Members of the Press to Be Given Special Access to Reagan Ranch During Reagan 100 Birthday Events

Jan. 19, 2011 - PRLog -- With the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth is quickly approaching, Young America’s Foundation is proud to announce that the Reagan Ranch and Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California, will be open to select members of the media for a limited time.

President Reagan once said, “No place before or since has ever given Nancy and me the joy and serenity [Rancho del Cielo] does.”  The 688-acre Reagan Ranch plays a unique and important role in Young America’s Foundation’s upcoming celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth.

Reagan biographer Lou Cannon said, “There is more of Ronald Reagan in that Ranch than in all the speeches he ever gave.” President Reagan spent 360 days at the Ranch during his Presidency.  It was there that he signed the largest tax cut in American history on August 13, 1981and hosted world leaders, including Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. But he also went there to refresh and restore his vision, to remind himself of what was important.

Visitors find the heart and soul of Ronald Reagan at his beloved Ranch, preserved just as it was when the Reagans called it home—complete with the President’s books on the shelves in his adobe home, his riding gear in the tack barn, and the telephone-pole fences he built with his own hands.  It’s a place that teaches profound lessons about his faith, patriotism, humility, and character.

Today, Young America’s Foundation uses the Reagan Ranch to inspire and educate young people about Ronald Reagan and his lasting accomplishments. The Foundation also owns and operates the Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara, California, to further reach young audiences with President Reagan’s ideas. This state-of-the-art building, our “Schoolhouse for Reaganism,” includes 22,000 square feet of lecture space, classrooms, a movie-theater, a library of conservative resources, and an education center and state-of-the-art exhibit gallery highlighting President Reagan and his beloved Rancho del Cielo.

           Select members of the media may request a tour of both the Reagan Ranch and Reagan Ranch Center and also to attend portions of Young America’s Foundation’s Reagan 100 Birthday Celebration Weekend, on February 4 and 5. (For more information about Reagan 100 programs, please go to www.yaf.org.)

Vice President Dick Cheney will be the keynote speaker at Young America’s Foundation’s Reagan 100 Birthday Celebration Weekend, addressing the Reagan 100 Dinner Banquet on Saturday, February 5 at the Reagan Ranch Center.

Members of the press interested in covering these events should contact Young America’s Foundation as soon as possible to ensure hotel space and ranch tours are available. Press space is extremely limited.

For further information on this event,or to request press credentials, call Evan Gassman at (800) USA-1776

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Young America’s Foundation is an educational organization promoting conservative ideas on our nation’s campuses through lectures, publications, and conferences. In 1998, Young America’s Foundation saved the Reagan Ranch, and with the Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara, uses it to educate young people about Reagan’s ideas. To learn more, visit www.yaf.org.