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Nancy Reagan on What Religion Meant to her Husband

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NANCY REAGAN: He has a deep belief in God and that everything happens for a reason, which we may not understand at the time it happens but that God has a plan for each of us and, you know, you begin to think that really somebody is looking out for him. In Sacramento when he was first sworn in, it was a grey day and as he stepped up to the podium to give his speech, the clouds parted and the sun shone. When he finished, the clouds went back together. The same thing happened in Washington. And after the shooting, the next morning, there was a rainbow over the White House, so and well, just the shooting itself, he said to Cardinal Cook, I know that God was sitting on my shoulder.

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