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04/30/2004 Archived Entry: "Nancy vetoes 'Ronald Reagan University'"

Posted by steve @ 03:04 PM EST [Link]

NO TO REAGAN UNIVERSITY: Nancy Reagan has announced that she will not permit a new university in Colorado to carry her husband's name.

Organizers wanted to name a proposed 10,000-student university after the former president, but his wife issued a statement Thursday effectively killing the idea.

"We do not support the creation of a separate university," she said.

Federal law gives former presidents or their spouses final say over the use of the president's name as long as either is alive, said Terry Walker, the founding president of the university.

I'm shocked but I understand her reasoning. Still, that would have been one heck of a tribute.

Read on.

Replies: 2 comments

It's okay to name an airport after the man but not an university?

Posted by Cody @ 04/30/2004 04:36 PM EST

I supported naming the airport and the aircraft carrier after Reagan, but I think the whole "Reagan Legacy Project" has gotten a little bit out of hand. I don't think the Gipper would want everything named after him as if he were some Third World dictator. I can therefore understand why Nancy and the family have started to come out against some of these proposals.

Posted by W. James Antle III @ 05/01/2004 02:00 PM EST