Washington prepares to say a final goodbye to President Ronald Reagan, who died over the weekend. In solemn tribute, his casket will be transferred to a caisson and then make its way to the Capitol where it will lie in state until Friday.
Among those scheduled to speak at the memorial service is Vice-President Cheney. Thousands of mourners are expected to pay their respects.
Hear voices from the service and from some of the country’s top presidential historians and Reagan-watchers over his long career.
Guests:
Alan Lichtman, presidential historian, professor of history at The American University
Steven Hayward, senior fellow, the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980″
Michael Schaller, historian at the University of Arizona and author of “Reckoning With Reagan, America and its President in the 1980s.”
