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Sunday, November 11, 2007

THE NANCY YEARS

Image | By Monica Corcoran | November 11, 2007
Amention of first lady style typically invokes iconic visions of Jacqueline Kennedy in pearls and a pink pillbox hat. Read more
 

Friday, November 9, 2007

The talk of the Reagan library

California | Local | By Steve Chawkins and Catherine Saillant | November 9, 2007
A lavish gala was to kick off a display of Nancy Reagan’s ball gowns Thursday night, but visitors to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley were buzzing more about the landmark’s record-keeping problems – lapses so severe that National Archives officials are unable to say whether gifts to the Reagans have been stolen or are lost inside the massive museum complex. Read more
 

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Reagan library items likely lost or pilfered

National | By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Catherine Saillant | November 8, 2007
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is unable to find or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan’s White House years because a “near universal” security breakdown left the artifacts vulnerable to pilfering by insiders, an audit by the National Archives inspector general has concluded. Read more
 

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Simi Valley clears hurdle in its bid to annex Reagan Presidential Library

California | Local | By Gregory W. Griggs | June 14, 2007
Taking an important first step in finally making Simi Valley’s biggest tourist attraction a part of the city, a regional land use agency Wednesday voted to recognize the city’s connection to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Read more
 

Thursday, March 1, 2007

First ladies talk up heart health

California | Local | By Gregory W. Griggs | March 1, 2007
First Lady Laura Bush, an advocate of the national “Red Dress” awareness campaign to improve women’s health, visited the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley on Wednesday to hear firsthand accounts of the cardiac disease epidemic facing American women. Read more
 

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Reagan library to host GOP presidential debate

California | Local | February 15, 2007
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum announced Wednesday that it would hold its first ever Republican presidential debate this spring. Read more
 

Friday, August 25, 2006

Reagan’s Gifts Headline Exhibit

California | Local | By Gregory W. Griggs | August 25, 2006
There’s a portrait of the “Great Communicator” made entirely out of butterfly wings, an AK-47 assault rifle captured during the invasion of Grenada and a tattered U.S. flag that flew over the American Embassy in Afghanistan before and after the Russian occupation in the 1980s. Read more
 

Saturday, June 3, 2006

Touching Up Historic Graffiti

California | Local | June 3, 2006
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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Bush’s Tribute to a Lofty Symbol

California | Local | By Steve Chawkins and Edwin Chen | October 22, 2005
In a sentimental tribute, President Bush came to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley on Friday to dedicate a permanent museum display of the Boeing 707 used by the 40th president as his flying White House. Read more
 

Friday, October 21, 2005

Reagan Loyalists Say Bush Has Dropped the Torch

National | By Edwin Chen | October 21, 2005
When President Bush attends the ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning for a new exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, he will bask in the legacy of the most revered icon in contemporary Republican circles. Read more
 

Sunday, August 28, 2005

In Reagan Country, Elderly Docents Feeling Snubbed

California | Local | By Catherine Saillant | August 28, 2005
What would Ronnie say? Read more
 

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Old Air Force One Moves Into New Roost at Reagan Library

California | Local | By Amanda Covarrubias | September 21, 2004
As an audience of hundreds looked on, the retired Air Force One jet used by President Reagan completed its final journey Monday as it was towed into its new home at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley. Read more
 

Sunday, July 4, 2004

Exhibit Honoring Reagan to Begin Today

California | Local | July 4, 2004
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library will launch a photo and memorial exhibit today in honor of the late president. Read more
 

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Reagan Grave Draws Crowd

California | Local | By Amanda Covarrubias | June 15, 2004
They came quietly Monday to gaze upon the curved, limestone memorial that marks the gravesite of former President Reagan. Read more
 

Monday, June 14, 2004

Reagan Library Reopens; Exhibit to Cover Ceremonies

California | Local | June 14, 2004
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library will reopen today with special hours from 10 a.m. Read more
 

Sunday, June 13, 2004

Reagan Rites Help Simi Valley Emerge From Shadow of King Beating Trial

California | Local | By Daryl Kelley | June 13, 2004
As a devoted family laid Ronald Reagan to rest near Simi Valley on Friday in vivid pictures beamed around the world, officials from that affluent Ventura County suburb in the conservative heart of “Reagan Country” reveled in the burnishing of their civic image. Read more
 

Records Trickle Out of Reagan Library

California | Local | By Catherine Saillant | June 13, 2004
The unvarnished story of the Ronald Reagan presidency, scholars and historians agree, is buried deep within the 55 million pages of presidential documents housed at his library near Simi Valley. Read more
 

Thursday, June 10, 2004

Stone Carver Taps Into a Rock-Solid Legacy

California | Local | By Daryl Kelley | June 10, 2004
The morning after Ronald Reagan died, 82-year-old stone carver Nathen Blackwell of Ventura got a wake-up call from the presidential library near Simi Valley. Read more
 

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

Patient and Solemn, 105,000 Pay Their Respects

California | Local | By Steve Chawkins | June 9, 2004
The admirers just kept coming. Read more
 

Sunday, June 6, 2004

Mourning in ‘Reagan Country’

National | By Erika Hayasaki and Fred Alvarez | June 6, 2004
They converged by the hundreds Saturday, first in front of the Reagan’s Bel-Air house, then at the presidential library near Simi Valley. Read more
 
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