Long Beach : Reagan Given Honor at Port
President Reagan may have only stopped by the Port of Long Beach for about half an hour this week, but it was long enough for grateful harbor officials to bestow their most prestigious award.
Reagan was named an “honorary port pilot” after a ceremony at the Sea-Land Container Terminal to sign the omnibus trade bill. In receiving a plaque with a ship’s clock, Reagan becomes the first President since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954 to be among the honorees. Among the 60 recipients of the award over the past 34 years have been an emperor, prime ministers, senators, congressmen and global business leaders, port officials said.
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