The Gipper Gradually Shunned Spotlight

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LOS ANGELES - The day George H.W. Bush took over the Oval Office in 1989, the Gipper returned to Reagan Country beaming with an aw- shucks smile and dreams of chopping wood and riding his horse at his mountaintop ranch.

"There's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse," the nation's 40th chief executive said at the time, repeating an oft-quoted phrase.

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The Gipper Gradually Shunned Spotlight

Ronald Reagan basked in the glory of retirement, but then the slow death of Alzheimer's disease robbed the life of the former president and he became a recluse under the protection of his wife and caregiver, Nancy.

He filled his first pos...

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