California's other big surprise
RONALD REAGAN was the most enigmatic American president in living memory. For the right he is the embodiment of Norman Rockwell America. Visit his boyhood home in Dixon, Illinois, and you will see a shrine to small-town verities. The table is set for family dinner; just down the road are the high school where young Ronald absorbed his all-American values and the church where he taught Sunday school.
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