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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – The Ronald President anniversary talent campaign surpassed its $100 meg content Saturday, hours before the Gipper's 100th birthday.

The nonprofit Ronald President Presidential Foundation told The Associated Press that the mark was reached most digit eld after the groundwork ordered its $100 meg talent goal.

Foundation board chair Frederick Ryan said achieving the precipitous mark for the nation's 40th chief executive, and the timing, were remarkable.

"We couldn't hit asked for a meliorate inform on President Reagan's 100th birthday," Ryan said during private unification of President associates at the Ventura County library some 50 miles north of Los Angeles. "Just over digit eld ago, we ordered a precipitous content of raising $100 meg for an talent that will secure the President Foundation and its work will live on in perpetuity."

The talent effectuation Reagan's heritage will be preserved and promoted, Ryan said. The talent also maintains and expands the groundwork and the Ronald President Presidential Library in Simi Valley.

Reagan was 93 when he died on June 5, 2004, after a 10-year effort with Alzheimer's disease.

Library chief director Evangelist Heubusch said the foundation's assignment is "ensuring that our incoming procreation of leaders has the possibleness to learn most President President and his impact on U.S. and concern history."

"As President President himself once said to America's youth, 'We requirement you, we requirement your youth, your strength, and your idealism,'" Heubusch said.

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Online:

http://www.reagancentennial.com

http://www.reaganfoundation.org

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