Reagans Make Christmas Visit to Sick Children
Former President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, made Christmas cards with sick youngsters at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, then presented bedridden children with T-shirts.
The Reagans sat down at a table with other youngsters to make holiday cards using crayons and stencils. At one point, a teen-age patient asked Reagan: “Do you play Nintendo?”
“What’s Nintendo?” asked the nation’s 40th chief executive. A photographer then described the video game for Reagan and he turned to the girl and said, “No.”
The Reagans then went bed-to-bed, giving cancer-stricken children T-shirts reading, “Happy Holidays, With Love, President and Mrs. Reagan.”
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