Diary Entry - 09/06/1988
Key Facts
President Reagan attends the Dedication of the Garold C. J. and Marie Gray Center for the Communication Arts at Hastings College.
President Reagan travels to Louisville KY, and addresses the National Convention of the American Legion.
A twenty-five-hour drama begins as technical problems keep a two-man Soviet space crew from returning to Earth aboard a Soyuz space capsule.
On my way to Marine 1 at 8:30. Nancy doesn’t leave til 10 A.M. She’ll be doing some errands in L.A. & Phoenix & wont be coming to Wash. until Thurs. the 8th.
At Point Mugu I boarded A.F.1 & was off to Hastings College in Hastings Neb. The C. J. & Marie Gray Center for the Communications Arts at the college was being dedicated. They were the parents of Bob Gray. I spoke & then was given an honorary degree of Dr. of Communication. Following this I mixed with about 50 of the college officials for awhile. The ceremony was outdoors & about 20,000 in the crowd. Gov. Kay Orr introduced me. Back to the plane but addressed a group in a hangar 1st—a fund raiser for David Karnes.
Then on to Louisville Ky. where I addressed the Nat. Convention of the Am. Legion—8000 people. All went well and after the usual photos I was on my way to Wash. arriving there (or here) at 9:25 P.M. And so to bed—but in the A.M. I’m going to raise a holler. My box with all my cuff links & tie tacks etc. is missing.
