Former Secretary of State James Baker, and former First Lady Nancy Reagan were on hand in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall this morning to unveil a statue of the nation’s 40th President. Ronald Reagan, who was perhaps the biggest champion of small government in the last 25 years, will now stand ensconced in bronze among other national heroes like Dwight D. Eisenhower, Samuel Adams and Sam Houston.
The President’s statue was commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and sits atop a three foot tall marble pedestal containing a piece of the Berlin Wall. Each state is allowed two statues in the Nation’s Capitol. Reagan’s statue replaces that of the Rev. Thomas Starr King, “a Unitarian Universalist minister who helped persuade the Golden State to stay in the Union during the Civil War.”
President Reagan passed away five years ago after an extended battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
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