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    'Movie Nights with the Reagans,' a new memoir

    Mar 03, 2018 4 minutes

    As a spokesman, adviser, and speechwriter to former President Ronald Reagan, Mark Weinberg spent countless weekends with the Reagans at the Aspen lodge at Camp David where the pastime of choice was watching iconic movies from the 1980s. Mr. Weinberg, who has just released his memoir, “Movie Nights with the Reagans,” gives readers a seat on the couch next the president and first lady as they laughed, cried, and were moved to action by some of Hollywood’s most famous blockbusters.

    The author spoke with the Monitor about his impressionable moments from those movie-watching days.

    What do we need to know about President Reagan, as a person and a historical figure, and what does his choice of films

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