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Did you know ...

• former Texas legislator and motivational speaker Rick Green produced the 1994 video The Legacy of President Ronald Reagan: The Truth About the Eighties?
• future A.B.A. president Loyd Wright represented Mary Pickford in her divorce of Douglas Fairbanks and Jane Wyman against Ronald Reagan?
• billionaire Leonore Annenberg (pictured, left), wife of business magnate Walter Annenberg, was the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1981 to 1982 under President Ronald Reagan?
• at the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Ronald Reagan committed a microphone gaffe when he joked that he had signed legislation to bomb Russia?
• all U.S. Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan ordered glassware from Fostoria Glass Company of Moundsville, West Virginia?
• many churchgoers in the 1920s believed that Ronald Reagan's mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan, had the gift to heal due to her strong belief in the power of prayer?
• on his wife Nancy's birthday, Ronald Reagan would send flowers to his mother-in-law, Edith Luckett Davis, to thank her for giving birth to Nancy?
• the Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford, have included Ronald Reagan and John Betjeman, even though neither had academic links to the college?
• the Ronald Reagan Trail is a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect villages and cities that were of importance to former United States President Ronald Reagan?
• the January 1985 Arctic outbreak delayed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan by an entire day and led to the ceremony being held indoors?
• the Gaylord Building, key to building the I&M Canal, was restored so successfully that Ronald Reagan presented Gaylord Donnelly, millionaire grandson of a former owner, with the President's Award for Historic Preservation?
• the Art Deco Montecito Apartments (pictured) had been the home of Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming a senior citizens' housing project?
• after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, former President Ronald Reagan established the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute to work toward a cure for Alzheimer's?
• William Penn Patrick, founder of companies Holiday Magic and Leadership Dynamics, ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination for Governor of California?
• Ronald Reagan was propelled to stardom playing a double amputee in the 1942 film Kings Row?
• Ronald Reagan's autobiography, An American Life, reached number eight on The New York Times' bestsellers list?
• Ronald Reagan is the only American President to have his diaries published into a best selling book?
• Ronald Reagan announced his engagement to his first wife, Jane Wyman, at the Chicago Theatre (pictured)?
• U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?
• labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984?
• U.S. President Ronald Reagan lived in an apartment on the second floor of the H.C. Pitney Variety Store from 1919 to 1920?
• Rex, Ronald Reagan's pet Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, lived at the White House in a lavish doghouse decorated with framed portraits of the First Family?
• The University of Texas Longhorn Band performed for inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush?
• MV Geysir (pictured) was the center of a series of international incidents that involved Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Ken Starr, Elizabeth Dole, George Schultz and Ronald Reagan?
• Grits Gresham, the former host of ABC's The American Sportsman, revealed that Ronald Reagan used a gun to rescue a nurse from a mugging?
• Brad Johnson, the deputy Lofty Craig on the western TV series Annie Oakley, portrayed one of six unnamed students in Ronald Reagan's 1951 film Bedtime for Bonzo?
• 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan was born in an apartment above a 19th century commercial building (pictured) in downtown Tampico, Illinois?