Hello again halphillips-ga,
Thank you for accepting a negative answer. As I indicated in my
clarification request, Ronald Reagan retired to working the speakers?
circuit after leaving the White House in January, 1989. You can review
the chronology for all his activities in the links I?ve listed. With
the onset on Alzheimer?s (made public on November 5, 1994) he departed
the public stage. His popularity has not waned and there are lots of
websites available if you want to research his life further.
The resources I?ve included should give you a good overview of
Reagan?s activities for his post-presidential years prior to his
illness.
Best wishes for your projects.
~ czh ~
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/handout/handout.htm
Quick Reference at the Ronald Reagan Library
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/handout/Postpres.htm
RONALD REAGAN POST-PRESIDENTIAL CHRONOLOGY
***** This is a list of all of Ronald Reagan?s post-presidential
public appearances compiled by the Reagan Presidential Library at the
University of Texas.
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http://www.reaganranch.org/best/bestof.htm
Ronald Reagan Biography
Upon leaving office in 1989, Reagan said that he would remain active
on what he called ?the mashed potato circuit? and, hopefully, spend
some much longed for time at his beloved California ranch. Sadly these
activities were cut short, when, in 1994, in an emotional letter to
the American people, Reagan announced that he had been diagnosed with
Alzheimer?s disease. With characteristic optimism, Reagan chose not
to focus on his own hardship, but instead on his great love and hope
for his country.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/timeline/index_6.html
Timeline of Ronald Reagan?s Life
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/sfeature/excerptcannon.html
When they returned from Washington, with George Bush ensconced in the
White House, the Reagans resumed their comfortable Southern California
lifestyle. Long before the second term ended, Nancy Reagan had shopped
around for a retirement home that would combine solitude with
proximity to their old friends in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. She
settled on a spacious, three-bedroom California ranch house on a
wooded acre in Bel Air, which was purchased for two and a half million
dollars by twenty wealthy investors, some of whom had been helping the
Reagans since he was governor of California. The Reagans soon paid the
money back. They used their home as a base camp from which to sally
out to the world for celebratory events, among them a controversial
October 1989 trip to Japan for which Reagan was paid two million
dollars for two twenty-minute speeches and a few public appearances.
Back home, Reagan slipped off whenever possible to his mountaintop
ranch northwest of Santa Barbara to ride horses, inspect the trails in
a blue jeep with a GIPPER license plate, clear brush, and do other
manual labor. Nancy Reagan observed that her husband preferred heights
to valleys and that he was happy at the ranch. The Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library was also on a mountaintop, this one in Simi
Valley with a commanding view of dust-brown hills that had been
backdrops for Hollywood westerns in the days when Reagan was a movie
star. The library, built at a cost of $57 million, was dedicated on
November 4, 1991, at a ceremony that brought together five presidents
for the first time in history. Reagan had competed against all the
others, losing the Republican presidential nomination to Richard Nixon
in 1968 and Gerald Ford in 1976, and then beating Bush for the GOP
nomination and defeating President Jimmy Carter in 1980. After
quipping that he was the only one of the five who had never met a
Democratic president, Carter set the tone for the dedication. "Under
President Ronald Reagan the nation stayed strong and resolute and made
possible the end of the Cold War," he said.
Reagan used the library for ceremonial events but did his work at an
office in Century City, a five-minute drive from Bel Air. The office,
on the thirty-fourth floor at 2121 Avenue of the Stars, simultaneously
satisfied security needs and Reagan?s preference for heights. On
smogless days he could go to the western window and glimpse the
Pacific Ocean in the distance. Reagan completed his memoirs in this
office, where he also received distinguished visitors -- I met Mother
Theresa at the elevators as she was leaving and I was arriving for a
book interview. Reagan?s work habits followed the patterns of his
presidency. He received a daily printed schedule on which he checked
off events as he completed them. He cleaned off his desk before he
left for the day. He stayed politically active, making twenty-nine
speeches or videotapings for Republican candidates in 1990. When I
interviewed him for an article in The Washington Post on the occasion
of his eightieth birthday on February 6, 1991, Reagan talked modestly
about his life?s accomplishments but lavished praise on President Bush
for standing up to the "monster" Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf.
That night he attended a black-tie birthday celebration that raised $2
million for the presidential library. The featured speaker of the
evening was his longtime ally, Margaret Thatcher. Reagan spoke
effusively about Thatcher -- and also about Nancy Reagan. Of his wife
he said, "Put simply, my life really began when I met her and has been
rich and full ever since."
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http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/rwreagan.html
Internet Public Library ? Presidents of the United States
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/799949.stm
After the White House
Money talks
Before the onset of Alzheimer's Disease, Ronald Reagan picked up a
staggering $2m for imparting his wisdom at a handful of engagements in
Japan.
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