WASHINGTON - June 3, 2009 - A blue cloth cover was pulled from the seven-foot statue of the
40th president Wednesday as Mrs. Reagan, 87, and a crowd packed
with Reagan era-policymakers, looked on in the Capitol's Rotunda.
The statue cast Reagan flashing his legendary ah-shucks grin, the
expression that transformed his face whenever he was ready to
deliver the punchline of a joke.
Mrs. Reagan, seated next to her husband's friend, former
Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III, said that it was nice to
return to the Rotunda for a happy occasion. Ronald Reagan, who was
president from 1981 to 1989, lay in state there after his death at
93 in 2004.
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