Ronald Reagan 'had a warmth about him,' Emerson says

Thursday, June 10, 2004

It's not state dinners and speeches that U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson remembers most about former President Ronald Reagan. It's how he embraced her then 2-year-old daughter, Katharine, when she jumped into his arms in the Oval Office in 1985.

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