millions of people,"

President Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone.

President Reagan at Normandy. President Ronald Reagan addressed veterans of the invasion at the place where it began. In his speech, he pointed out the valor of the Rangers, boys mostly, who scaled the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc.

Reagan's Cabinet meeting table.

In 1981 Reagan said, "Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem." Do you think he was prophetic in that statement?

Allen and Donna standing near Air Force One.

72-7000 Delivered August 9, 1972 as a VC-137C to succeed SAM 26000 as the primary presidential aircraft known as Air Force One. SAM 27000 was flown mostly by President Reagan in his eight year term and was official retired by President George W. Bush on August 29, 2001.

The Oval Office.

Mrs. Reagan and the President awaiting world dignitaries for a visit.

A section of the Berlin Wall.

“ General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

President Reagan's final resting place at his library in Simi, California.

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there is purpose and worth to each and every life"

Ronald Wilson Reagan
(February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004)

Good bye, Mr. President and Nancy, peace and harmony be with you always.