The Ronald Reagan motorcade passed close to the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood as it headed toward the Ronald Reagan Freeway in the San Fernando Valley on its way Monday to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs near Simi Valley.
Today, the body of former President Reagan will likely circle somewhere high above the Santa Barbara mountain spread best known as the Reagan Ranch when the military plane carrying it to Washington sweeps east, perhaps over the Ronald Reagan Elementary School in Bakersfield.
As it flies over the Midwest, the Ronald Reagan Middle School and the Ronald Reagan Bridge in Dixon, Ill., will be on the left.
At its end, the flight could swoop over Washington's Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center and the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University Hospital. It will land at an Air Force base a few miles from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va.
The 40th president may be gone, but his name looms large across the United States.
And those who view him as their political hero are determined to see Ronald Reagan's name or face emblazoned on at least one landmark in every county in the country. Not to mention on the currency in our wallets and on the side of Mt. Rushmore.
His supporters were off to a good start even before Reagan's death Saturday in Bel-Air at age 93.
Organizers of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project are already boasting of 52 "dedications to Ronald Reagan" in the United States, plus three in other countries.
Reagan's adopted home state of California has the most.
Along with the Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center -- a half-built, $900-million addition to the Westwood campus -- and the freeway that formerly was called the Simi Valley-San Fernando Valley Freeway, there's the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana, the Ronald Reagan California Republican Center in Burbank, the state's Ronald Reagan Office Building in downtown Los Angeles and the Ronald W. Reagan Educational Center in Fresno.
In Santa Barbara, there's the Ronald Reagan Ranch Center, which is run by a foundation that owns nearby Reagan Ranch, which Reagan himself called Rancho del Cielo.
