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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (57049)	10/4/1999 5:12:00 PM
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Too good for just any "tin Lizzie", maybe we should chip in and get one for ours: Ronald Reagan Honored With Special License Plate Reuters Photo LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan has an airport and library named after him, plus buildings across America and a park in Warsaw, Poland -- and now he has his own California auto license plate, featuring a picture of ''Dutch'' wearing a cowboy hat. ''I'm really pretty excited about this,'' former first lady Nancy Reagan said Monday at a ceremony in Los Angeles where California Gov. Gray Davis signed into law a bill authorizing the new plates. ''I can't wait to get out and get my license plate,'' she added. But wait she must, for although Davis signed the bill it does not take effect until Jan. 1 -- and there are already 10,000 eager Californians who applied for the tags before her. Mrs. Reagan said her husband, a two-term president and two-term governor of California, considered himself a Californian even though he was born in Tampico, Illinois. ''It is so great that he is being honored in this way. I know he would be so happy,'' she said. Asked what she thought of the picture of a smiling ''Dutch'' Reagan wearing a white cowboy hat, Mrs. Reagan replied, ''I like it. I like it.'' Reagan, 88, who was governor of California from 1967 to 1974, and served as president from 1981 to 1988, is suffering from Alzheimer's disease and has not appeared in public for several years. During the bipartisan ceremony -- Davis is a Democrat, Reagan is a Republican and the bill was authored by a Republican -- Davis praised Reagan, saying, ''For 35 years Ronnie has been a towering figure in Californian and national politics. He seemed larger than life, but he was very much down to earth.'' Money raised by the sale of the license plates, which will cost motorists $50 more than regular plates, will go to support educational exhibits at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Some lawmakers and law enforcement agencies have criticized the proliferation of specialized license plates, which have raised $36.7 million for various organizations since the California Legislature first approved them in 1993, and Davis said the Reagan plate might be the last. ''We are setting a very high standard. In future, if you have served two terms as California governor and two terms as president of the United States then you qualify for a special plate, but not unless,'' he quipped. dailynews.yahoo.com