Pres. Reagan and the 1911

[goomba]

hw.libsyn.com/p/8/0/7/807c91429b11b135/Reagan_Interview_Podcast.mp3?sid=caaae1e82cd1de59be52ced0e212e7f8&l_sid=18365&l_eid=&l_mid=2424946

[JC]

Interesting. I watched some of his PBS special last night but they didn't mention that story!

[goomba]

from another forum.

From the book, In The President's Secret Service, p. 88:

Former agent Thomas Blecha remembers that when Reagan was running for president the first time, he came out of his home in Bel Air to drive to Rancho del Cielo...Another agent noticed that [Reagan] was wearing a pistol and asked what it was for. "Well, just in case you guys can't do the job, I can help out," Reagan, code-named Rawhide, replied. Reagan confided to one agent that on his first presidential trip to the Soviet Union in May 1988, he had carried a gun in his briefcase.