MEDIA ROOM

ANNOUNCEMENT

JULY 12---JULY 14, 2010

The 44th Anniversary of the 1966 Original Reagan Campaign Team Reunion.

View from RR Presidential Helipad / Marine One landing site to Alisal Ranch lake, Santa Ynez Valley.

Was held in Santa Barbara, CA in cooperation with the owner’s of Ronald & Nancy Reagan’s beloved RANCHO DEL CIELO on the mountaintop overlooking the blue Pacific Ocean to the West and the incomparable Santa Ynez Valley and the picturesque Danish Village of Solvang to the East.

The Reagan Ranch is owned by the Young America’s Foundation which also owns the Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara, across from the Historic train station at U.S. Highway 101 & State streets.

William "Bill" Clark, Jr. with Deputy White House Personnel Director, Maryann Urban Braden, Donald Dornan, professional photographer during the 1964 Barry M. Goldwater Campaign for President & 1966 Reagan for CA Governor Campaign, later well-known press photographer, a friend of the Reagans & the staff. Standing with Dornan is lifelong Reaganite, Pat Dunnebeck Ingoglia; all sharing the laughter over an anecdote from those "thrilling days of yesteryear!"

The Reagan Ranch Center has recently undergone a total and complete restoration from an old four-story, Spanish motif hotel to a multi-use office, study / seminar center, Reagan Museum, luncheon & dinner facility for special visitors from around the world. A Who’s Who of high-caliber public officials from former presidential administrations, and it has primarily venues for the teaching of Conservative Values to America’s high school, college and university students in their now famed, exciting and sought-after: LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES, to help instill Reagan’s principles in America’s youth! To help carry on Reagan’s Legacy. To present sound arguments to combat untrue dogma and theory such as the latest socialist tendencies and teachings, statements and text books, from the highest levels of our government to grammar, middle and high school students across America.

Bill Clark greeting early dedicated staffers from Office of Governor Reagan, Karen Hanson Munro & Tom Ellick.

After the guests tour the RR Ranch Center, the author & his wife hosted an old-fashioned Western Bar B Que at Rancho Del Cielo on Tuesday, July 13th where, hopefully, Member of the Board of Governor’s for the RR Ranch and former U.S. Secret Service Agent John Barletta, author of “Riding with Reagan,” will speak on his stellar days with President Reagan at the Ranch.

This is a gathering of those who began as young men and women, some just out of high school, who dedicated their time and their lives 24 / 7 to help Ronald Reagan from the dawn of his political career---into the California Governor’s Office---through the “Hiatus years”---all the way to the White House.

Fifty or so members of the 1966 Original Reagan Team, who were able to make the trip to the top of the mountain to RANCHO DEL CIELO. An arduous & sometimes scary ascent. They came from all over the U.S. to attend. This is the famous entrance gate prior to descending a short distance to Lake Lucky & the Ranch House where the largest tax cut in American history was signed.