cut: Messages, flags, flowers and jelly beans adorn an impromptu memorial to late former President Ronald Reagan at the funeral home where his body lies in Santa Monica, Calif., Sunday, June 6, 2004. Reagan died Saturday, June 5, 2004, at the age of 93. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
June 7, 2004
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June 7, 2004 9 p.m.
Nation to give Reagan a grand goodbye
WASHINGTON — He was never particularly at home in Washington. He believed big government was the bane of the nation, and he preferred weekends at Camp David in the Maryland mountains to the whirl of the capital.